Quentin Talley describes poverty on the wrong side of the tracks, where systemic racism and a generational wealth gap crush families of four. Children absorb the psychological toll while schools, courts, and social workers fail to protect them. He calls for society to finally see and help the kids who will become our future.
Welcome, welcome to the other side of the tracks where access to resources are in lack and the facts are blurred in between the theme of the American dream and living in poverty, constantly chasing paper to make ends meet, paying the fare towards prosperity, but the toll weighs one down when you're swimming full throttle to keep your head above water. Welcome to the other side of the tracks where access to resources are in lack and the facts are blurred in between the theme of the American dream and living in poverty, constantly chasing paper to make ends meet, paying the fare towards prosperity, but the toll weighs one down when you're swimming full throttle to keep your head Head above water, trying to make a way where you can. To provide a family of 4 daily bread, to stay above the line, working to achieve economic opportunity, 'cause cash rules everything around me. And in order to succeed, it's enough to drive one insane for that dollar, dollar bill, y'all. And it lessens life complications. A generational wealth gap, enough to drive one downward like a spiral, struggling for survival, straining senses when racism and systematic oppression fuse into the root of these issues, a clear division in the matrix. But in reality, We deny and dismiss grown folk when we perceive that they're not strong enough to deal. So what do we put in the stake of the children's future in need? Are we ignoring how they feel? Believe the young are built to forget? Thinking the outcome won't relieve the traumatic experience? But little humans bleed too. And when change interrupts and cuts like the wind on a winter day, who will take heed to their needs? Will it be a school therapist already outnumbered? Or a juvenile justice system ready to punish? Or family courts or social workers with too many cases? We must take action and care about a child, what a child faces, no matter the creed. Today, will you take heed? For they, for they are the future indeed. Or will you bury the truth to appease your assumptions? Or will you acknowledge the problem so a child can adjust until it's back in a healthy function, a healthy environment? It's up to us to take action, for they are the future and their feelings Are important. I ask you today, will you take heed to a child's need? For they are the future indeed.
