I am having a hard time as I watch the Democratic convention wrestling rhetoric from reality.  As speaker after speaker talks about fairness, inclusiveness and opportunities for all, my thoughts go to the 500 or so men who each night sleep at the Task Force Peachtree Pine Center. 

We supposedly have a progressive Democratic Mayor here in Atlanta who has gone out of her way to cut off state funding to help these people and to interfere in additional local and federal funding.  It turns my stomach to hear the talk when I see the reality.  Who is looking out for these people and thousands like them? Is it just concerned citizens like me?  Where is John Lewis whose history should make him a champion for Peachtree-Pine's residents?  How are we to care, aid and empower thousands of people who sit homeless on our streets or in our shelters to be contributing members of an inclusive society if nobody acts or cares?