Dear President Obama,
I am sure you have visited us here, at some time, in downtown San Jose, but I wonder if you got a chance to walk the streets here and glimpse the faces this city tries to hide, ignore, and forget. I do not allow myself to not see them. These are the faces of the thousands, NO EXAGGERATION! of the homeless men, women, and children that are only just surviving here. There was something written once, long ago, that I believe you must be familiar with. "We are all created equal"! As such we are supposedly granted the same, EACH ONE OF US, the right to SAFE housing, food, water, and entitled to employment to help us meet these needs. Now, you and your family are in your safe house secure and blessed with much. I would remind you, now that we have elected you, that you not forget any of us, who through that vote became your extended family. There are so many of us that for so many years have fought for equal rights for us all, that have brought us to this time, this moment, to embrace with joy our first African-American President. Now, I ask you to ensure all our rights as well.
It is hard to look into the hungry eyes of women and children. To see the loss of dignity in the eyes of men and women who can not find employment and, in what seems like a blink of an eye, have lost everything that was home and security to them. But, it is harder knowing that so many people choose to look away. PLEASE, do not be one of them.
I pray that one day soon, I could walk down the streets of everywhere USA, and instead find a look of joy and prosperity for everyone instead of just the seemingly entitled few.
I thank you for your time and consideration.
With sincerest felicitations,
Somona W. Pond
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