“We marched for fair housing, and now we have homelessness…”

Today, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) begins its annual convention in Milwaukee. A couple of days ago, Reuters published an article interviewing civil rights leaders in Milwaukee. Click here to read article.

Many are quoted as saying that the civil rights struggle decades ago fought against legalized discrimination. However, today they are “held hostage by today’s crime and poverty.”

There is an interesting quote by a Milwaukee community activist named George Martin, “We marched for fair housing, and now we have homelessness…” Although fair housing laws were passed in 1968 in order to stop housing discrimination, they didn’t stop homelessness.

Clearly, more must be done.