Some defenders of the holiday season say that it enables families to come
together. That's part of my point. Why does it take the holidays for people
to meet - or for other people, in more privileged positions, to arrange for
poor families to get together? 

Consider the holiday celebrants who give 'to the hungry' or 'the needy' or
'the less fortunate', but only at Christmas. 

Why do these people bother giving at all? 
- From obligation, due to religious or cultural pressures? If yes, surely
they must see the hypocrisy! 
- To feel good about themselves? This suggests that such feeling can be bought.
- From guilt, because they have so much and others so little? If so, then
why give just once a year?

Here's what my community would like to tell these people: We are not here to
absolve your conscience. We do not want your gifts.

Shocking, isn't it? How dare we! 

We dare. We dare challenge a system that enables positions of privilege for
some and imposes bottom-of-the-food-chain status on the rest. 

Ocean, WISE Coordinator
http://www.wise-bc.org/

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