I’ve been meaning to write more about the 40 Day Fast here, but my work schedule over the last couple weeks has been so crazy (90 hours last week) that I haven’t had the chance. So here’s another post, finally.
Andrew Osenga is today’s blogger, and he draws attention to the Dalit in India. He writes:
I got to travel to India a few years ago with Caedmon’s to write and record an album based on stories of the Dalit.
The first night of our trip was in Mumbai, formerly Bombay, and we stayed in a hotel called the Leela. It was nice, very nice, actually. And down the street was a really nice Hyatt. In between them was a big garbage heap, and over a hundred people living in it. Children were living in it. Children were living in the garbage right outside my window. And somehow I still went to sleep.
We were just surrounded by incredible oppression. It’s not just poverty. Poverty is when no one has anything. Oppression is when one of the richest countries in the world has over half of its people living in poverty.