Current Events > California teen commits suicide after being bullied for being homeless

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In the immediate aftermath of the shit show presidential election, speculation began about California governor Gavin Newsoms will he/wont he (he will) 2028 national run. At the same time, another somber story hit California that dragged us all back to the very dark reality were already living in. Its a story that symbolizes everything wrong with the state that California progressives like Newsom, London Breed, Karen Bass, Scott Weiner, and other heavy hitters have handcrafted. A 14 year old boy in Santa Clara named Jose Emiliano Zamora died by suicide after relentless bullying by his classmates and football teammates for being homeless.

They were spitting on him, hitting him on the back of the helmet, the boys father Jose Bautista told KTVU.
"He was trying to make me happy. He was trying to be a better child."

"It's kind of hard," he said. "I just don't want this to happen to other people like it happened to me."
If Newsome and company have their way it very well could.

Like tens of thousands of families across the Golden State, Joses family had been evicted from their home after Covid eviction moratoriums expired. With no social housing or safety net to hold the family up, that eviction led him to seek refuge in a youth shelter. His familys GoFundMe for his burial costs is currently funded at nearly $150,000. I wonder what life would be like for Jose if that community action and empathy had been put into action a week ago? Jose and his family might have had a home to call their own. He might still be alive.

We know now about his life because it ended in tragedy, but for so many others in his position its a story of a more routine daily suffering.

I have met hundreds of children like Jose on the streets of Los Angeles while handing out supplies with the volunteer group KtownForAll. Children whose parents were sick or injured, and so couldnt pay rent for a month or two, that have been evicted more times in their short lives than theyve seen a doctor. Young children who have run away from abusive foster home care that many youth on the street deem worse than homelessness. Babies sweltering in tents with mothers who fled domestic violence. All of them with nowhere to go. All denied shelter beds because there arent enough. All trying their best to go to school. All on wait lists for housing or vouchers that are ten to twenty years out. All destined to be thoroughly judged by society and the courts for what theyll have to do to survive. On top of something so simple for most students, like finding a pencil for the day, theyre also facing the ever militarizing boot of the Progressive government of Los Angeles on their necks. With the passage of municipal code 41.18, the city has banned all tents and car dwelling 500 feet from schools, clinics, libraries, fire departments etc., with zero thought to the fact that there are currently 17,245 homeless children enrolled in LAUSD schools. Children that might need to live in a tent or car close to their schools. Children that might want to stay close to a library to access homework help and social services.

Joses tragic death is not an individual aberration, its the natural culmination of the well-funded campaign of dehumanization supported and exalted by the aforementioned California Progressive government, a complicit media, and the supposed liberal voters of the state (who among other things just rejected a measure that would have banned forced prison labor, aka slavery). Its a campaign to redirect fault from where it belongs, the real estate investors dripping in blood money, to people that for a million common reasons cannot keep up with their sky high rents.
It works like this: The adults teach the youth to worship wealth as a sign of intelligence and goodness. Parents talk about people with no housing as a terrifying plague to be dealt with, not as loved ones, neighbors and friends to be helped, all in the name of protecting children. Local news runs article after article reporting on homelessness as a threat to public health and safety, implicitly and explicitly blaming them for everything. (In stories like these a persons lack of housing is always announced in bold before any alleged crime.) And to top if all off, mayors, and even the governor, the champion fighter of the Democratic cause, use their bully pulpit to further harm those that dont have a place to live. On Newsoms official website he proudly shares pictures of himself front and center personally throwing away the belongings of people during a sweep in Los Angeles as part of his announcement of almost $200 million dollars to directly fund more sweeps.

Much to the surprise of anyone who works in schools, social services, public housing, or any industry helping the poor, he made it clear that cities do in fact have plenty of money to address homelessness, just by hurting people instead of helping them. Meanwhile officials deny the reality that there are not enough shelter beds or other social housing options for all of those who find themselves without a home each night in our state. To house the sick, vulnerable and poor is overall unprofitable. (As Luke wrote recently in Hell World, killing people is easy and saving them is hard). Instead, they reinforce the false narrative that a majority of these people without a place to live choose to be there, and that the housed people who have to look at them are the ones suffering the real harm.

People thought this scumbag could become the nominee?

This shit is so sad, bullies should face serious consequences when this happens

MC_BatCommander posted...

bullies should face serious consequences when this happens

agreed.

MC_BatCommander posted...

This shit is so sad, bullies should face serious consequences when this happens

Manslaughter charges at the least

The single MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE of the US which is the root of a hundred other problems and politicians dont touch the subject. Hell Trump probably won by people thinking homes would be more affordable under him. And people chose the billionaire real estate tycoon.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Hell Trump probably won by people thinking homes would be more affordable under him

They will be.

For rich people who get to buy up massive swaths of housing to play slumlord.

People prepared to communally fund a child's funeral costs, but baulk at helping to provide the basics that would have kept him alive.

Because that would have been socialism.

Dynedux posted...

Manslaughter charges at the least

Anything but murder charges are insufficient

There are more than enough known cases of what bullying does to the victims at this point that it is always attempting to lead to death

ai123 posted...

People prepared to communally fund a child's funeral costs, but baulk at helping to provide the basics that would have kept him alive.

Because that would have been socialism.

giving to charity gives people the warm and fuzzies though

taxes are evil!

Intro2Logic posted...

. . . On Newsoms official website he proudly shares pictures of himself front and center personally throwing away the belongings of people during a sweep in Los Angeles as part of his announcement of almost $200 million dollars to directly fund more sweeps

I guess Newsom >> Trump but

in my state which no one touts as salvation, We made collective bargaining legal and we have not made it illegal to be homeless: leavING lots of room for improvement.

Sounds like California is to the right of Illinois.

In all fairness mayors have thrownout homeless but always no-wotnesses.

MC_BatCommander posted...

This shit is so sad, bullies should face serious consequences when this happens

Creating an environment where homelessness is stigmatized is about 100 times worse than bullying.

That person in the first post is somehow finding a way to blame progressives and not the bullies. Wtf

Zikten posted...

That person in the first post is somehow finding a way to blame progressives and not the bullies. Wtf

Yeah, wtf. progressive policies are the ones that would've helped his situation.

Each of those bullies should be imprisoned without parole for a minimum of 15 years.

MC_BatCommander posted...

This shit is so sad, bullies should face serious consequences when this happens

Since they are all likely under 16 nothing will be done to punish them outside of school punishments.

02fran posted...

Yeah, wtf. progressive policies are the ones that would've helped his situation.

California is HORRIBLE with building housing. NIMBYism is an utter nightmare and the cities are corrupt shitshows that constantly line the pockets of joke 'nonprofits' that are fronts for criminals to pocket the money.

The permits to build are insanely labyrinthine, barely granted, and rents get jacked up. The one way to actually solve homelessness is building housing and getting people in housing. California can, but the state just straight up won't. This isn't even an issue you can blame on Republicans. Dems hold full power there.

LightSnake posted...

California is HORRIBLE with building housing. NIMBYism is an utter nightmare and the cities are corrupt shitshows that constantly line the pockets of joke 'nonprofits' that are fronts for criminals to pocket the money.

The permits to build are insanely labyrinthine, barely granted, and rents get jacked up. The one way to actually solve homelessness is building housing and getting people in housing. California can, but the state just straight up won't. This isn't even an issue you can blame on Republicans. Dems hold full power there.

That doesn't sound like an issue specifically with progressives though. Blaming progressives for this is like blaming Biden for poor economy.

02fran posted...

That doesn't sound like an issue specifically with progressives though. Blaming progressives for this is like blaming Biden for poor economy.

its not

LightSnake posted...

its not

which sentence are you referring to?