AMERICA’S  UNKNOWN PART OF SOCIETY, TODAY OUR GOVERNMENT’S LACK OF COMPASSION & SUPPORT.

     ” Whether From Mental Illness, Substance Abuse, Unemployment, Or Just Lack Of Education, No-Matter The Cause,  There Is Little Or No Help Available For Over One Million People Living Within Our Nation Today, The Homeless. 

APRIL 30, 2021: COMMENTARY BY: Englebrook Independent News;

     Yesterday while filming for a docuseries to be released in September 2021. We traveled to Philadelphia’s Kensington Avenue, known today as Skid Row. Although, while filming throughout numerous cities within the tri-state area, we had come to witness first hand the many causes and struggles that the homeless face everyday. The encounter we experienced yesterday was beyond realm of normal comprehension.

     Upon arriving on Kensington Avenue, the landscape and streets were littered with trash, used syringes along with empty narcotics packaging, there was no place in sight that was clean. The catastrophic carnage was yet to come.

     We entered the park, surrounding the Free Public Library, reaching the top of the steps, we witnessed  hundreds of individuals, injecting narcotics in plain view. Individuals passed out,

others that possible were on the verge of overdosing. The most horrific, were the individuals walking in a catatonic state every where you could see. No matter what you may have seen, in any television or Hollywood production, nothing could prepare 

you for what we experienced yesterday. Although we are ashamed to say, you need to know, that within our society, for what ever reason you may believe, there are the walking dead that live among us. 

     From the inception of Englebrook Independent News. Together with Englebrook Media Group, we made not only a promise to ourselves , but a commitment that

we would report the facts and bring to you the reality that our nation is facing each day.

     Exactly 5.3 miles from Independence Hall. Where our Founding Father’s on August 2, 1776 signed The Declaration of Independence, making the United States and the citizens of such free from the rule of another. We can only wonder how our Founders would feel 245 years later if they could see what has transpired in our nation today. We can only imagine their expression of horror they might have exhibited walking on Kesington Avenue on their way to Independence Hall, witnessing what we experienced yesterday.

     No matter if you are Republican, Democrat, or whatever political affiliation you maybe, it’s apparent that our elected officials exhibit

any compassion for individuals that are afflicted with various issues causing them to become and remain homeless. 

     Although we only had a short segment to film, we ended up spending six hours on Skid Row. During that time, we talked with individuals that were semi coherent, listening to their heartfelt stories, of how they ended up in their present situation. Though the stories may have varied, one issue that never swayed, was there was no real programs available to them, to escape the internecine circumstances that has become everyday life for them.

     Today, while President Biden has traveled to Philadelphia promoting his new 2.25 trillion dollar infrastructure plan. To expand our nation’s present rail systems. Touting, “that our roads and bridges and  rails are not republican nor democrat but are in great need of repair.” One thing we know for sure, Biden will not travel along Skid Row, on his way back to Philadelphia’s International Airport. Once again turning a blind to what’s really happening today.

     Since our elected officials do not seem to care about the well being of so many within our society. Maybe it’s time, for all of us to extend a helping hand in order to save their lives, from the daily misery and horror they endure. We have to realize that an individual does not wake up one morning and say ” I Want To Be Homeless.”