Hyperreal Film Club
Jesus Lost out to Prostitutes
RECEIVED Fri., Oct. 26, 2007
Dear Editor,
I have bigger hopes that Ms. Toby Futrell will take a fair and comprehensive approach to the solicitation ban, now that Jennifer Kim suspended it [“Naked City,” News, Oct. 26], and apply the near-school criteria of panhandling to a group of prostitutes that pester immigrants in my barrio almost every day. We see them at dawn, while students board school buses, and they hang out all day in full view of families with children till early evening. They exhibit some mental health problems and look dirty. Short raggedy skirts and low cuts reveal beat-up flesh, but they still hold a pathetic coquetry to passersby, sometimes showing black eyes or bloody lips. If this is the American people, the American dream, or the American whatever, I'm confused about the Austin City Council, the Austin Archdiocese, and every black preacher out there. I think Jesus lost out big time.
I have bigger hopes that Ms. Toby Futrell will take a fair and comprehensive approach to the solicitation ban, now that Jennifer Kim suspended it [“Naked City,” News, Oct. 26], and apply the near-school criteria of panhandling to a group of prostitutes that pester immigrants in my barrio almost every day. We see them at dawn, while students board school buses, and they hang out all day in full view of families with children till early evening. They exhibit some mental health problems and look dirty. Short raggedy skirts and low cuts reveal beat-up flesh, but they still hold a pathetic coquetry to passersby, sometimes showing black eyes or bloody lips. If this is the American people, the American dream, or the American whatever, I'm confused about the Austin City Council, the Austin Archdiocese, and every black preacher out there. I think Jesus lost out big time.
Paul Aviña