en who have seen someone been shot right in front of their face wondering if its their father, children who long to be sanitation workers, and children who die everyday. The lives of these children almost seem lost with depression, drugs, and death all around them. As we see, there are little sparks of light in most of these children's eyes, sparks of light that show just how innocent and intellectual they really are.Mott Haven seems like a place that no one could even imagine existing. A place so distant from most peoples reality that it could only exist in a Spike Lee film. A government owned ghetto that people are just thrown into when the don't fit into normal society. A place that can be shunned and feared and easy to get away from simply by shutting a newspaper. One would think that the resources necessary to get these people back on their feet would be available but we see that they aren't. Children still die from falling into faulty elevators, people die from having to wait 4 days in a hospital corridor just to receive treatment, fires occur on a daily basis, rats are like a family pet when not gnawing on a defenseless baby for the third time, soup kitchens are filled to capacity and many are denied services that are long overdue such as food stamps. Discrimination and prejudice are so prevalent, you would think that the state of New York would want to do something. Why do these people get overlooked? One form of prejudice that I couldn't help but noticing was the medical waste incinerator built on Locust Avenue. Originally it was going to built in another part of New York, but when parents complained of cancer worries they decided to build in Mott Haven, despite the protest of the parents there. It seems as if they didn't even care about the welfare of these people, these people can get cancer because they're already "unclean". The people of Mott Haven, as seen in Jean Kilbourne's discussion "Deadly Persuasions", ...
