if what other people have posted is true and you and your family have been assaulted where you live more than once, why you are still living there?
Only now that he has been so viciously attcked, have the housing peple tken notice, he has been trying to get out for a long time due to the unsanitory conditions and lack of safety, important things like a window that wont shut & a toilet tht doesnt flush and a constantly leaking roof ... these thinngs have not been inportnat in the past as far as his landlords are concerned, now he has been given options to move but this can take several months
The social worker gave him leaflets on wat to do as a refugee for crying out loud! He is a US citizen, none of it applies to him
Michael is in real danger of becning an agorophobic through all of this, he is frightened, whether the attacker was black or white, the end result would be the same, he is afraid to go out of the house ... yet these ppl are still alowed to torment him daily, none of the agencies are being particularly helpful, your system is just diabolical and if it were me in his istuation I would feel the same, no matter who my attacker was.
Who are you and why exactly are you speaking for " Michael" ?
This is weird in and of itself
So now we know that " Michael" lives in a shit hole and can't afford to move because, well who knows why, but because of those reasons it's the systems fault?
Here is an idea. Don't be an asshole to other people and maybe you won't get your ass kicked. I know, I know, it seems like a radical idea but it's worked before on studies that have been conducted on rats.
But maybe " michael" won't like this idea and will stay where he's at and just keep getting more of the same.
If all else fails " Michael" could try and sue someone, like maybe the landlord, or better yet, someone involved in government. Yeah, that sounds like it might work!
I'm sorry I didnt log in, that was my post above - Exhausted.
I am speaking for Michael (which is his real name incidentally) because he is not getting his point across through sheer frustration and anger and pain
he did not piss anyone off in order to be beaten in such a brutal manner, okay I wasn't there of course but he is not that type of person....he has had many years of hell from these peope and maybe he did bite back, everyone has a tolerance level that only goes so far, his has been we & truly stretched, this was the final straw.
Yes you're right, government intervention and suing the landlords is underway, but that does not take away what has happened to him already - the damage has been done mentally
As for why society has let him down, oh if only you knew! He should have been taken out of that shit hole years ago, this was just waiting to happen, the reason his mother had bleach thrown in her face is because he complianed to the landlord about the constant harrassment day & night, the banging on the doors, the death threats, the constant mental torture (a bit like living in a program for a kid I guess) yet no-one took any notice.
A social worker who gives a US citizen advice on how to be housed as a refugee is a small example of how your system sucks, the fact that only non whites can pull the race card is another example when this was clearly a racial attack - Michael is not anti black, he is anti black person smashing his head in, as he would be anti anyone smashing his head in.