Marco Barnes Jr on Homelessness

Marco Barnes Jr

Marco Barnes Jr

on Homelessness
Rating: Matters
First rated: February 14, 2026
Last updated: March 10, 2026
Quote: "Homelessness matters. Part of what I do is, I give so much of what I make to homeless situations. I'm actually getting to the point now where I'm actually gonna start going overseas and doing some things in Africa that are really near and dear to my heart, because I've been blessed. So, when I was almost homeless, like I said, there was somebody there, a community that helped me. And I think that as a society, you'd be surprised, a lot of people aren't looking for a handout. They're looking for a hand up. There's people who are homeless. Not because of anything they've done wrong. I mean, the 2008 crash is a great example of that. I wasn't a bad person, it's just the economy tanked and the career I was in got totally revamped and tanked on itself and had to be rebuilt. It wasn't because I was a bad person, wasn't because I wasn't out there trying to pay my bills every day, so that old saying, you know, bad things happen to good people. There are people that are homeless that are through no fault of their own, it's just circumstance. But because of where they're at, they don't get looked at. People don't try to offer them assistance or people look down on them because they are in that situation, which is why, and look, this is no slight to the Seattle fishing industry. They cater to that. They take those guys who are at the shelter left, right, and center all the time. Why? Because they know these guys have nowhere else to go. So you're gonna put a guy on a fishing boat and he's gonna think, Hey, I got a bed to sleep in at least, because he had no other options. I think as a society, the more we have to help each other, I would not be where I am, as I keep saying, if it were not for the community around me. The people that help me, and like I said, that doesn't always mean family. But I've got good people that are around me that have helped me. Allowed me to grow and continue to pour into me so that I can pour into others."