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walter, don't you think it's time we talked?
A few years ago, there was a well-meaning, naive white woman just like you,
Iris, that thought she was helping such "disadvantaged youth" by giving them jobs helping to renovate abandoned houses in the inner city. They raped and murdered her in one of the old houses, robbing her of her money, taking her credit cards and stealing her car for a joyride. So much for trying to rehabilitate the criminally insane and trying to "bridge the gap". Welcome to the real world. Iris Cohen wrote in message ... that number of African-American males of that age have a criminal record involving violent crime and have made themselves unhirable for life because they mistakenly thought it would be cool to be "gangstas". Who's fault is that? Let's not play the blame game. There is enough fault in both the black community and the country as a whole to go around. I was just pointing out one of the facts in the "us versus them" dilemma that the original writer was describing. The community has a choice. You can continue to blame "them," drug users, minorities, mentally ill, the homeless, etc., or you can choose to do some little thing to bridge the gap. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train." Robert Lowell (1917-1977) |
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