Re: 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> << 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)