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“We really had a close netted structure to rely on for anything, you could have gone by anyone house and get something to eat. Whatever they were eating, they would’ve fed you, and all the mothers would’ve treated you just like they treated their own. What the gang also did, it provided some level of protection for a lot of the working adults in the neighborhood. They knew that their houses were safe, when they went out to work and didn’t have to worry about anyone breaking in to their homes. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members”

Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“I’m not lookin’ to be anybody’s keeper. What I say and do is meant to protect me. If it works for somebody else, that’s okay, but I don’t want people depending on me to save them.”

Protect Protection Keeper Brother S Keeper

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“Collaboration is generally the least valued and most haphazardly executed aspect of teachers' pedagogy, and some entire schools are being built around individualization and specialization. When we then ask students to, in effect, be their brother's keeper, many understandably have no idea what comes next. And this is where we, as teachers, must have more to offer than a day-one 'abracadabra!”

Collaboration Teachers Individualization Brother S Keeper

Book:Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

Source: Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom