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“Mostly they all were products of single parents, and in the most tragic category - black boys, with no particular criminal inclinations but whose very lack of direction put them in the crosshairs of the world.”

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Book:The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
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“No one wakes up and says they want to be a gangbanger or a drug dealer- that's the last stop on the train. That what you do when you're drowning and reaching out for something- anything- to survive. By the time they get to the corner, there has been a series of things that led to that decision. No one wakes up at the top of the mountain and decides they would like it better down there on the bottom. They end up there out of desperation. We don't spend enough time examining the wider picture, the steps that get them there. We don't tell that part of the story. And to tell half the story is to spread a lie.”

SurvivalPrisonJailDesperationIncarcerationCriminal Justice SystemBlack CommunityBlack YouthJuvenile Justice System
Book:Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
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