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The city needs to do a better job with youths especially with the young African American population. Help these kids with some sort of job skills or some sort, tell these kids to pull up their pants and do not wear fitted caps inside public buildings or places of whorship.
The city needs to do a better job with youths especially with the young African American population. Help these kids with some sort of job skills or some sort, tell these kids to pull up their pants and do not wear fitted caps inside public buildings or places of whorship.
The city needs to do a better job with youths especially with the young African American population. Help these kids with some sort of job skills or some sort, tell these kids to pull up their pants and do not wear fitted caps inside public buildings or places of whorship.
It is a bit like dealing with addicts or alcoholics. They will not change until they want to and/or are "ready" - whatever that means.
All of the jobs in the world will not change that. The kids who do show up, for jobs and tutoring or whatever else, will make it anyway. There is usually some sort of good parenting involved. The really problem kids do not show up except if ordered by some program, or in order to create some disturbance or another.
And because of that the burden should be laid at the feet of NYC tax payers?
More importantly, perhaps, increasingly, it will not be put to the taxpayers.
By implication, people will be expected to take charge of their children, to refrain from having them, or they and their children will be managed to mitigate their impact on everyone else.
There are growing indications that this is the case and that it will be more so in the future.
the only problem I have with the story is the amount of times the officers shot Gray. There was no reason to shoot him so many times. .
The police are TRAINED to shoot to kill. Not to wound.
Makes sense. This kid got what he deserved.
He foolishly pointed a loaded gun at them.
What were they supposed to do? Hit him in the leg?
The ones telling a very different story than the cops version all have cell phones, why didn't someone record the cops chasing Grey. Was it OK the kid was walking around the neighborhood with a gun, apparently so. The girl with the cell phone glued to her head never mentioned anything about the kid being armed while talking to the reporter. That quote by one of the residents about shooting the kids down like dogs shows the level of denial people seem to have about who's to blame for neighborhood violence.
The occupy wall streeters are fully taking advantage of the whole thing, whatever the truth is.
Interestingly, such people NEVER investigate things like blatant landlord/developer abuses of low-income tax break packages, for example, which are far more damning for those very people they loudly "champion" in the long run.
I laughed out loud when I saw the single "tenant issue" with which they involved themselves in Harlem. There are plenty of actual and egregiously horrific stories. But they chose a crazy and destructive woman who is busily bringing down her entire HDFC because she feels entitled to free housing.
There is a facebook page and many have appeared there: https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForKimaniGray
Many cries of "solidarity" and "respect" and effusive apologies for being white and "privileged." Always the tone of a missing accessory, "If only I had been born poor ... I would be so much COOLER ..."
What a sorry world it is.
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