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Chapter 38
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The most indescribable and distressing suffering I have met is that which
befalls the children whose experiences of depravation and crime help to mold and cripple their minds and
entire being for life.
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Not only those forced to imitate begging dogs to
survive the violence of our system....... |
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- or those trying to get a penny polishing our car
windows.......
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- but even more those children whom we directly
murder with our negative thinking about them which they already in
early childhood have so internalized that they are convinced they
have no future. |
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What impression does it make on children when they experience their
sisters and brothers being shot and killed in the street?
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When I was teaching a
school class in Harlem I discovered that there was not a single one of the
pupils who had not experienced shoot-outs in the streets, where bullets hit
even the most innocent child.
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They refused to believe that I came from a country
with no guns. "How do people defend themselves?" they would ask.
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And
what impression does it make on a young mother to have to say farewell to her
four-year-old son in a world in which it is hard to tell the difference between
a cradle and a coffin?
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Come and see how well despair
is seasoned by the stifling air. |
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See your ghetto in the good old
sizzling summer time. |
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Suppose the streets were all on fire,
the flames like tempers leaping higher, |
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suppose you'd lived there all your life,
do you think that you would mind? |
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And it might begin to teach you
how to give a damn
about your fellow man!
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AND IT MIGHT BEGIN TO TEACH YOU
HOW TO GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOUR FELLOW MAN ! |
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