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In article <rlk.718648375@amstel> rlk@VisiCom.COM (Bob Kitzberger) writes:
>dhosek@cbrown.claremont.edu writes:
>
>>Earlier this year I had the pleasure of meeting Greg Boyle, a
>>Jesuit priest who was working in East L.A. with gang members. He
>>has said, with regard to the young people (almost exclusively
>>latino) that he works with that there isn't a single gang member
>>he's met who wouldn't give it all up for a good job. My
>>experience confirms this.
>
>
>Yeah, right... I think the original poster, Kim, _is_ living in reality.
>People that thinks it's all "our" fault for not providing jobs (read:
>opportunity, etc.) for these hoodlums must be on some kind of guilt trip.
>

Well, actually, what people are trying to tell is that there is no
way for people in East L.A. to get jobs that do exist, not that there
is some nobless oblige (sp) requirement for jobs to be provided them.
Think about it, you grow up in a world where none of your friends or
relatives will be hired into jobs, so you do what you can to survive.
The fact that these riots only break out once every few decades testifies
to the patience and tolerance of people who are incredibly oppressed.
Even up here in touchy-feely politically correct northern california,
black americans are about 10 percent of the general population and 50 percent
of the jail population.

>Of course, I don't live in East L.A., so my view is certainly biased.

So, of course, you don't actually know anything about what you are
talking about, do you?  You ever work in those communities?  Meet any
of the people who live there?  Actually bother to collect evidence that
might shake your view of the world?  

Mysti
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