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Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 5:32pmSanction this postReply
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Excellent article! I lived though 3 different riots in LA and worked in South Central and East LA for years - What Bill has written is all so true and so sad.

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Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 7:39amSanction this postReply
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The damage done to the african-american community by the breakdown of family and community is enough to break one's heart. I am white, and grew up in a small town in Alabama where many black parents raised their children to build a good life for themselves. I went to a school that was 50/50, white and black. Our parents and teachers expected us to behave, and we got along much better than many people might think. It is a cruel irony that today's young African-Americans have opportunites that their parents and grandparents worked and prayed for, but many of them are dissipating themselves.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 6:35pmSanction this postReply
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What a great article Bill.
True tragedy and so thoughtfully written.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 9:17pmSanction this postReply
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Nice post, Bill.  I wrote here on RoR about The Roots of Poverty from my blog on that topic.

I agree completely with your basic assumptions and supporting evidence.

It is not that poverty causes crime, but that crime causes poverty.


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