Example that someone lives right there. Next to somewhere where a dead body could be in this house right now. You can drive and i dont know any weekend. And if you drive around enough i think i think you will see yellow tape at some point. And we all know what the yellow tape me on economy and when the yellow cape come out there means if somebody is day. 20. 1 you know. We need to be able to have people come out and celebrate. Positive things good to them and out of the neck pocket. Baltimore has a problem with killing murder it has a problem with drug abuse it has a problem with gangs some of the poverty areas in the city has not changed for a decade. Its particularly where the riots were in the madama area that has been a poverty stricken area for generations. And its not changing it needs to change wed like it to change so far we have not broken that cycle of poverty and crime and really desperation in those areas. And i think in particular of the street gangs the organized gangs th
Posted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, my name is dave darcy and were glad youre able to join us for this live conversation with president and ceo day diane yentel and ibram kendi. We encourage you to submit questions for doctor kendi and if you start to have a question for our support team, click here on that right side of the screen. The event will be available on the site within 24 hours and is now my pleasure to turn it over to diane yentel. Thank you dave and welcome everyone to todays conversation with doctor ibram kendi on Racial Equity before and after the covid19 pandemic. Im glad almost 5000 people have registered today. Im heartened and encouraged by the level of interest in this topic so i am diane yentel, president and ceo of the National Housing coalition, where a Membership Organization dedicated to achieving socially just Public Policies and ensuring that the lowest income people have decent, accessible and affordable homes. And as part of that work you ha
Decades particularly where the riots were in the madama area that has been a poverty stricken area for generations. And thats not changing it needs to change wed like it to change so far we have not broken that cycle of poverty and crime and really desperation in those areas. And i think in particular of the street gangs the organized gangs that are down there they dont want to see these people escape that kind of poverty they want to keep them in there so you meet those people to. See if the ministry youre doing starts to hamper drug sales. Theyre going to come after anybody that does that it can be anything from a threatening letter sometimes a bullet is left in your mailbox or you know on your front porch thats that says that the next bullet you wont hear it will just hit you. Its hard to convince a young man to. Continue in high school and to get a job at one of our fast food restaurants and make minimum wage. When he can be recruited by a gang and sell drugs and make hundreds of d
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Different today but our position is different were not like our forefathers we know the terrain but to from ghana says they think we dont see or understand things those days are gone maybe says i keep hearing people attempting to justify what happened to george floyd by saying he was a criminal but 2 wrongs do not and never have made a right arab or from ghana says did you deserve to die for the so called crime he committed peace must prevail this time around sammy from ghana says that is always a time for actions and reaction this is the time the entire African Fraternity has been waiting for its time for the hands of equality before the law to work floyd is the trigger to put the law to its feet im just im john is burke says the criminal was not fleeing he resisted arrest and goes on to say it was an accident just almost from gambia says did you watch the scene video some of us watch that went viral criminal or not he had the right to be heard in the courts of law the friend from tim