Announcer and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you thank you. Please welcome khary lazarrewhite social justice advocate out with new november novel out called passage. A it is about a young warrior on the streets thanks for being on the program. Thank for having me i was pleased, fascinated you call this kid warrior tell us why. I think its so important when you tell the stories of young black men when they are telling their stories that they put their own narrative front and center this is a novel about the internal psyche of a young man and what he loves about the meaning of his name, it tells every Single Person he comes in contact with who he is and what he represents. And he feels it struggles. To survive the conditions hes facing. Even though he is from great loving family, the moment he leaves the doors is faced with so many sociconomic conditions so many others have faced. He feels he has to be a warrior navigating that, a tngs of wearing a strong mask and
Announcer and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you thank you. Please welcome khary lazarrewhite social justice advocate out with new november novel out called passage. A it is about a young warrior on the streets thanks for being on the program. Thank for having me i was pleased, fascinated you call this kid warrior tell us why. I think its so important when you tell the stories of young black men when they are telling their stories that they put their own narrative front and center this is a novel about the internal psyche of a young man and what he loves about the meaning of his name, it tells every Single Person he comes in contact with who he is and what he represents. And he feels it struggles. To survive the conditions hes facing. Even though he is from great loving family, the moment he leaves the doors is faced with so many sociconomic conditions so many others have faced. He feels he has to be a warrior navigating that, a tngs of wearing a strong mask and
Economic draft. Those in low economic communiti communities clammer through sweat, tears, the blood of our nations enemies and blood of american heros. I invite you to allow the emerging cannibis community to empower an overlooked community, my ask is to expand to military veterans. Perhaps underserved veterans that receive less than Honorable Discharge for cannibis use could meet your standards for inclusion. Combat veterans are only 10 of the community. Perhaps they will earn your consideration. Thank you next speaker. Good morning. My name is shane. I want to thank you guys for listening to everybody before me and everybody after me. I want to talk about the Compassion Program. I want you to keep it in the state and make sure its safe for everybody. Im a poor patient and i would like to see the task force maybe have patients in there as well. Keeping room for everybody. And thank you for listening to me. Thank you. Yeah, we added the Compassion Program today. I appreciate you speaki
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Right now, harlem right now, and find many, many people shooting up or using pills who are not white, who are not lower middle class people. This is an epidemic that affects all income groups, ages, races, demographics and thats largely looked past in the media, the in part because its easier for reporters to most reporters are white. Im white, im a report. And im speaking from experience. Most newsrooms most reporters are white, and i think white reporters feel more comfortable going to white neighborhoods to write about white drug addicts. Thats been my experience. I think if you saw more people of color in newsrooms you would see this aspect of the epidemic represented more fairly in the press. I wanted to cover that. That aspect of it. So im going to talk about an area in baltimore called oxyalley, a place i spent a lot of time writing about the addicts there and a place where many some of the drugs and many other drugs ended up. They dahl it oxial. Looks like any other blighted st