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[quote=Anonymous]I’m an optimist and tend to seek the bright side of even the most troubling problems. I’m energized when people get together to look for solutions and quickly lose patience with fault finding efforts.

So my question to Black people is especially difficult for me: Do we have problems -- serious, widespread, community-threatening problems -- that can't be fixed? I particularly have in mind the young men (mostly) who may be irredeemable. To be clear, I’m not talking here about mere street toughs or even gang-bangers. I’m specifically focused on youngsters in our community who, I fear, have no inner self to come to, who indiscriminately maim, kill and even die without remorse. These are our children (and not always children) who are missing something at the core of their being, who have no feeling for others and who seem to have no feelings at all except rage. We’re all unfortunately familiar with this, in the DC area alone it’s customary to read about these violent offenders in our local communities.

Of course we know full-well that young Black men are not the only ones who commit these crimes. In fact, we know most Black men never commit any crimes at all. We also know other races have their own deep-seated problems. But I’m asking us about us (White folks, you’re welcome to weigh in, too). What can we do about this problem? The young Black men who seem to plaque our communities without a conscience. Is it pointless to speak of rehabilitating them, when they were never habilitated in the first place?

As I said, I tend to be optimistic and believe there are answers, but I don’t know. I really don’t know.
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