Pastor Lewis just says it like it is. The B.L.O.C.K. operates out of a building at 4310 Mallow in Sunnyside, an incongruously named neighborhood bounded by Texas 288, Martin Luther King, Old Spanish Trail and Almeda-Genoa. In one way, it resembles a relaxed, rural town. Cows and horses graze in vacant lots. The downtown skyline is hazy and distant to the north.
Clapboard churches dot nearly every block.
Small businesses with names like Family Liquor and Bud's House of Meats line main thoroughfares. But many residents are locked in a desperate struggle with drugs and poverty. They'd rather sell drugs than work. It's some, you can't say all of them. There's some here that want to get out of here, so they're working.