While she was there, our daughter had organized her fellow students into pooling their spending money, buying pizza and looking under eaves and bridges to feed the homeless. She has done other good deeds for the homeless and the poor. Now she feels that she was betrayed. She was unsatisfied. Unless kids in the ghettos develop solid skills at reading, writing, and critical thinking, they're never going to get decent jobs and have realistic alternatives to joining the gangs, pushing drugs, and all the rest of it.
Education is key.
I think if the Jewish leadership works with the black leadership in this way, much good might result. Also note that many of the people who write in wish their privacy preserved. Thank you for your cooperation with these restrictions.