This youngster walks past drug dealers every day on his way to and from school, he fixes his mother's food and encourages her to eat, even when she doesn't feel like it. Here is what this young man said to Kozol. I wonder how powerful God is. He must be wise and powerful to make the animals and trees and give man organs and a brain to build complex machineries, but he is not powerful enough to stop the evil on the earth, to change the hearts of people. I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in this city is something that a preacher could call evil.
Somebody has power.
And then he talked about what it was like to go to the clinic with his mother and see the line of drug users lined up waiting for clean needles. He expressed his sorrow for them, and his fear. There's a whole world out there if you know it's there, if you can see it. But they're in a cage. They cannot see.