Thank you, Wes Moore, for your service to this country but what a disgusting idea for a book.
A new book asks the question: What makes one man succeed where another ends up in jail?
Thank you, Wes Moore, for your service to this country but what a disgusting idea for a book. Wes Moore made money by writing a book about a Cop Killer. Where did the proceeds of this book go? Two men with similar backgrounds, the same name, one growing up in the BRONXs and the other in Baltimore had two different trajectories in their life. It either shows a dramatic difference between those two cities or how great America is! What a county we live in where two men that are so much the “same” can have two different outcomes of their lives.
You wrote an entire book trying to answer a question that Martin Luther King summed up in one phrase; “judge a man by the content of his character”. Not by the color of his skin, name or family structure.
In this interview Wes More admits that when kids “listen to music and look at movies, they can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction” but he wants to hold parents accountable if they don’t affirm their child’s gender, begin HRT or surgery. He believes not having a father in the house can be fixed with more money from the Government.
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a group of armed men had broken into a Baltimore jewelry store, and in the process of making their escape, shot and killed an off-duty police officer named Bruce Prothero. It wasn't just the violence of the act that shocked Moore, it was the name of one of the suspects: Wes Moore.
Both, as it turns out, grew up in single-parent households with working-class mothers, in neighborhoods rife with crime and drugs. But while one Wes Moore was saved from delinquency and falling grades by a transfer to a military school, the other Wes fathered several children, surrounded himself with addicts, and fell deeper and deeper into the drug trade before, eventually winding up behind bars.
We need to figure out a better way to address recidivism in this country and find a better way to help those people who have served their debt to society, because we can't continue to pay for this financially and morally -- having people with rap sheets as long as their arm because in many cases they don't know any other way.
My grandparents grew up at a time when, if they were driving through the country, they would make sure they eat whenever they could because you never know when the next place will come that will allow black people in. Are there still real systemic problems? Absolutely!
We need to have a stronger system of support in order for that to change. Seeing so many kids feeling so alone and looking for acceptance, if we're not willing to show these kids a larger sense of community, those guys in the gangs will. One of the great things about this book was creating ties with organizations across the country doing work with communities and kids that are largely forgotten about.
When a lot of kids listen to music and look at movies, they can't tell the difference between fact and fiction.
