The streets were my father
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/06/16/the-streets-were-my-father-1089851/
Excerpt:
Despite what collectivists claim, it doesn’t take a village to raise a child. Ideally, it takes a father and a mother. We call this the nuclear family. It is the basis any civilized society. Courtesy of the left-wing, we don’t live in an ideal world. Instead we live in a cynically disposable climate, where the value of a positive father figure is routinely ridiculed or discounted as, at best, unnecessary for the optimal successful outcome of their children. “The Streets Were My Father: A Story of Hopelessness and Redemption” is a riveting documentary that relates the life stories of three men who grew up in Chicago in either abusive or otherwise fatherless homes.
Carlos Colon, Louis Dooley and Leslie Williams are unflinchingly honest as they describe their youthful descent down soul-crushing paths which follow an all-too-familiar pattern. In their world, life had increasingly little value. Unstable homes and dangerous neighborhoods, gang life, deceptively glittered as the golden answer. Gangs provided a family, of sorts, much needed protection, and supplied the ego-enhancing feelings of belonging. Soon small crimes turned into big crimes, petty theft turned into grand theft, armed robbery and murders followed. All of these illegal and evil acts fed an increasingly demanding inner fire fueled by anger. It’s a story of human failing, a story as old as the Bible itself.
Inevitably, all three ended up in jail or prison, with Louis being sentenced to life plus 100 years. Where’s the hope in that? Executive Producer Lee Habeeb, and CEO of Our American Films/Production, crafts the men’s stories so viewers are witness to the life and destiny-changing events and choices they make. In the journey, each man comes to the end of his own rope. Louis, Carlos and Leslie all commit their lives to Jesus Christ. They all testify to the unconquerable power that transformed their lives, melted their hardened hearts, and bathed them in a redeeming glow of forgiveness, from both God and man.
...The statistics surrounding fatherless homes are astounding. 85% of children with behavioral disorders: 20x the average. 90% of homeless and runaway: 32x the average. 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes: 9x the average. 70% of Americans believe fatherless homes, not systemic racism, is our biggest social problem. There are almost 2.3 million people incarcerated today in America. 85% of youths in prison are from fatherless homes, which is 20 times the average of those from a home with a father. You do the math.
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For Father’s Day the importance of fathers!
May God bless and strengthen fathers on Fathers’ Day and every day.
Chicago Alderman Says Gangs Are Responsible For Chicago Problems, Not Racism, As Mayor Lori Lightfoot Claimed
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Ignoring the fact that children turn to gangs because they more than likely have no fathers in their household.