Posted on 07/01/2021 5:43:27 PM PDT by dynachrome
Straw hat in hand, Tyrean “Heru” Lewis jumped out of his pickup truck along busy Shackelford Road in North St. Louis County and walked into the treeline, where he had something special to show.
On the other side, uniform rows of vegetables — lettuce, radishes and bok choy — sprouted on half an acre. The land is not on a remote country farm, but just 17 miles from the Delmar Loop in the heart of the metro. As Lewis, founder of Heru Urban Farming, checks the crop he gets excited about its progress, raising his voice over the sound of traffic.
As he talks, he describes the need he has seen in St. Louis, his hometown, the neighborhoods where many children don’t have enough healthy food to eat, and where the nearest fresh vegetable can be miles away.
He has also seen how gun violence has become a fact of everyday life in these same neighborhoods. As a health teacher, he saw one of his students go to prison for a shooting. As a resident, he hears gunshots daily around his home, and three or four people get killed in his neighborhood every year.
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Hard work in the hood?
Or hardly working in the hood?
Does NPR’s employment advertisements for articles say “only idiots need apply”?
if they only had more bok choy they wouldn’t need to shoot you...
NPR = feh.
How about increasing police presence; prosecuting and jailing thugs; and promoting stable two-parent families (root cause) so that grocery stores won’t abandon an area?
This looks like an object lesson in “correlation does not equal causation”. Given the relationship between criminal gun homicides and inner city gun violence, and given the food deserts inside of crime- and gang-ridden inner cities, one could imagine other such meaningless articles:
“Gold teeth linked to gun violence”
“Fatherless households linked to gun violence”
“Low rider vehicles and undercarriage lighting linked to gun violence”
“Musical car horns linked to gun violence”
... and let’s not forget:
“Section 8 housing, welfare and EBT usage linked to gun violence”
“How about increasing police presence; prosecuting and jailing thugs; and promoting stable two-parent families (root cause) so that grocery stores won’t abandon an area?”
I was listening to an economics podcast regarding the water problem in China. The CCP was spending a colossal amount of money to reroute a major river to supply only a relatively small amount of water rather than raise the price of water so that people would stop wasting it. The reason was, it was better to spend a huge amount of money and not solve the problem than to do the politically unpopular thing and raise the price of water. That’s the same thing here. Promoting marriage, monogamy and “white” cultural values is politically unthinkable. Therefore any other solution is what is needed. The fact that it doesn’t work is not important.
Not surprisingly, NPR misspelled Gang Violence.
Character insufficiency is the real problem.
- Chris Rock, "Bring the Pain", 1996.
Any excuse to free all those black people who murder each other from any responsibility for their actions.
Anyone who works for NPR is required to be a racist before starting work there.
Replace the lettuce with spinach. Replace the radishes with beets. Replace the bok choy with green beans and add corn and carrots. Those are some of the simplest crops to grow and pretty healthy to boot.
I agree
This is whitewashing the real causes
What’s amazing is the fool cult of listeners gets enough emotional strings pulled to actually believes this crap.
The perfect Leftist circle:
poverty >> which is from Leftism >> leads to more Leftism >> which leads to more poverty >> which leads to violence >> which leads to more poverty >> which leads to need for more Leftism
You will never defeat Bok Choi...
Tell him bok choy is an Asian vegetable. The homies won’t touch it.
“Gun violence”…. Chuckle… they don’t have a “gun” violence problem… they have a … People… violence problem.
He has also seen how gun violence...he saw one of his students go to prison for a shooting.
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