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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BS … having cruddy moral and ethical values and also being a violent person is what leads to violence.
Not having to miss the off meal.
The thugs have terrified decent people out of the cities—now there is plenty of vacant lands for farms.
If the thugs were actually starving they would do some “undocumented harvesting”...have to see how that goes.
Gun violence is racist. Haven’t you heard?
I searched, “grocery store looting gif”.
Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Never happens. Scrubbed from the big search tech giants.
Lol.
I should go back to that tagline.
The thought of a roving kung fu gang led by an asian cabbage that has a shocking victory ratio..
“I’ve seen the difference in kids when they get a meal and when they don’t get a meal, how they behave and how they focus in school,” he said. “So I truly believe that’s all connected.”
While he may have the inner city experiences and typical, dem talking point of big government can save us ingrained into his thinking, he's trying to do a good thing. Go ahead and put him down for that or group people together. Will he get anywhere? Maybe he'll change a few lives. Better than most people will do in their life.
Rob all the stores into extinction and then complain about living in a “food desert!”
That’s the ticket!
I believe Target is their favorite. Work shoe stores are never touched.
Food insecurity my eye, people on food stamps have the highest obesity rate of any economic group in the US.
“Looting insecurity”
The lies leftists tell themselves to attempt to explain black culture are really something to behold.
NPR is Pravda. Commie bullshit.
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