As for how to best spend that money to deal with the above crisis in our young, male black demographic, I still think something is missing. As I said earlier, you can throw all the usual feel-good social programs, community supports, celebrity-sponsored basketball courts, mentor programs, public funds, scholarships and the like at the problem, but what you are not doing is putting the fear into these fellows. Perhaps the better word than fear, is hope. So, the question is then, how do you give this demographic which is so specific, it's not the girls, it's not the women, it's not the older men, hope for the future so that they'll toss the guns. Perhaps, alongside the social programs, you also need the powerfully strong justice system, so that they do not see the drug dealer on the corner making it on easy street, distracting the youngsters from the positive paths of education, perserverence and success. Instead the drug dealer and gang banger is off the street, in jail for a good long time, or deported, or exiled from the projects, leaving a more positive community for everyone else in his wake.
