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Originally Posted by ladyjane  I am sure many of them actually do more than you know. I know that Michael Jordan always did for the kids in Chicago. He actually founded a Boys and Girls Club. |
But they need some leaders to work with them regularly - some men of note to look up to. I've heard of all their foundations but it's not really helping if hundreds die of gang violence that much, is it? Look at Alex Rodriguez and Prince Fielder and MLB players and rappers dripping in gold and stables of fancy cars and Tiger Woods - all who make more millions upon million than they can spend who form foundations to shelter part of their money but aren't working directly with the gang children in urban areas themselves at all. They leave the foundations for women and others to run. I think these kids who don't have that much structure or fathers in their lives need some one on one work and something to aspire to. They all could band and pay them to go to school or do some work that was meaningful to help their own poor. Passing money down from the Ivory Towers and Tweeting and making rap songs and violent movies doesn't seem to be helping American gang children that much. I'd say to them put your own self back into your culture and your culture's kids and help them one on one if you really want to "give back" as you all claim.