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The Easiest Thing To Do Is To Blame Everyone Else

By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Jul 23 2008, 06:40 AM


You hear a lot about families with troubled kids.  Kids dropping out of school, joining up with gangs, doing violent crimes.  Eventually someone gets hurt or someone gets killed.  Then blame is handed out.  There is always a lot of blame.  It isn’t very often that the blame takes a full circle and comes back to the parents, though.  Usually the parents are blaming everyone else instead.

In Cleveland, Ohio there is a small group of woman who are on the streets trying to be moms.  That’s because they’ve lost their real children…killed on the streets.  Instead of taking the easy way out and blaming everyone else, they are taking the responsibility.  They know their sons were "tearing up the community."  They’re telling people it’s time “to take the blinders off.”


These mothers are working against youth violence in Cleveland






 
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