A Livelihood is a Life
Mr. Woodson has also taken note of a spate of 10 teen suicides, many committed on train tracks, that shook my hometown of Palo Alto between 2009 and 2015. He likens that tragedy to the epidemic of murders in many U.S. cities. “If you devalue your life, you’ll either take your own, or you’ll take someone else’s,” Mr. Woodson says. “But they’re different sides of the same coin.” In both cases, young people “are dying in acts of self-hatred.”Robert Woodson, a self-proclaimed conservative who sounds apolitical to today's reader, is stepping down from his leadership of The Woodson Center. He also worked with Alliance of Concerned Men to diffuse gang violence. He partnered in the 1980s with an enterprising single mother of five named Kimi Gray to bring tenant stakeholders into the public housing management circles, resulting in President Reagan signing public housing reform.
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