"What you must do is to get us, young people, to feel better about ourselves. Help us to achieve confidence about ourselves without needing the dangerous prop of a knife. Help us not to judge ourselves in the eyes of others. Stop viewing us through the eyes of failure. Help us to overcome self-loathing. Your job is to stop the merry-go-round of our culture of immediacy by providing us with hope and long-term solutions to our longing for belonging. To us all the brave talk and actions of adults towards young people are similar to the gang culture. We are not all bad."
09 July 2008
"Get Us To Feel Better About Ourselves"
A former gang member from Birmingham talking to the Archbishop of York:
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Thought you might have blogged about your little visit, yesterday, to Guido Fawkes.
No. Perhaps not after making such an arse of yourself.
Yes, well, heaven forbid I visit any other blog and say anything. I'm slapping my wrist and smacking my bottom.
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