we brought people like john ponder, from los angeles and gary rye is from ohio, willie peterson, all are activist and low-income communities bringing about a gang intervention in making the places safe. john ponder is taking 2000 people who came out of prison and help them to live stable lives, he has 500 volunteers. about 40% are police officers. police officers actually mentoring the offenders in the consequence of violent encounters between police and the minority is dramatically reduced. so we have models on the ground, around the country that shows that these are people who are taking these values and using them as a means of promoting redemption and transformation of people and communities and their restoring communities. we as conservatives must see them as allies and supply them with funding, also scholars should be writing about them, it would be good to point to an example in a low-income community. what the woodson center is trying to establish is the center for the study of resilience. and not just to failure studies. and so as you say, the la left s broadway, movies, wha

john ponder is taking 2000 people out of prison and help them to live stable lives.eers. about 40% are police officers. police officers actually mentoring sex offenders and as a consequence the violent encounters between police and the minority community is dramatically reduced so we have models on the ground around the country that show that these are people who are taking those values and using them as a means of promoting redemption and transformation of people and communities and they are restoringnd communities. we as conservatives must see them as allies and supply them with funding and scholars should be writing about them and so when you're talking about a principal, it would be good to point to an example in a low income community. what the woodson center is trying to establish is the center for theo study of resilience and not just failure studies and so as you say, broadway, movies, so what were doing at 1776, were gonna have k-12 curriculum, were going to have videos were going have festivals to celebrate 1776, we also should make grassroots leaders civic

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