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To: Ilaine who wrote (3300)	11/25/2002 12:40:53 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 6901

I think you make excellent points, and agree that Guiliani vindicated the "broken windows" theory. Of course, there is this terrible tendency in ghetto culture to stigmatize things like doing homework as "acting white". You may recall the story of a smart young man from Harlem who was given a scholarship to Phillip's Exeter (if memory serves), and yet fell in with his homies during breaks, and was eventually killed while involved in the commission of a crime. He felt he needed to prove he was "down" with his homies when he was on break. This subcultural "tick" is very disturbing, and it is hard to know how to address that degree of alienation from "bourgeois" society. That is one of the reasons that the churches are so important in the black community and elsewhere: because they uniquely have the authority to act as a bulwark against social chaos, and to embrace the penitent lovingly as he fights to come back from darkness.......