Telling like it should be: Philadelphia Mayor Nutter takes on youth gang violence from the pulpit

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PAXALLES: Telling like it should be: Philadelphia Mayor Nutter takes on youth gang violence from the pulpit:

Awesome. Lots of Great, Straight Talk. It's titled Parents need to be Parents. Amen to that. NO PC. No BS. About a half-hour but well worth the time. The media plays their favorite sound-bite, but the whole speech is loaded with good talking points. Talking about the breakdown of the family unit, the single most destructive thing we've done to our culture over the last generation. It is high time to reverse the trend. Way to go, Mayor Nutter.

"August 10, 2011

Telling like it should be: Philadelphia Mayor Nutter takes on youth gang violence from the pulpit

Philadelphia Mayor Nutter preached from the pulpit at Mount Carmel Baptist Church last weekend addressing young people involved in flash gang violence.  His words should be played at the opening day of school assemblies nationwide:"

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I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.

And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home." -- Ronald Reagan