Let's Start with the Children

Journey to St. Ann's

• Author(s): Al Colella,
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Pages: 342
• ISBN_10: 1449778917
  ISBN_13: 9781449778910
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) , Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational , Self-Help / Personal Growth / Self-Esteem , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies ,

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Make the journey from the slave trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the plight of African Americans in inner-city America in the South Bronx. Learn about the ravages and disadvantages of residence there and its lifelong impact upon an entire population. Recognize that this continuing situation has a sad and shameful historical path shaped by society’s blindness to humanity. This malaise of blindness exacted an unfair, immoral, and immeasurable human cost upon generations; a blindness which denied entry to the opportunities afforded others as a birthright.

The aggregated cost in the South Bronx is staggering beyond belief. There is, however, a collateral cost to the reservoir of national resources caused by a failure to recognize—and, therefore, unrealized and unavailable—the creativity, talents, skills, and potential of inner-city residents.

Hear those voices that have addressed the inequities of this situation; learn of individuals who believe in the humanity of every individual. Despite these voices, the deplorable inner-city situation continues and even worsens. Is anybody listening? There are listeners who have taken up the cause, albeit in the face of a lack of political, humanitarian, and spiritual wills. Learn about those listeners in a New England church community that made the trek to the South Bronx for a decade. One may perceive these two communities as radically different; experience the merger of two communities into a single family via the grace of a spiritual ministry.

Think about how you can make a difference—somewhere, sometime, somehow—and discover the difference in your being.

Proceeds from book sales will be directed to an educational fund specifically for the children of St. Ann’s community in the South Bronx.