Let's Start with the Children: Journey to St. Ann's
By Al Colella and Steven Lippincott
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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 societys 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 recognizeand, therefore, unrealized and unavailablethe 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 differencesomewhere, sometime, somehowand discover the difference in your being.
Proceeds from book sales will be directed to an educational fund specifically for the children of St. Anns community in the South Bronx.
Al Colella
Al Colella believes that an individual can make a difference and that the world provides an abundance of opportunities to do so. This proactive belief comes from fifty years of experience in the arenas of family, community, church, and societal ministries, paralleled by professional/academic careers. Colella lives in Bristol, Rhode Island.
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