Come Together; Where Do We Go From Here?
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the plan come together and come together the weekly program on and for metropolitan news with co hosts tony nash and sheldon levy this week's programme where do we go from here to discuss positive action and community resources in combating drug addiction now to begin the discussion and to introduce our young panel here is sheldon levy our topic is when we go for me are going to discuss positive solutions to combat the problem of drug addiction and how it's affecting young people i'm here in the studio this evening with five young guests from the metropolitan area i'm going to introduce them in and have them each tell me a little bit about themselves gregory thompson from my high school and its affiliated with radical discovery will and ages and from that community and she also
is affiliated with radical discovery mr larry thompson who is a student at atlantic ridge real truth academy mr mike massey and mr tom segal both of whom all residents of odyssey house and i'd like to ask each of them to introduce themselves now on tells a little bit about himself greg townson rise high school affiliated with product of discovery communities the pd d that's a project to deal with the education that we receive in schools have become from summer programs or some of the course that we take in school though the job and because of its knees to this ethnic insurgents or aw like an innocent that they need to get into a different college or for a particular program so there's gospel is over the summer the goals through the winter for an interview robert you've been there longer
so my name's <unk> when i'm eighteen and the mosul affiliate product of discovery and it was a product of the discoveries for underprivileged children well that's wrong it's helped us in many ways and also i think the main reason why i got into this program work is because like if something i can relate to and the education and the school system is terrible and deliver product of discovery to tell you like it is exactly also the tight a way to go yet the reason why and i i took the segment i wanted to speak on stages because i'm doing my years at the summer program at columbia university which there are many people who have quote demon died and i don't know of any way that i could help otherwise and speaking maybe i don't know maybe this to get across to some people my name is live thousand
them and i'm a student at the atlantic was fifty eight again at the time i'm in the process of graduating and going on to the next that would to be the academy of transition and what i'm here for two days i have a little knowledge on the job trying to be a little bit more hi my name's thomas a dominant rather lousy house while ago with lousy house last year the news was chosen for you seitz lawyer close to a few people outside of exactly is happening with the affair will knowledge will know last year nasa has them it would have put some people my name's mike massey in an anonymous known as the house debated it of who are you now and the reason why we're in a huge negative growth illuminati
that because it it has awakened a medium vollmer santa as ceo of things happen in them i can give it to local people what is really happening the metal no this program is the last of a series of programs where we've talked about what's going are we talked about the fact but drug addiction and young people has reached an epidemic of proportion we talked about these things before when we going into day what we're going to do is going to make a different can we do anything as young people to make a dent in the problem way to go oh i think one thing that we can do is young people why am i so please meet in the suit is ample emotional weight i do or the way that i know rouse will prevent mainly the thing as these schools where the teachers at the start of a more openly about the subject
press have to start talking more openly about the subject and people leaped establishing a good discussion of clothes as some finesse bed or something there's no go dance taliban it for what it is because of re open cabinet pete was that planet be so cool with his daughter within themselves and i think they're all on things can be done maybe help young people i think is just our win in the second and therefore wade's an elementary school i agree with you about the first thing i think is that you have to educate teaches because they are right now i know of many teaches on staten island and you know all over who don't know i think they know a little bit about just an outlier and down you know i've i know some instances they have been a poet and high school mile high school where there's people there who was not in class and arming teachers didn't just didn't know what they were doing
so first will you have to educate teaches well it's just as good would be a relentless self even though will be constructed needs of the teacher invited you oh what's going on what's happening and i don't want to be you know certainly know a little bit about the drug scene and you know brothers do you know brothers who to go where the rivers like being a brother myself mahmoud abbas drugs i would have to tilt one of those that that is on what the ceiling let's see myself doing and what you know the well they signal the drugs they thought we'll present when drugs know why delia when it call the situation families are useless a prisoner's uses of the prisoners on drugs when there's something happening around them there's a good reason why the sea lion crisis like a second slavery i know taken to do not consume ourselves
then fired power and said ok on the corner looking at nothing amin is really not been in it and say that the mortgage on a coat young people i mean like people younger than i'd say about thirty forty seats let them later and it is going to medellin not to do it at the morning on a deal that they see on the other that this demonic on a bagel and i enjoy an open to look funny to them they outlined in afghanistan but a young ones that you've done is now most of the ramos environmentalist see incidents like this you see people and she's so bent over and i really don't have any time fincher is there any involvement or a tight romano to look up to remove most of the people now using drugs i'm leaving that out is in the live thing that is
happening in that is that the communities in that wheel is a shoe that they have now really i'm doing things before but it became new attitude change we have to look at a seminal musicians and what did doing it differently they are i will govern itself the xbox a call from harlem and the south is rather than the race and in the way that your puerto rican than their blacks putting satellite one area idaho areas like duty at the cane and whatever and not by a city only they shoot around it nobody's really trying to do a thing for them what i think that the people in the communities just ow i did know all of it yeah sous vide was going to do a movie with her i mean it talks about what we going to do when all my kenyan always been the way it really do anything about it i like to pick up on that one point guard there we've heard about people getting
up off that and he said that it's basically the people in the community of having to do it well what about certain factions certain forces that are in the community what about the school's what about the police and what about the government what to date they have to do the police in the government and a school says the school system has failed it for a simple reason that it's no stretch in the school systems the joust from nine o'clock in the morning three o'clock imagining his school away from all the way from the stretcher we from the companies and away from all the things that maybe was doesn't have a stretch in the school's only we can lose them once the region not the ceiling deal in generalities if possible the triangle with one or two ideas in other words what to do with the school covenant i think we should hit the government because i'm
telling you like the government didn't want these things to be or they wouldn't be here and that's it and it's right in the government the government is letting it coming and the government is that the people running the goal is that a number of businesses do is white or black are aligning they just lay nearby to kill themselves are endowed i think we have to deal with the government because again the head of the dia the ones whose let me come in a country and you know damn well if they wanted to be it would not be in and i flew it on and as a member of the la times is far the government knows a lot of people don't play is very much importance on drug abuse they'll look at until really stays mainly own home and no family wants a safe zone home of them and integrating just taking away i live in harlem all my life waiting is i live in harlem and i visited so many different places with the biggest ipo that the biggest armed point on the big issue in part of the dogs come in and then you think is in
harlem and i worked at the almighty oak here they put it and hitting our people up with limited government don't care they want the mess up all the young black might be good in order to know that they're afraid that if we are with a black mink it how you know that is just going to keep going going government takeover you know and our imaginative though no rules on drugs and our music you can imagine that we got all these runners at this from our distance and they think you know i don't think so fifty thousand islands of allegiance to you people rising up iran another thing about the government i can't relate to actually going to do some drugs because of the mystery novels have an axe in the government to do something about a certain condition the governor has not
responded at the uprising it to rise to a whole lot that's mcgovern will want autonomous legislation which was not voice when it was put in at the ceo of those we we look at what it what happened like an actual go when african cities a way to be independent so they went out and got anyone out in this way not possible that's why everybody in a community today by any country when out and do something and did it and they did it the audit to get out of being as though we americans laughed woman or whatever you wanna call it people tend to like these things on the government or blame things on intimate was them in their cells can do about them so he only twenty by do anything for you you know there's some things that it seemed everyone is almost saying but not quite saying and that is young people have to establish an attitude and it seems like that the gist of what everyone was saying here in one differ way or
another whether with white young people black people or whatever is that young people are affected by the problem and that young people are the ones that have to establish an added to the end it seems like with the different personalities here that the attitudes take different forms some a little while for the attitude become about my attitude is i would help everyone i really do like i'm black and i relate to blacklist like my main female used to get than poor my black presence has dissolved the streets is to butt out then again i can't limit myself because i say everyone is my brother or sister because everyone has got the same hangar and you know once you have when everyone has the same thing that you know you can try to deal with everyone and sometimes you have to deal with people in a different way because it didn't know until i know i wouldn't i watch
it deal with everyone you can guess my main concern i mean i'm black and you know going well all right if you have crony know to everyone's note in a white man's narrative that means motive and i was noting in your own way and you know but that i have to relate to that risk of this is me but as far as wyoming goes he's in his fame came up to him he's down in the dirt exactly like me or my brothers and sisters so then again my best way to do is just to try to help everyone is a very good thing only recently have been and i thing added to me in the meeting the oneida things have gathered for his it was light yet laid in the ghetto communities and in white communities to different things to different forces to get it in the ghetto communities your main thing would be like oh how i goodhue phenomenal you from southeast bronx it doesn't lay tonight's can go to have
in this on the trio this as one team a stamp out or can he began the value on the block or can i get a recall campaign with tv battle cabbie who wears an unlikely eighties you have kids rebelling against everything that they have and i wanted something that the ghetto communities that well a voyeur before you help anybody out they have their cooperation you get nobody city to house them i think a pause take a moment you think even many hours to make sure they get them into a sneak out and people sneak in the back in the key largo a magnet back to you again noah very when i am i live is this way home as far that has no idea wow that to the different people of the change our eyes see with the weights in the black says he'll a lot of things a lot of ways that people looked at each other and i'll believe in my black people black people and
why some y solomon island wrote this way and i am i don't believe in this way i'd rather seen as people relate to people on a just a long relationship with people time and it turns like you're my you're my brother and i will call you or whatever because and i was working in on groups with black people maybe only white person and the grooves i felt i learned a lot of a lot of things about myself or my time people if you had every bit of potential every bit of pall over their mental facilities have what will be your top three solutions to solving the problem with the way that was news rome i always get is always going to be a little less because that is exploiting it countless insists this is about using
soldiers on if you have capitalism was going to be exploited and then those people will be exploited wants to happen as some kind of a cop out some kind of thing to run to win the mental development always give them as much of capitalism so raising song wildwood oh a big unchanging system and countless as socialism oh i'm fine old facility that govern as i was audio please oh please not easy as all of you know like an adult years you owe the only bill to treat all people like they argued that the one thing that allah allah i went there every push you every bush to give boston a lot of quantity of heroin or any kind of anything i've begun to get life of premeditated murder for the site like i write a shipping and i
don't agree with their careers they must've been something i drove him to do that so writing you've got a deal with them i didn't find out what it is and i can do a good of you to be pushing these cases dealing in maine in like that and you put them in jail you know what happens to them then have been impressed when they get less related to come out again and they go right back into this thing now the budget and understand it not helping of ideas because it's become my bed our best to guess that's twice as much that cow like i just push in the pommel behind bars and then just the very what i would do i would change the whole court and jill systems over four letter system that would change them oh it's a good bet that by putting people behind bars what i do and i would definitely try work more than you why exactly what's
behind these what i used to deny using drugs here well it on that note i'd like to close and thank all participants becoming an thank everybody for listening and we'll be back with participants in the third segment al al this week you're listening to come together featuring a discussion on positive action and community resources in combat in drug addiction now to continue the discussion and interviews are adult mammal here is to lead it is tonight mr james allen who's director of addicts rehabilitation center <unk> his father of five children and he works with a staff of sex addicts mr
austin gilbert is a community caseworkers harlem rehabilitation center harlem hospital mr joseph noble is the director of the museum of the city of new york is the father of three mr bob us katie is an instructor at city university and a member of the city university drug rehabilitation program called project return before getting into not into tonight's discussion i'm going to ask each of you gentlemen to very briefly tell us about your various programs <unk> while i work out the addicts rehabilitation center as director on and so the fuel moves to hang out all the time and we do have a staff of forty people however about one third of those people are not for mileage they really have different degrees and they do certain kinds of special work that the rest of the staff cannot do for all of us
facilities we provided and residents treatment for approximately thirty people we work with an average hundred fifty two hundred lbs community people in meetings and plantings and an undetermined number of persons and daycare who'd been victimized by drugs taking these challenges together my name is often going on from the home and rehabilitation center my position is that of community where they are sent there has now expanded to include drug addiction and alcoholism named dan we're doing the rehabilitation work paul causes social and economically disadvantaged people ig found be forced to go but that most of your problems of rehabilitation involved these very things that they did not treat drugs and alcoholism this week the
bodies of alcoholism but what we do about that was being truthful alcoholism but we treated for psychiatry psychiatric patients basis i get nervous i get impatient and we treated as a gadget for years without even nine touching on a lot of the reason why we're going to expand and drug addiction less to know that you could tell us your program where you might wonder why a museum specifically the museum of the city of new york would be planning in january to launch a major exhibition call drug saying goes those of you have visited the museum the city of new york know that it is a history museum it dates back to the in exhibitions to the american indians are urine on the dutch and then english and the germans and
holzman jews that came in and settled in this community and you might say that the mayor of the past is what we have done but i became director of the museum on september one of those year and i resolved that we would do more than the mirror of the past we would have to play a creative role in the city have to die and as i say it since new york city is the drug capital of the world and this addiction as sweeping our country and it's an epidemic throughout the entire world that it is our role to do something creative and not something just passive and therefore we are planning in january to launch a major exhibition about drones and drug abuse and in this way we hope to provide a neutral ground a neutral position where young people and parents parents with their children grandchildren
can come into a neutral museum environment and see the real facts about drugs drug use video problems related to them the law enforcement as bugs and the solutions offered to solve these problems and also the underlying causes of not only drug abuse but also alcoholism it's a tall order but that's what i'm going to do did you also plan to exhibit a paraphernalia so that parents and teachers can familiarize themselves with it yes that was tough we are called the hardware drugs because if you have parents in some parts of the city who really don't know what marijuana looks like you've never seen a marijuana plant growing and never smelled it don't know ups and downs of the capsules will receive an appeals do not really know what these things look alike are pipes or what have you i think that they are fair
museum objects for exhibit in the same way that we have the guns of the civil war and the swords of the revolutionary war perhaps these are the implements of a modern war therefore we will exhibit them in a historical context in a neutral ground where people can come can see and i might add that the entire exhibit will be bilingual well clinicians bunch of course returns most promising taken a philistine body let's get to it i'm a teacher at city university of new york in and participating in a new experimental program undertaken by the university six months ago by the university is so working in conjunction with others the drug program project return attempting to carry on an education program while attics are going through the therapeutic community all right now we have twenty attics run project return in ten and it's from harlem confrontation house participating in it a basic education
program which is designed first of all to work the system and obtain a general equivalency diploma then preparing for college and are assisting them in their entrance into college and then the tribulation into college did i hear some place that even hope to get them back into rehabilitation that this is what you're working toward well they're currently in a rehabilitation program working with other people coming back to work and that same thing that's correct that the programs worked out in conjunction with the manpower career development agency in the city of new york and its army it's part of their public service careers program which is designed to assist minority group people end up painting about education and this skills some social service area so that our students will ultimately be you know we're prepared to work with addictions or service agency in drug programs thank you
gentleman in the name of our program where do we go from here how do we save ourselves from what seems to be the cultural destruction of our future while i was listening to some of the young people who are talking and i feel that to a degree they have the nail on the head for example on i've always believed that the same society that says it wants to stop the problem is the same society that's guilty of promoting the problem for example iran our government taught me how to hate to ethnic groups during the war and i've never met any of these people and it does not seem unreasonable that the same government ought to be able to teach uighur total conjure how to despise the problem of addiction we know that probably how great is important to the country is no and we don't even get any taxes on levees
from the problem because we are disciplined by our desire for our own dollars i believe that the root of the problem would be to change the attitude of the government the plans of all of our leaders and individuals involved you know we've looked at the buildings as if he was some sort of man from outer space that was promoting destruction of one country but has not really him he's the victim he's the guy who suffers and dies he steals six hundred million dollars worth of merchandise a year and we say video to be stopped but we forget the normal decent law abiding citizens by the stolen merchandise and therefore it is their dollars that go by that nobody uses come together will return after station identification are you w army are in new york city now back to tony nash
in the adult panel of those rather to really put a dent into this problem the one thing that we have to get away from is the one of these small screens such as racism we gave we can get together because because of this today and publicly today that problem of drugs affect each and every body in this nation and so it is everybody's problem every one has to pay gap is our own way or how to do it these drugs out of our communities out of our cities and what have you it's certainly a challenge to try to answer a question like that and there are you know when i started all presumed to have any real solutions to the problem i had many ideas i had and i would like to throw out and discussed with the other participants but
this is i'm involved in education i would like to be to have to talk about a little bit about dogs the need for a change in our poll approach to education i noticed in the last session that was a preceded us of where the young people participated they they all men's mentioned that the education system was ever relevant in the past couple of weeks and dr silverman in the quite the report underscored that quite dramatically point out that the education system throughout our whole country is not doing the job and done i think that there were wrapped up in being locked into curriculum were locked into an outdated structure outdated methods we get all involved in textbooks and teacher approaches and so forth and so on and we forget the very basic human elements that done our youngsters and i find this in teaching in the drug program are interested in and basic human realities that did discovery hard part of trying to
discover who they are how they relate to other people what does freedom me on oh what are your responsibilities in in society how can you get a day of them ensure an honest impression of yourself and how do you deal with the political society how a what are you responsibilities to land to the social problems there are around us do you find it or let me put it this way how soon after your people come into the group who most of the young people are axe now they all young they range from eighteen to forty to mid forties i was wondering just at which point they became interested in government and politics and immediately they are they are as they have high sophistication a lot about what's going on politically and socially around them it's it's
amazed that i was i was overwhelmed by the fed did that's an insight that they have to what's going on within our own cut cut country with reference to our countries imperial us thinking and approach to other nations throughout the world and it was so amazed constantly by the way they relate to the political scene to their personalized an end how they feel that what is going on in our country politically has a bearing on their hang up with drugs i don't believe that that the teacher can really teach the kid anything out of those books and i asked the teacher turns out to be a human being himself and i believe this is what you tell them that i think i'd sum it up by saying that we have developed for ourselves a very beautiful depersonalize society and out of those we got all kinds of problems we're going to be one of them well one thing that seems to me to have
been very clearly set forth by the young people are just are talking here is this tremendous idealism which they have and as we look back upon our youth i begin to feel almost like a senior citizen when i listen to them because the the sheer idealism of play of orford puts me to shame that as at their age i did not have this idea was this i think is one of the great hopes that we have certainly in many of our young people have gone out into areas such as the peace corps and the job corps and the youth corps that have carried on the idealism and the practical forms as a museum person and as a person who has been deeply concerned as i am as a professional with this study of the past i may sound like an old foe when i say that so many of the problems which we are being faced with the day have been undertaken by
previous generations and previous centuries and by previous cultures in other millennia and there are lessons to be learned from the past i believe that this whole drug culture that has exploded here is as a direct result of the frustrations of a mechanized society we have had this type of thing before we will have again it is not the product of the vietnam war because we have countries such as sweden finland and switzerland and japan who were not involved in the war in which the drug abuse problem is rampant it is not just a problem of the race relations the black white conflict which is most deplorable these other countries i have mentioned do not have and therefore there's a phenomenon apart from a large civilization and spinning
our wheels faster than we can learn we can adapt certainly two very talented people have paid with her life than the past couple of weeks for this jimi hendrix janis joplin couldn't cope anymore and that this morning when i talk to my seventeen year old son as i was driving more to school in maplewood new jersey i said to do i just said she was great i said well i don't know what happened it just seemed to me that she was living in a case beyond which the human body could not endure the drugs were made an effort to cope with this new eventually they consume her somehow it seems to me that we together with his idealism and appoints mr allen made specifically about our cultural
background it seems to me that somehow we must change summit called heroes that we have and in that way i think we will have a clearer position of what true audio isn't yours and he had a reaction to a year just a mild reaction that i picked up on two things that you serve warm had to do with those i wanted when i wanted and the other lawyers well the problem of note really is and i think one thing we must recognize as that that motto that attitude of i want it i want it now really has been promoted by thousands of frustrated by people and a million goes all over the country and i think one of the things that has made this kind of attitude begin to develop and the fact that these people have tried other avenues of
getting it and unfortunately they couldn't i have a question which was whether or not you gentleman thought that as adults one would have to give up alcohol announced this descending into mentioned constantly by young people as an excuse not as much now because i think they've come to understand a little more that they have to look to themselves but this is something that is brought up now do you think as adults that we have to set an example well i think we have to set an example that i don't see that has anything to do with alcohol or just like i don't think you know the drug problem has anything to do with drugs i think it's a much more human and deeper problem that the use of drugs that since the month but something much deeper and i think is about the whole is a symptom of something much deeper and that the problem is that something there's something wrong with people there's something wrong with our society and why i see you know no immediate connection with me as a
character in abstaining from alcohol so that my child will never sniffs glue or shoot doping too remains i see no relationship whatsoever i do see relationship with me becoming a healthy human being and assisting by youngster and you know the people that it i come into contact with and being healthy new healthy human being units we have to help help them learn to think for themselves yeah you know i then decide how much danger lies in what an and judicious use of things sure that in iowa make the speeches i know we've been talking long but the business of instant success is part of our whole capitalistic system is part of our whole culture every advertisement that you watch on tv brings into instant success this spring tablets are are vying to one another and how many seconds it takes to get rid of your headache or your cold or your sniffles you know cigarettes are going to immediately react to relax you to school dreams gonna make you beautiful tomorrow and then you know and then we're saying to
our our pr people in the streets you know that you have to take your time and i just don't think it's really think we have to change our whole approach to consumerism to and you know on the whole american mentality that we can and beautiful healthy rich overnight actually from a stamp on a couple of my family wanted to play it and so do you put an online news thousands are still a whole month to well on that point let's join the young people and ask them what is that we can now our adult and you have panels will come together for a joint
discussion today as leads off with a question directed to the young cattle we're back again with both our young adults and are adults and i'd like to open up this segment by asking our young people how they reacted to the adult portion whether or not they felt we were too intellectual in our approaches are one i know i try my best to relate to you but i couldn't and have some big things that really blew my mind with it is the noble said something about the way to jimi hendrix and janis joplin you know i understand i mean why should you to be a down and because of that i didn't think that he he could elect as well because the judge and they think maybe she collects his job anyway the newspapers a propaganda any landing they can write anything i want people a lateral to believe it but then again why
would you think of the accomplishment that he got enough that's what really hit me because i mean he did what he wanted to do he he was he must be the greatest guitarists in this in the world and you know by stating that i'm you know he's gone and he got it i know the missile and he couldn't win and made trips and no passengers who knows when he was alone when he did what then again you can download for than he does his thing he accomplish what he wanted to accomplish i don't think he's heard anyone maybe could've heard you know his loved ones by taking himself out of this well how are you guys sure people can do what they were writing is that in this culture wars in which we have been so conditioned to hero worship that you can have heroes or great and we hope that people would emulate their greatness my son actually thought and the guitarist two things the jimi hendrix is just the
greatest and my son lawrence was good to him i talked on this morning about it i said that one of the rest of world he was great but the last time we saw that stone and that turned me off and i think that person's we have the call of personality and hero worship in this country are largely fanned by advertising an endorsement where every baseball player every football player musician therefore by example is perfect and disarmament should be emulated i regret that i believe that the people such as the who had so much to offer and so much to give and to do so much positive also encourage people to follow them in some of their witnesses and you realize that in new york city a hundred years ago we are higher drug addiction rate per capita
that was in june no simon i'm a product of evolution you cannot throw that passed away and it was there i was hoping that from the young people we might get more topical reaction to what the adults were saying that person will also say like oh i'm sorry to say that i've heard over and over and over again from the older generation how they would agree but it is a problem and that something must be done and then they would continue of the attention on the double standard that they have all of your worst of this is that his son and other guns here because of those tannins one thing we do know that with him is that yes the final day heroes i feel very sad that young people are the warships of the folk heroes that they go because they didn't play music and they think that these people are just about perfect i haven't
any of rusted musician myself know and i know that some are problems you don't never emerge to the surface when i'm forming in public with just about shark you out of usaid and i hate to see somebody was having me to the point of being a late in my behavior mike massey looked like it had a reaction you guys really awful about the bill segment she'll and then it was informative and it was good it was good on a two point that we start talking about what was done and what should be done i'll you talk about what was done and then when you get into what was then you start thinking about low carb thousand ways of a manipulating of people and so the most things that you did do below all the bad things that you shot a compound used additionally the sandia wrangle edition we examine the role and then you look
at what's happening now my dues as i can really back to making seventy old imposing can really bad nineteen seventy i had inherited was happening out there now i can do without anything from the bill population was laughing that the adult population have to stop and listen to what we have to say that people have to stop being so job we really air the new scam was wednesday stalemate and don't tell me that were made back to eating solely because i came and i don't write me back to nineteen seventy because uk not wear you know we're really we know we were financing the voices of the results well a dissolution of the problem or the civil war was a big kids came back and so more open more thing which they have had reputations movies because it was the only service that they could be given
a lot of the guys had a sweater they'll call turkey and along kill themselves with but in about fifteen years they got out of another thing ticked up again at world war one not as bad it really really revived again in world war two and what we have known the vietnam war you'll know better than i this is a phenomenon that is related to the best and you are all taking aqaba know if you say that the past doesn't teach you anything you'd taken a shortcut because you just thinking about even with all of the involvement that many young people have found in various causes on one thing that seems to pop up and that is an absolute lack of fear of death or playing with things that quite possibly might lead to death and i think that this ties in with your attitude and how you react to a famous singer who you didn't admire i wonder whether or not you have any feelings about this for instance
if if young people who already know that for instance someone who they have heard of who they are familiar with has died possibly of drugs or because of their use of drugs certainly the use of drugs is pretty well known so let's say that it's fairly well known that in all probability they were playing around with something now if you as a young person to sign that perhaps you would like to experiment with drugs you already know that you're playing with something it's like lighting a match in front of a bonfire mr president you i love the way i used to look at i've known people have all of these interviews i was a look at low prices and run groups and now before using drones or even while using drones the thought of death really know it came out our currency i looked at the workload even now i look at them as
being un narrowly spaced out when they are aware of a lot of money and just to accidentally killing themselves isolated look at well as outside was using drugs thing a person while looking while using drones takes into consideration that founding a look at that they're jazz job and therefore jimi hendrix of that is that any effect whatsoever on the young people i don't think you want to react to tony's point of tony mentioned a lack of fear of death many times lack of fear of death comes from ignorance and perhaps this is something that we could get into the fact that many times people on so much unafraid of death is that they're unaware the rail of the full spectrum of bombay know that if a person has announced the needle there in the
aisle the person who gets hired and uses drones he uses drones because he convinces himself before your music but he can use this and only benefit the positive benefits in using drugs and many instances it is the very fears of death that allows a person to continue using it was because of the obvious reason for it you know so it is this the opposite that many times cause a person to use her son has already convinced himself when he uses drones that all of those people that might be is david greene or something else but it's because of some strange crippling alone mentality to cause them to die but this person who is still using drones is convinced that he has this thing under control to the point where he might reluctantly and they're doing a lot of things like going to jail but you won't
that every one of those i think it added to a loan it and he went to change towards the wave look at defending the no the way it used to look at my people and the older models of people saying one defending the idea says what was happening or something i wanted to do the only get a devoted to rap thing is that that get a javelin in guinea and he said so as an example i was really gonna have it out people tend to a look at what they did and to not look at again what they did do they did make good music with immediate double windows is that legal as sheldon needed a statement when he said that a reason to be war or something because i know that when i was asked that i thought that keegan was like embarrassing
out though that idea died from key cabinet i thought that all out though nothing where would you like to see us go what would you feel would be one of the best things that we could institute that would help reach young people linda oh it's stopped trying to understand this you know a lot of parents people today don't want to listen to young people down like i think i mean i sometimes you can't muster docile most adults cannot deal with the persons aren't jokes unless you've had experience and maybe you could call with it i know from experience that my parents couldn't deal with it to leave home and they leave home that's when you realize it's time to get aboard bit behind in this time to start realizing you know i had to deal with this problem too where does this entire evening leave us what do we have can we come up
with some sort of resolution for more on conversation not one solution not one master plan but can we come up with a resolution at least of mind if not of something the weekend at least get a police ourselves as ten individuals with some positive idea what to go out and do show and i think one thing is missing work and they've been contained in that painful tangent that we get an awful and that is we have this great big no completely honest with each other aside say that on the tables we have a bike how to tune to people oh we'll come from different backgrounds and that the show will go to some places to put people on the same show where the same way we all held means of the old problem the way
someone who's covered so why choose the committee both programs and someone just choose one to a mission's ability to evaluate what we can do and how can give the problem was frantically know we ourselves well certainly the fact that we have gathered together and i'm a program with tony nash and shot live in which would not have been done ten years ago is a great start for the i just think that old people have to start maybe it's a real icon now the real feel it's been doing on a one on one basis on and there you are you can do to community with the government or hello well i really think there is some kind of hostility and resentment and everybody knew they were you to leave it out when you see an i don't like you i think anything beyond that i think it is a ballet will always amazed that i've
said before i decide mind the ad tyler discussion on if people are listening to us now brown discusses that we're discussing and others daily wagers come from and do a more objective that would be was to be carried out everybody my butt of very good on a point that i've had to think about and thinking about what we would we do and we come into a room like this so that it would be nice you know the best monetize this very good to respect one another but it mad about the brown yes ma'am what letters a gorgeous <unk> i'd like to think it out for a loan might massive passive income while this evening lighter things linda to sing alongs thompson saw singular studios of noble mr james
or for coming this evening think of this you've been listening to come together next week come together presents a discussion about the life of a high school student in a program entitled high school students what they want what they need and what they should have come together was written and produced by sheldon levy and tony nash with production assistance from bonney lake technical supervision was provided by david mountain and then the daft this program was prerecorded new york
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- Come Together
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- Where Do We Go From Here?
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- WRVR (Radio station: New York, N.Y.)
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- The Riverside Church (New York, New York)
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- This episode focuses on resources to combat drug addiction.
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- A youth discussion program.
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- Social Issues
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- Drug addiction--Treatment
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- 00:59:35.520
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Host: Nash, Toni
Producing Organization: WRVR (Radio station: New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: WRVR (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Speaker: Levy, Sheldon
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- Chicago: “Come Together; Where Do We Go From Here?,” The Riverside Church , American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed November 8, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-528-s756d5qv0p.
- MLA: “Come Together; Where Do We Go From Here?.” The Riverside Church , American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. November 8, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-528-s756d5qv0p>.
- APA: Come Together; Where Do We Go From Here?. Boston, MA: The Riverside Church , American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-528-s756d5qv0p