Father Greg Boyle’s Speech
I learned about Father Greg two years ago in my Community Economic Development (CED) legal clinic at UCLA. It was such an amazing class and homeboy industries was my favorite visit. I felt so much more at home at their offices with ex-gang members, homeboys & homegirls, running the show. My 10 classmates could not have known how familiar the place felt to me … more than law school!
Father Greg gives me hope. Listen to his speech (link below) and Q&A.
My own take on it is to be kind until she finds her own truth. Show her the value of her own truth, because her truth will give her hope. Her hope will give her a sense of worth. And a hopeful girl who feels like she is worth something, will use the knowledge & resources she has to protect herself. A hopeless girl may not. And an unaware girl without resources simply can’t.
We are all the same. We are all in the same community, and healing ourselves is community building.
Thank you Father Greg Boyle. You’re my inspiration too!
Rev. Greg Boyle
http://wordforword.publicradio.org/programs/2007/11/02/
November 2, 2007
Rev. Greg Boyle is the founder of Los Angeles-based Homeboy Industries, an organization that gives jobs to young men and women who agree to give up the gang life. They make T-shirts and tacos, do maintenance and landscaping work, and in the process Boyle says they find a sense of self-worth. Rev. Boyle described his mission to “plan futures, not funerals” in an Oct. 25 speech in Minneapolis.