Speaker 1: I See's Daily Game. It's a production of iHeartRadio. What's
Speaker 1: Up in Size See You're listening to the Daily Gang,
Speaker 1: a compilation of motivational quotes I've collected over the years
Speaker 1: that I found inspiring and helped me through the game
Speaker 1: of life. Today's quote comes from the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglas,
Speaker 1: and Frederick Douglas said, it's easier to build strong children
Speaker 1: than to repair broken men. Wow, this is so true.
Speaker 1: You know, a child is something that you can really
Speaker 1: create early understandings about things, give them the knowledge they
Speaker 1: need to grow up and to become very productive citizens.
Speaker 1: Become productive people. A man is usually already stuck in
Speaker 1: his ways. It's hard for him to change. I can
Speaker 1: relate this to the gangs. I was working with different
Speaker 1: gang charities in south central Los Angeles. One called Hands
Speaker 1: Across Watts, one called Save the Babies, and we were
Speaker 1: working on gang members. What we realized was it's easier
Speaker 1: to stop kids from joining gangs than to get kids
Speaker 1: that are already indoctrinated into the gang culture out. It's
Speaker 1: easier to prevent a child from becoming a racist than
Speaker 1: to take a racist and change their ways. A lot
Speaker 1: of these things have to deal with indoctrination. A lot
Speaker 1: of things have to deal with habits. If you grow
Speaker 1: up and have lazy habits, you're going to become a
Speaker 1: lazy adult. If you learn a work ethic early, it's
Speaker 1: going to translate throughout your life. So working with kids
Speaker 1: is much easier than changing adults because a kid is
Speaker 1: kind of like an open format, like we program our children.
Speaker 1: Children aren't born racist. You take a black kid, white kid,
Speaker 1: Asian kid, put them all together in a sandbox. They'll
Speaker 1: play until some adult comes and fucks up their head.
Speaker 1: They don't know any better, and they don't naturally hate
Speaker 1: each other. They don't even understand race. My daughter, she
Speaker 1: doesn't understand race yet until some adult comes and contaminates them.
Speaker 1: So we have a lot of responsibility with kids because
Speaker 1: we as adults are the ones that mold them and
Speaker 1: create them into adults. Trying to work on some of
Speaker 1: the ways some of us are stuck in our ways,
Speaker 1: whether it be good or bad, it's just much much,
Speaker 1: much more difficult. So Frederick Douglas said, it's easier to
Speaker 1: build strong children than to repair broken men. That's a
Speaker 1: jewel right there, because it's definitely true. It's definitely true.
Speaker 1: So as parents is our job to create strong children
Speaker 1: with good morals and good understandings about life so that
Speaker 1: they could that on into their life. This has been
Speaker 1: another ice cold fact from me, iced tea. Listening again
Speaker 1: tomorrow when I drop some wisdom on your ass till then,
Speaker 1: stay safe, stay smart, and stay knowing. Our kids are
Speaker 1: the future, and investing in them is investing in ourselves.
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