Pauline looked at each face. “It’s really beginning to affect our community. My boy, James, he come home the other night and I could tell he’d been crying, but he didn’t want to talk to me about it. And when I finally forced him to tell me what was wrong, he told me he had been threatened by these gang members because he refused to join. They told him if he didn’t join, they’d do something to my house, like set it on fire. This had him so upset. I can’t tell you how long it had been since James had cried.” “I would think it would,” Pastor Benson replied. “But what scares me is it upset him so much he considered joining. We can’t have our children being threatened like this.” “You’re absolutely right.” Pastor Benson looked down. “And I tell you they’re bringing dope in here, and they’re selling it. Ain’t no telling what all isn’t going on,” Pauline continued. “And the kids see that money, and you know, it’s attractive to them when they compare it with folks who work like me, struggling hard just to make a living.
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