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Robert Woodson: Empowerment Advocate |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / PEOPLE IN THE NEWS |
| Author: Robert R. Selle |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2001 |
| Size: 936 Words, 5,735 Characters |
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His secret for defusing community violence, he says in an interview, is to identify the neighborhood "Josephs"--the street-level leaders whom community residents trust--and then make friends with them and show them how they can make a difference during crises. Joseph refers to the biblical story of how the wise and "street-smart" Joseph and the all-powerful pharaoh of Egypt forged a partnership that led to immense prosperity for the empire, even during seven years of terrible famine.
The 62-year-old Woodson, who founded the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (NCNE) in 1981, has a dream--namely, that this biblical story become reality in modern America in a big way. If it happens as he envisions...
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And how can whites and blacks accomplish moral and spiritual reconciliation? "By working together and solving the problems," he says, "looking for solutions among the Josephs, working together to support those cures, and learning from the people who have fashioned cures to drugs and alcohol and violence and crime. "And in the process of helping them, you become healed yourself."
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