Jefferson and Darien Streets, North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
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 April 19, 2001.

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Living where it is perceived to be far, far away from the inner city, they sleep soundly knowing that they will never venture into the inner city.  The writing is on the wall, the decay of the inner city affects all of society.  There is no one segment of today's society that is immune. As the neighborhoods of the inner cities crumble, so does the foundation on which we as Americans stand.  Prosperity once thrived bountifully, creating great architecture, whose presents is still visible even in the most impoverish neighborhood.  America can not build a new society separate from the old.  America must rebuild the existing society, it the only one we got.
April 22, 2001.

Perched high atop City Hall, with tools in hand, the pioneers scan the western horizon.  It is time for the ancestors of those pioneers to look back from where they came and open their eyes to the plight of Philadelphia.  
April 25, 2001.