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‘Day of Outrage’ decries urban violence ST. LOUIS — Residents of a broken north St. Louis neighborhood called Monday for a restoration of hope and dignity. In Atlanta, the Rev. Al Sharpton declared war on community violence and drug dealers.The gatherings Monday in St. Louis, Atlanta and more than 20 other American cities were part of the National Day of Outrage, a nationwide call to end violence in urban communities. The events were spearheaded by Sharpton’s National Action Network, a civil rights organization, and community leaders. Sharpton, speaking from the porch of his headquarters in gritty West Atlanta, said that too often, the perpetrators of crime and violence against blacks are other blacks. “We must be outraged when people who look like us, live with us and claim to be us, kill us,” Sharpton said. Sharpton said thugs are “a disgrace and a shame to the community” and blamed civil rights leaders like himself for failing to rein in violence. “None of us have done enough,” he said. About 30 people gathered in St. Louis’ Fountain Park neighborhood, once a proud, upper middle-class, African-American neighborhood that began to decline in the 1960s. “Every night, every day, there’s a killing, a shooting, a lot of nonsensical violence,” longtime resident and community organizer Anna Nicholas, 60, said. “There’s no parenting in the home. These children know no other route of getting attention.” |
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