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The Dwaine Caraway Show
Continued from page 5
Published: March 27, 2008After our day together, after the many phone talks and office visits, I tested that underlying accusation one day without really meaning to. He was talking to me about the importance of the small things—persuading the code enforcement officers to crack down on derelict properties, pressuring the cops to crack down on street prostitution and, yes, trying to create peer pressure to persuade young men to pull up their damn pants.
I played devil's advocate: Are you not betraying the community you grew up in by snitching people out to City Hall? What about the idea that what happens in the 'hood stays in the 'hood?
It was the first time in 10 years of talking to him that I have heard anger in his voice. The idea that you can't call the cops or code enforcement when someone in the neighborhood is doing wrong, he said, amounts to condoning the wrong.
"That's saying the hell with breaking up a family, the hell with having crack babies born, the hell with the future of a crack dealer and those that are getting hooked on it, the hell with ever getting a job and having a productive life.
"I say the hell with whoever condones it. The condoning is what got us in trouble now."
There definitely is a Dwaine Caraway Show. It's interesting. It's complicated. Some of it is total bullshit. But that part was not.
According to Caraway's website, he went to Roosevelt, not Lincoln.
Comment by Nathan — March 26, 2008 @ 04:55PM
Caraway wants to be mayor. So suck up to Leppert and flog issues like saggy pants that appeal to white voters.
Comment by Farinata X — March 30, 2008 @ 01:56PM
To Fariniata X,
You either can't read or skipped the part about the crack houses and the new hospital. Ignorant comments like that keep Dallas going in a circle.
Comment by Moe — March 31, 2008 @ 08:12AM
There are more important issues to deal with than a mofo wanting to have his pants dangling. Let's focus on the real issues like dropout rates and literacy. Silly rabbit bullshit gets you on television.
Comment by G A — May 6, 2008 @ 02:56AM