I See's Daily Game. It's a production of iHeartRadio. What's Up in Size See You're listening to the Daily Gang, a compilation of motivational quotes I've collected over the years that I found inspiring and helped me through the game of life. Today's quote comes from the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglas, and Frederick Douglas said, it's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Wow, this is so true.
You know, a child is something that you can really create early understandings about things, give them the knowledge they need to grow up and to become very productive citizens. Become productive people. A man is usually already stuck in his ways. It's hard for him to change. I can relate this to the gangs. I was working with different gang charities in south central Los Angeles. One called Hands Across Watts, one called Save the Babies, and we were
working on gang members. What we realized was it's easier to stop kids from joining gangs than to get kids that are already indoctrinated into the gang culture out. It's easier to prevent a child from becoming a racist than to take a racist and change their ways. A lot of these things have to deal with indoctrination. A lot of things have to deal with habits. If you grow up and have lazy habits, you're going to become a lazy adult. If you learn a work ethic early, it's
going to translate throughout your life. So working with kids is much easier than changing adults because a kid is kind of like an open format, like we program our children. Children aren't born racist. You take a black kid, white kid, Asian kid, put them all together in a sandbox. They'll play until some adult comes and fucks up their head. They don't know any better, and they don't naturally hate
each other. They don't even understand race. My daughter, she doesn't understand race yet until some adult comes and contaminates them. So we have a lot of responsibility with kids because we as adults are the ones that mold them and create them into adults. Trying to work on some of the ways some of us are stuck in our ways, whether it be good or bad, it's just much much, much more difficult. So Frederick Douglas said, it's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. That's a
jewel right there, because it's definitely true. It's definitely true. So as parents is our job to create strong children with good morals and good understandings about life so that they could that on into their life. This has been another ice cold fact from me, iced tea. Listening again tomorrow when I drop some wisdom on your ass till then, stay safe, stay smart, and stay knowing. Our kids are the future, and investing in them is investing in ourselves.
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