Bob Woodson
@BobWoodson • 78,740 subscribers
1937-2026. Founder of the @WoodsonCenter. Author/Editor - Red, White, and Black Vol. I & Vol. II, Lessons From the Least of These, and Triumphs of Joseph
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The South Philly neighborhood of my childhood - during segregation- had black-owned businesses on every corner, church baseball teams, and elderly folks could walk safely without fear. "We were broke, but we were not poor." Poverty doesn't have to be depravity. Watch our new series Resilience and Renewal| Episode 1: "The Turning Point" -
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53 murders in a five-square-block area; police afraid to enter; sixteen gang members brought to a meal; a peace treaty signed--Those same young men become volunteer coaches for 20-plus years. The police commander who witnessed this — Rodney Monroe, 22 years on the force — retired to become the national director of the Violence Free Zone. Without a badge. Without a gun. Because he knew it was more effective than anything he had done in two decades of law enforcement. WATCH: Resilience & Renewal Episode 4:
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We spent $22 trillion to “fight poverty.” But 70% of that money $15.4 trillion, never touched the poor. It went to the people who serve the poor, not the ones who are poor! That’s not liberation. That’s a business model. They don’t ask, “How do we solve it?” They ask, “How do we fund it?
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"It's about doing the right thing." Mr. Woodson had so many stories and so much knowledge.
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In episode 2 of the Woodson Center's Resilience and Renewal series, the late Bob Woodson gives a breakdown of how the anti-poverty industry is structurally incentivized not to solve the problems it claims to address. “The providers ask not which problems are solvable, but which ones are fundable this year.” Watch "The War on Agency": #RememberingBobWoodson #WoodsonLegacy
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“When whites were at their worst, Blacks were at their best." Ponder this statistic: during the Depression, when racism was enshrined in law and Black unemployment was 40%, the Black community had the highest marriage rate of any group in America. ‼️ WATCH >>
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"There are those who are in poverty but not of poverty. If, say, 70% of children raised in a low-income community are dysfunctional, educationally or otherwise, that means 30% are not. Nobody else, left or right of center, ever goes into these 30% of households to find out why people there are achieving against the odds.” - Bob Woodson [ Video clip from CER the Kemp Forum (2016)
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“I couldn’t let them see me crying.” The turning point came in a juvenile jail where I was working with sixty-five incarcerated kids. One day they stood up and applauded me. I lost it. This was my "burning bush" moment. It changed the trajectory of my life. Watch Resilience and Renewal Episode 1 before Episode 2 launches in May:
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We didn’t beg for freedom. We built it. When Booker T. Washington & Julius Rosenwald came together, we built 5,000 schools with our own hands and our own dollars. In twenty years, we closed a three-year education gap. Don’t tell me we can’t rise, we’ve already done it!
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![I was locked up in the Jim Crow South for raising civil rights issues on my Air Force base — but I refused to let injustice make me bitter. I refused to generalize. "For every [white] person who was vile and assaultive, I found a white friend." Resilience and Renewal | Episode 1: "The Turning Point" -](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2046567126291636698/amplify_video_thumb/2046305560082169856/img/ouVqmJiFA7gLkA4b.jpg)
I was locked up in the Jim Crow South for raising civil rights issues on my Air Force base — but I refused to let injustice make me bitter. I refused to generalize. "For every [white] person who was vile and assaultive, I found a white friend." Resilience and Renewal | Episode 1: "The Turning Point" -
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