The speaker shares their experiences of facing challenges and violence while growing up in the Calumet Heights neighborhood in Chicago. They discuss the prevalent gang activity and the dangers they had to navigate as a child, shedding light on the ongoing issue of violence in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
Abdullah Pratt grew up in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in America, then returned to be an ER doctor in his neighborhood hospital. At the end of Revisionist History’s series on everything Americans get wrong about guns, we offer a final lesson on the obligations and costs of compassion.
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