Reddit reviews Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives

>No, until something can be shown to make a significant difference, gestures such as these don't count. They are great PR and really not much more.

Please quantify "significant difference."

Sounds to me like you want people living in impoverished communities with subpar access to education and resources to do what academics and PhDs working for the government have failed to do after decades of research on intervention programs.

>Every quote given talks about uniting, and the only one that gives any context to what they are uniting for is in support of BLM.

BLM is never even directly mentioned. Or is everyone who is upset about the police killings of young black men now part of BLM whether they like it or not?

And here's a bunch of lines that have nothing to do with uniting against the police:

>Ben “Taco” Owens, who supervises gang-intervention workers at a local nonprofit, told the group that he believes “that you’re here because you want to change.”

>“This is a very, very critical moment in our city and in our lives,” he said, adding that  two people were killed in Gardena, where he is from, in one week.

>Michael “Big Mike” Cummings, a gang-intervention worker in Watts, said he is “sick and tired of losing our babies.”

>"The only thing that needs to be divided by colors is our laundry,” he said.

>After the event, Dom Black, a 22-year-old who was raised in the surrounding neighborhood of Westmont, stood outside the church. Black said he has been beat up and shot at in his community and wants to see a change.

>"I came out here because I feel like the change starts inside,” he said.

But--let me guess--those don't count.

>The idea that these people are actually going to unite over 'black lives' is hilarious. If they gave even 2 fucks about their fellow blacks then they wouldn't be killing them over corners and 'respect'.

So everyone in this black community is a gang member and a murderer?

>Show me a shred of anything that shows that actual change is going to come from such a PR stunt.

No one can predict the future, but, if you want evidence that change could come from this, try this book.

>I mean it was held in a Church of Scientology building ffs. You really think they are doing that out of the goodness of their hearts?

Lmao. You're criticizing them for the building they're using, really? That was probably the only building they could get on such a short notice that was also big enough to fit everyone and wouldn't require people to travel far to get to.