We'll see in New Orleans that hopelessness can't father change: Jarvis

DeBerry

        Jarvis had spent more than an hour talking, a small group of

black men, from high-school age to middle-age. He talking to

similarly sized groups of black men. They were talking, too:

about our childhoods, about the relationships we did or (in far

too many cases) did not have with our fathers. About our

definitions of masculinity, about overcoming obstacles and

disproving stereotypes. When he asked some black boy to share his

fondest memory from childhood, announced that he'd never had a

childhood. These are hopeless people. A fund will help those

people.