My Time Will Come by Ian Manuel
Author:Ian Manuel [Manuel, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2021-05-04T00:00:00+00:00
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In 1996 Princeton political scientist John Dilulio sparked widespread social panic when he put forth a novel theory about juvenile delinquencyâwhich he has since retracted given how stunningly wrong all of his predictions turned out to beâsounding an alarm about the advent of a ânew breedâ of black inner-city youth whom he called âsuperpredators.â âFatherless, Godless, and jobless,â they are âradically impulsive, brutally remorseless youngsters, including ever more teenage boys, who murder, assault, rob, burglarize, deal deadly drugs, join gun-toting gangs, and create serious disorders.â4 This was the media landscape in which an interview with Debbie Baigrie (âI Forgave the Guy Who Shot Meâ)5 was published in the now defunct McCallâs magazine.
Debbie described the excruciating toll my crime had exactedâthe shooting had ripped up her mouth and gums, requiring years of painful reconstructive surgery. But with dignity and empathy, she added:
[A] glimpse of Ianâs bleak life made me reflect on my own circumstances, the reasons I have to be thankful: a husband with a good job as an electrical engineer, a great family, a beautiful home, many caring friends. So, hoping I could make Ianâs life a little better, I began a correspondence with him. My husband didnât approve. âForget him!â Stephen said. âHe can just rot.ââ¦It would be wonderful to end this story with the news that Ian has been completely rehabilitated. But reality is seldom so neat. What I am grateful for is that Ian seems to be finding himself, that I have not only recovered but have been able to develop a relationship with my attacker and that I have found a new direction for my life. I still get a lot of pressure to stop bothering about Ian, but he needs a friend. And for reasons I donât fully understand myself, I intend to go on being that friend.
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