Book
Letters to a Young Victim: Hope and Healing in America's Inner Cities
By Armstrong Williams
Copyright 1995
Free Press Paperbacks
In this tough-minded and inspirational book, popular syndicated radio and television talk show host Armstrong Williams offers possible solutions and hopeful words to a community in crisis. In a series of letters to a young man called Brad, a drug dealer and murderer seeking to transform his life, Williams applies the lessons he learned growing up on a farm in Marion, South Carolina, and, later working in Washington's corridors of power to find answers to Brad's problems and the difficult questions facing America today, especially young black men. Williams conclusion is clear and powerful: only through hard work, faith, social responsibility, and individual empowerment can we create a better life for ourselves and our children.
"Penetrating...Armstrong Williams is eloquent, not patronizing or glib. He is a serious fellow confronting a vicious cultural morass, and, over and over he insists that individual choice and accountability are vital to any remedies." --WOODY WEST, The Washington Times
"A work of uncommonly clear common sense...Williams has some absolutely brilliant insights." --PAUL RUFFINS, The Washington Post Book World
"Mr. Williams' missives speak not only to Brad and to young black males like him, but also to the larger black community and the whole of American society." --JOSEPH PERKINS, The Wall Street Journal
