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"Jimmy's World" a really sad story
Posted on 5/21/17 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 5/21/17 at 3:16 pm
Wapo
This story was written in 1980 and won the Pulitzer Prize. It's a sad tale of a little boy in Wash DC who lived amidst poverty and drugs. It became an international sensation. It only has one problem.
This story was written in 1980 and won the Pulitzer Prize. It's a sad tale of a little boy in Wash DC who lived amidst poverty and drugs. It became an international sensation. It only has one problem.
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Posted on 5/21/17 at 3:37 pm to Zach
That was a good read
Posted on 5/21/17 at 3:39 pm to el Gaucho
Do you know where Jimmy is today?
Posted on 5/21/17 at 3:39 pm to Zach
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Do you know where Jimmy is today?
He was a complete fabrication. I remember when this went down.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 4:06 pm to DawgsLife
Yep. Duranty had some cover when he posted complete fabrications for the NYT about Russia. No one could go to the USSR and check it out. He won the Pulitzer Prize, too.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 4:28 pm to Zach
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Yep. Duranty had some cover when he posted complete fabrications for the NYT about Russia. No one could go to the USSR and check it out. He won the Pulitzer Prize, too.
I remember when newsmen actually printed the news and not complete fabrications and lies. Today it is hard to tell what is real and what is not.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 4:30 pm to Zach
From Wikipedia:
LOL at Marion Barry
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The story engendered much sympathy among readers, including Marion Barry, then mayor of Washington, D.C. He and other city officials organized an all-out police search for the boy, which was unsuccessful and led to claims that the story was fraudulent. Barry, responding to public pressure, lied and claimed that Jimmy was known to the city and receiving treatment; Jimmy was announced dead shortly after.[3
LOL at Marion Barry
Posted on 5/21/17 at 4:32 pm to Zach
Wow.
How did this even make it to print?!?
How did this even make it to print?!?
Posted on 5/21/17 at 4:34 pm to mule74
Berry was a joke. he was too busy snorting coke to know what was real and what was fake. I had forgotten about his involvement.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 4:35 pm to Zach
Yeah , I remember that . That's back in the day when journalism drummed out those who fabricated stories to further narratives and careers. Now CNN would call anybody who objected to the falseness of the story a racist and say " even if it's not true " before slurring anybody who disagrees with its premise.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 4:37 pm to Lsupimp
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" even if it's not true "
I wish you were wrong, but you're not.
What a messed up state of affairs.
This post was edited on 5/21/17 at 4:38 pm
Posted on 5/21/17 at 5:00 pm to Zach
The best part of it is Marion Barry said the city found him and he was receiving treatment
Posted on 5/21/17 at 5:15 pm to Zach
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I want to have me a bad car and dress good and also have me a good place to live," he says. "So, I pretty much pay attention to math because I know I got to keep up when I finally get me something to sell."
I for one applaud the young lad taking an interest in math.
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"The rest of them dudes on the street is sharp. You got to know how many of them are out there, how much they charge for all the different s---, who gonna buy from them and where their spots be . . . they bad, you know, cause they in business for themselves. Ain't nobody really telling them how they got to act."
And just amazing how young Jimmy is already demonstrating market awareness at the tender age of 8.
Someone should write a fictional story of how little Jimmy turned his life around and became a wall street investor.
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