Mr. Gingrich,<\/p>\n
For this you still owe our children an apology:<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the things they could do is work in a library, work in the front office, some of them frankly could be janitorial; what if they clean up the bathrooms, what if they mopped the floors, what if in the summer they repainted the school; what if in the process they were actually learning to work, learning to earn money; if they had their own money, they didn\u2019t have to become a pimp or a prostitute or a drug dealer. [If] they had the dignity of work and learned how to be around adults who actually wanted to mentor them and help them. This is not a casual comment\u2026 It grows out of a lot of thinking over many years of trying to figure out how do we break out people trapped in poverty who have no work habits.\u201d \u2014 Gingrich<\/p>\n
We, the students and faculty of the Delaware Annual Conference Ministerial Institute of the AME Church, representing over 34 congregations and their constituents throughout Delaware and southern Pennsylvania are outraged at your continued demeaning of poor children and their families.<\/p>\n