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# Eugene Rivers and the Boston Strategy
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2006111eugene-rivers-and-the-boston-strategy-html/
- Published: 2006-01-11T13:19:10.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:33:55.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Church, Family, #DashHouseCom, #wp

[A good article](http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article%5FType1&c=Article&cid=1136933412981&call%5Fpageid=968350130169&col=969483202845&ref=dashhouse.com) on the message of Eugene Rivers:

> The strong crime-fighting medicine prescribed by the preacher from Boston has been most bitter for black Toronto, if the grumbling in some quarters about “blaming the victim” is any indication.

> But the genius of the good Rev. Eugene Rivers is that he comforts and afflicts at the same time.

> He lambastes the “hug-a-thug, paleo-Liberals” who think social programs are going to remove guns from the hands of gangstas. And just when he has you nodding your head in agreement, he excoriates the neo-cons who want to spend millions of dollars on law enforcement “toys” instead of prevention and intervention….

> *“The middle class, the political leadership and the middle-class church have turned their backs on the poor,”* Rivers told a meeting of the Etobicoke Strategy, a group of ministers and church leaders in Rexdale, yesterday.

More on the Boston Strategy [here](http://www.bostonstrategy.com/?ref=dashhouse.com) and [here](http://www.bostontenpoint.org/?ref=dashhouse.com). Dr. Rivers only covered one point of the [ten-point strategy yesterday](http://www.bostontenpoint.org/tenpointplan.html?ref=dashhouse.com) (that churches adopt youth gangs) but that was challenging enough.