I'm Alan Alder and this is Clear Invident, conversations about connecting and communicating.

Everyone who's walked through our doors, unspeakable things were done to them and that's

why they joined gangs.

It's not because of belonging or excitement.

They're imagining their funerals, they're not planning their futures.

At Homeboy we say you know love is the answer but tenderness is really the methodology.

That's part of the culture of the place.

You feel it, the minute you walk in the door, people will say wow what is this and that's

what it is.

It's really a palpable sense of tenderness.

Father Greg Boyle has done an amazing job of communicating with the population that

I'd think would be very hard to reach gang members and he's been successful with not

just a few of them but with thousands.

As I said to him when he visited with us at our studio, boy you are a hell of a communicator

and I feel free to say the word hell because since you're a priest you're probably

very familiar with that word.

Feel free to use any damn word you want to.

Well you must hear a lot of all kinds of language including course language in your work.

Yeah, I have a lot of Latinos and so English is not their first language so sometimes

they don't really know as a native speaker might how powerful and potent some you know

four letter words might be.

They use it kind of quite casually so but I'm quite used to it.

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