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Understand, behind the words there is an initiative, there's a work group. there's an effort to -- >> cornell, what's one thing that all of us can do to make a difference? >> well, give back. just go into your community and mentor someone. there's great mentorship programs in every community. just go out there and mentor programs. one thing, barack obama as a role model is not always transactional but to a lot of african-american men and women, one thing that they fell in love with barack obama was that this was an ideal that they want for their children to look up to, this man with this wonde...

We're not going to create some big new government program. but we're going to work with communities, businesses, so that, you know, whether it's helping to set up early childhood education so that young people can read early, or it is creating mentorship programs and apprenticeship programs so that a young person can get exposed to what a career is like in, you know, a factory as a machinist where you're getting paid $30, $35, but you may not even know that that option is available. across the board from the time they're young all the way through their first job, we want to help more young afr...

We're just going to focus on young men of color and find ways in which we can create more pathways to success for them. we're not going to create some big new government program. but we're going to work with communities, businesses, so that, you know, whether it's helping to set up early childhood education so that young people can read early, or it is creating mentorship programs and apprenticeship programs so that a young person can get exposed to what a career is like in, you know, a factory as a machinist where you're getting paid $30, $35, but you may not even know that that option is ava...

We're going to work with communities, businesses so that whether it's helping to set up early childhood education so young people can read early or it is creating mentorship programs and apprenticeship programs so that a young person can get exposed to what a career is like in, you know, a factory as a machinist where you're getting paid 30 to $35 an hour but you might not even know that that option is available. across the board from the time they're young all the way through their first job, we want to help more young african-american men, latino men, succeed. >> we've got more on the interv...

It. >> tends to be a nice person comes and protects him out to the new york american having play games and take him to the movies and gets him touring and helps him in school. >> reporter: that's what they do? >> that's what they do. and anger at what they want. >> reporter: bihi say and others in this community have created mentorship programs for young somaliians here and have repeatedly shown them tv images of al shabaab terrorist attacks to counter the recruiting but he says the recruiting is still going on. emotional torture for one mother. what did they take from you when they took this ...