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# Band-Aid on a Gaping Chest Wound
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1576/
- Published: 2005-07-06T14:41:21.000Z
- Updated: 2005-07-06T14:41:21.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

> Members of Epiphany Baptist Church on McDuff Avenue asked city officials in late June to consider banning cosmetic gold teeth and low-hanging pants. Church deacon Richard Burton said higher waistlines and whiter smiles could wipe away the thuggish image many young people project -- and that change could help Duval County cut unemployment, racial profiling and a rising per-capita murder rate now the highest in the state.

[Link](http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/070305/met%5F19152913.shtml?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

A classic case of attacking the symptoms instead of the disease.