"Give me a ticket to the next bus that’s leaving,"

[Contrary1]

Nice story about how this young man escaped a life of poverty and crime.

"ELKHART, Ind.— Adam Williams’ improbable journey to Elkhart began in a hail of bullets on a dark road in the Mississippi Delta at 2 a.m. one morning in 1992.

“I just didn’t even believe it was happening,” said Williams, 35, who with his wife, Maggie, 31, now owns two popular Elkhart restaurants and is planning to open a third.

Leaving a nightclub with his brother, sister and sister’s boyfriend, Williams watched what seemed like a surreal slow-motion video as two vehicles full of masked gunmen drove by each side of their car with automatic rifles and handguns blazing. Then the attackers turned around and made another pass.

His sister was shot seven times and her boyfriend also was hit, wounds from which they recovered. Williams and his brother escaped unscathed from what was likely payback for an earlier fight..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31832055/ns/us_news-the_elkhart_project/#sp-tx/page-2

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. What a great story!

The Williams family is really helping out the entire community--so good to read about small businessmen and women giving back. And so good to see a couple stand up to racists!