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Published: Saturday, 14 September 2013 16:57
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Written by Britt Lyle
Mr. President I would think that I speak for many people, not only in America, but around the Planet when I ask, how is it that you can make a case for War with Syria for the deaths of children in a War-Zone of a foreign country and not make a case for the War on inner City violence for the nearly 700 Chicago school children were shot and the 66 of them who died in Chicago during 2010 and since that time?
Last year in a major U.S. city that is the home to both Presidents Obama & his hero Abe Lincoln, Mayor Rahm Emanuel attended memorial services for the 260 school children who had been killed in just the previous three years. On several occasions in the past year, tens of people have been shot in the streets of Chicago in a single weekend.
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Published: Thursday, 18 July 2013 14:03
For The Children … Let’s be real
They say to keep smiling
stay strong and keep the peace
But I live in a world that says I don’t matter
in slippery ways too hard to pin down
“Don’t be weak and wipe your tears” they say
“and stop playing the race card when you don’t get your way”
So today, I pray
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