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Edited on Tue Sep-08-09 12:48 PM by KingOfLostSouls
how many kids will not join a gang?
will not become a drug dealer?
will not drop out?
maybe will be inspired a little?
maybe will just do their homework?
will finally ask a question in math class they were afraid to ask before in fear of being called stupid?
how many kids will look in the mirror and realize the color of their skin, or the money their family has, or the clothes they wear does not define them, but the power of their mind and their will to succeed can drive them?
it's not the kids that already knew how to achieve that needed to hear it, but it undoubtedly reinforced their goals they already have.
it's the kids who were on the path to nowhere that needed to hear it. and not hear it from someone who doesn't look like them or talk like them or been raised in the lap of luxury in kennebunkeport and knows nothing of the lives they live in Compton, Oakland, Detroit, etc.
but from someone like them, who came from where they came, and who looks like them. from someone who understands the hardships of race, of poverty, of being raised in a single parent house hold. someone just like them.
how many kids NEEDED to hear our President, THEIR president, today?
how many of them needed to be inspired the way FDR or Kennedy inspired?
how many needed to be inspired the way we were?
Yes, we can.
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