february 11, 2007. two brothers are trapped on a high voltage electric tower 12 stories up. it was way too exciting for this mother. i just wanted them down. i wanted them down right then. i was terrified. for sandra mcneil, that day would be the longest of her life. i was just going on adrenaline. it was kind of makes your heart sink to see your boys up there. what unlikely turn of events would draw two boys to this terrible brink? the answer has everything to do with the special bond they share. 10-year-old john has autism. his brother james, 17, is devoted to his little brother. he was his brother s keeper. because he loves his brother, because he had been put in a position to watch out for his brother his whole life.
do you want 10 or 15 million more democrat votes in this country? i want more working self sufficient americans. there s nothing wrong with immigrants. what s wrong is dependence. if the president s philosophy, not even immigration policy that s the problem, come here. but if you can t support yourself, if you don t have a sponsor to support you, help you get started, then absolutely, you re not a drain on the american taxpayer. to your point, what does he say, $3 billion. why? because we are our brother s keeper. his only responsibility is to individual americans, not to take care of facilitate us taking care of anyone else but ourselves. the key words in what jonathan says is illegal. if you say you are legally processed, that s fine. if illegal, you should go home. one of the issues with the money that president obama asked for is a lot of it is earmarked for health care for illegals. it s also earmarked for setting
i know that in everything i was teaching my son to be, everything that i was trying to challenge him to be as a human being, to care about others besides himself outside himself. be his brother s keeper, basically. i know, in order to follow that legacy for jordan, i have to stand up. i have to continue to fight back. i have to challenge to change the gun culture in the country. otherwise i become the hypocrite. you can see the challenges as we talked about in those stores. what about washington? what about the politicians here. it s facing a rough road in congress in the state ace cross the country. what progress do you see being made on that level? i know that moms demand action, we have the gun sense voter campaign, which we re aggressively pushing right now. we re looking for over 1 million members, i mean, individuals to sign our campaign postcard stating when they got polls this
republicans posed every sengle thing, jobs, education. we re beginning to see things changing now. i think the great things that happened are the president s endorsing the idea of my brotherbrothe brother s keeper, the idea that people who have a record can still vote, shouldn t be deprifd the right to vote. and one of the republicans from kentucky supports the idea of people having a record being able to vote. he wants to put the folks in a sense back to work. i think those are good things in the 21st century and i m not giving up. i think we can bypass the court. the court has nine members and respond to legislative decisions and executive decisions but the court doesn t have the power to do a lot of things that the court did before. and i think we need to look at other areas, other important venues to make sure that the 21st century is as good if not better than the 20th century was. mark, what are those avenues?
35 of racist housing policies. not to mention the mass subprime plunder of the mortgage crisis. and we re talking about my br r brother s keeper. it s not the brothers that are the prob. it s the coopers that are the problem, and the women in the picture. these are the communities that we re talking about. these are interrelated networks. it s systems. it s the state. you behave like maya angelou s phenomenal women in school today as a phenomenal small young african-american girl you get taken out of the school and sus p suspended rates than any of the boys. brothers don t live in isolation. that s right. i m deeply disturbed by the my brother s keeper that basically says that it is young men of color who are uniquely impacted by the structural systems. the first time we see the