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Glad i went through, because now i recognize it s okay to get help. when there are so many people that i was classify as ticking time bombs because they don t know it s okay to have someone to talk to. you re living below the poverty line. you re seeing dead bodies. throughout the entire summer, your family members are being killed. the government is not responding to your needs. it is okay to say i need help. people that have money and privilege in america, they get a lot of mental health support, and not going through 1/10 or 1 /100 on the south side. they can afford it. they got the time. that s the thing that pains me about chicago. its tale of two cities. my chicago doesn t get that help. but there is a whole another chicago that gets all the help and the resources that they need. when we return, our special ....
Now i recognize. it s okay to get help. there s so many people that i was classified as ticking time bombs, because they don t know it s okay. to have someone to talk to. you re literally below the poverty line. seeing dead bodies. throughout the summer, family being killed, government not responding to your needs. it is okay to say i need help. people that have money and privilege in america get a lot of mental health support and not going through one tenth or one one hundredth of the experiences you feel on the south side? they can afford, too. they be afford it, got the time. and that s the thing that pains me about chicago. it s the tale of two cities. my chicago doesn t get that help. but there s a whole another chicago that gets all the help and the resources that they need. when we return, our special ....
What the hell is happening there? chicago is out of control. this is not like it s the united states of america. what the hell is going on in chicago? attacking the city of chicago has always been a big hit with donald trump s rally crowds. more than 3,000 people have been shot in chicago since january 1st. that s, like, worse than the war torn nations. worse than afghanistan. give donald trump a chance. i will fix it! what do you have to lose? you have nothing to lose. when he became president the people of chicago became his constituents. but it didn t change the way he talked about them. tweeted about the murder rate in chicago saying, if chicago doesn t fix the horrible carnage going on, i will send in the feds. you will send in the feds. what do you mean? carnage. it is carnage. horrible carnage. this is afghanistan is not like what s happening in chicago. i want them to fix the problem. ....
Environment. when you zoom out, you can see a neighborhood neighborhoods in new york city, for instance, went through unbelievable amounts of gun violence, and it came way down. the poverty was never addressed. the neighborhoods the neighborhoods are the same. people are still poor, still struggling. violence came way down. 2,300 murders in new york city in 1992 and 350 last year. there s neighborhoods in new york that we re seeing chicago levels of violence. they came down. but that in east new york now and choodsing a neighborhood in brooklyn among the city s poorest, it s still poor there. so there are different problems. you can imagine a world in which violence comes down, and that s a net benefit to the community, but that s just part of what would have to change to make inglewood a place that feels vibrant. it would start out as a working class community in the 60s and 70s. it s one of the poorest communities in the country now. that s because underlying issues hav ....
autry phillips runs target area redevelopment. among their missions, putting former gang members in outreach programs to try to stop violence on the streets. in this neighborhood of inglewood and spots across the city, there s great need. right? these communities have been depleted far long time, some would say starved, right? yeah. what do the communities actually need? what the community is lacking is hope. you re talking about trying to instill hope in individuals who are living in a community or in a situation where it s hopeless. where the men in our community are unemployed. the women in our community are under employed. every community should have one place where all the kids can feel safe. you don t have those places now? there are some places but we have to understand that there are gang lives. onest. there are some that groups ....