“When we’re all under attack we can’t afford to be fighting each other!”

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Tamar Manasseh, of Mothers Against Senseless Killing, with Chicago children. She is a leader in the fight to bring resources to the schools and schoolchildren whose futures are jeopardized by big money interests who are closing and privatizing schools.

 
CHICAGO — OK. We’re trying to build on the block this summer. They’re shutting the schools down in the fall, so all those 8th graders and the entire Robeson High School student body will be SCHOOL-LESS!!! THAT IS IMPORTANT.
You may feel like the schools in the neighborhood were shitty, and they were, but that was by design. You may have thought you weren’t educated in those schools, BUT YOUR KIDS WON’T EVEN HAVE THOSE SHITTY SCHOOLS TO GO TO!!!
Their lives won’t be nearly as good as yours, so if you think yours is bad, imagine their’s worse!
WE AREN’T LEAVING THE BLOCK AGAIN IN THE FALL! WE CAN’T!!!
We gotta stay out because technically, SUMMER IS NOT GOING TO END!
WE ARE ALL UNDER ATTACK RIGHT NOW! WE CAN’T AFFORD TO BE FIGHTING EACH OTHER!
I know that everybody is mad about something right now. Everybody is beefing with somebody right now. But what kills me is, the real threat, the real bad guy, the real life opps, AIN’T NOBODY BEEFING WITH THEM!!!!
They’re coming to lock you up, close your kid’s schools down and make them jail bait, take your houses, put you out of your city, but you mad at somebody they’re fucking over just as badly as they’re doing you?!?!? DAMN! HOW HARD IS THAT TO UNDERSTAND?
You wanna get your aggression out? Cool. I’ll tell you where to put it. Just stop putting it on each other!

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