A Night on the Streets of Chicago with Corey Brooks

Walsh Freedom ^ | July 28, 2014 | Joe Walsh

[re_tail20]

Pastor Corey Brooks is a giant on Chicago’s South Side, both figuratively and literally. Standing over six feet tall, the pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago is more than just a man of the gospel. To the neighborhood he serves, he’s a preacher, a mentor, a role model, and more importantly, he’s everything that the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson aren’t — an outspoken advocate and spokesman for the betterment of the lives of everyone in his community.

I first met Pastor Brooks last year when I wanted to get involved in solving the problem of violence that has plagued Chicago’s west and South Side neighborhoods. Since then, I’ve become a personal friend of the pastor, and have been happy to join him in several endeavors to raise money for Project HOOD — the program he established to teach youths the importance of personal responsibility,

HOOD stands for “Helping Others Obtain Destiny.” It’s a mission aimed at raising awareness that prosperity can be attained through means other than the gang-related activities that too many of Chicago’s black children have experienced. Through this program this summer, Brooks and his church launched an ambitious goal to recruit 5,000 “Brothers on the Block” to patrol some of Chicago’s most dangerous intersections.

The concept is simple: a visible presence on the corners would deter violence, while at the same time it would show neighborhood’s residents something more positive. This past Friday, I became a “Brother on the Block” alongside Pastor Brooks, but the night was more than anything I could have ever anticipated.

Around 8pm, I met the pastor at his church, located at Martin Luther King Drive and 66th Street. On this night, Pastor Brooks wanted to set up shop at one of Chicago’s most dangerous intersections, 79th and Cottage Grove...

[RetiredTexasVet]

A revolutionary like that will eventually become the target of the city, unions, pseudo-preachers, and gangs.

[IChing]

The only remedy possible is a drastic cultural revolution kn which people are severely chastised for conduct which leads to out-of-wedlock births. This may be extremely difficult to accomplish, but simple and would not cost billions as do the myriad failures of politically correct programs which purport to address the problem. There needs to be a strong leader who pulls no punches and sends the liberals packing, or converts them by sheer conviction.

[cherry]

I do pity the American blacks that want to live civilized....sadly, a large minority of them are druggies, criminals, violent, hateful, unwilling to be educated to their detriment...its an uphill battle, and by uphill I mean K2 uphill....