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Rooftop Revelations: Single mother in Chicago's South Side defies the odds, keeps son on the path to success
FOX News.com ^ | February 9, 2022 | Eli Steele

Posted on 02/09/2022 7:29:37 AM PST by Kaslin

CHICAGO – Nearly two months ago, Pastor Corey Brooks proclaimed that race was the least of his community’s problems. Yet so many Americans outside his community would insist that race is the root of its poverty, illiteracy and violence. What these Americans fail to realize is that engaging in race talk or race policies does nothing to uplift or inspire individuals to great heights. If that were true, the pastor’s community would be thriving by now.

The only thing race is capable of is oppression at its worse and patronization at its best. One might argue that racial engineering in the name of diversity is a form of uplift, but that is not true. The power for true uplift can only take place within the soul of the individual.

Zipporah Collins raised her son, Mario Hoover, with this universal truth. Though she worked several jobs as a single mother, she raised him with love and stayed present in his life no matter the challenges. There was nothing magical about her approach — just the universal principles of woodshedding and setting the bar higher and even higher. Last week, her son, a junior at Providence St. Mel School, scored a perfect score of 36 on the ACT, a feat achieved by only 0.313% of all the test-takers.

On the 81st day of his 100-day rooftop vigil to raise funds for a community center designed to provide support systems to low-income students, the pastor invited Collins to the chilly roof for a conversation by the campfire.

"I wanted to talk to [Collins] because she's a single mom, but she has done everything that we need mothers to do in our neighborhood" where "80% of the households are single parent households," the pastor began.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: rooftoprevalations

1 posted on 02/09/2022 7:29:37 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“80% of the households are single parent households”

And therein lies the problem.


2 posted on 02/09/2022 7:42:19 AM PST by technically right
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To: Kaslin

Progressives give blacks “the best” they have to offer - bureaucratic crappy schools, dangerous and dirty streets, broken families, abortion, destructive ideology

And as a cheap salve are told - its nothing to do with you. Its racism!

Most still swallow it all too.


3 posted on 02/09/2022 7:42:28 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Kaslin

Another Ben Carson in the pipeline?


4 posted on 02/09/2022 7:44:41 AM PST by blackdog (# We Are Corn-Pop, turn off the news.)
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To: technically right

““80% of the households are single parent households”

that blew me away too.


5 posted on 02/09/2022 7:52:51 AM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: technically right
The only thing race is capable of is oppression at its worse and patronization at its best. One might argue that racial engineering in the name of diversity is a form of uplift, but that is not true. The power for true uplift can only take place within the soul of the individual. ...“80% of the households are single parent households”

Democrat policies tossed black men out of the home. Now democrats want to pay for free crack pipes for 'undeserved communities' - meaning blacks and minorities. Traditional black families DO NOT WANT FREE CRACK PIPED FOR THEIR CHILDREN - IT'S A FORM OF ENCOURAGING EVIL.

When democrats reward evil - and kneecap good people - they ARE encouraging evil. WE NEED TO STAND WITH TRADITIONAL BLACK AMERICANS.

6 posted on 02/09/2022 8:45:55 AM PST by GOPJ (GUNS DON'T COMMIT CRIMES - CRIMINALS COMMIT CRIMES)
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