The Hope For Derrion Albert • 09.28.09
WRITTEN BY MICHAEL SKOLNIK FOR GLOBALGRIND.COM
In the same city, the same windy city, where young Barry Obama walked through the streets to organize a community…the same city where Walter needed a Refrigerator to win a Super Bowl…the same city that in ‘68 made students run for their lives…the same city that needed Common Sense to understand the Twisted rhymes of a rapper…a city whose doors were opened up by Mr. West…a windy, cold city that we call “The Chi.” In this same city, Chi-Town, The Windy, The Chi, Chicago — this same city…has been brought to her knees…and we fall right there with her.
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