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C.O.R.E. (Congress Of Racial Equality) Members Missing….

• Andrew Goodman– White Male, age 20

• James Earl Chaney– Black Male, age 21

• Michael Schwerner– White Male, age 24

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Student Voter Registration VolunteersFound…Lynched

Chaney Family at Funeral

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This Just In…..

Ruby Bridges

First African-American to integrate William Frantz Elementary School New Orleans, Louisiana

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Little Rock NineCentral High SchoolLittle Rock, Arkansas

Ernest Green Elizabeth Eckford Jefferson Thomas Terrence Roberts Carlotta Walls Lanier Minnijean Brown-Trickey Gloria Ray Karlmark Thelma Mothershed-Wair Melba Pattillo Beals

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Heartbreaking News…

Four Young Girls

Killed

In Church Bombing

Birmingham, Alabama

Chicago Youth

Kidnapped & Lynched

Money, Mississippi

Today’s Lead Story…

Emmett Louis Till

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Emmett Till's disfigured and decomposing body was found in the Tallahatchie River…"I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett

Till," –Mamie Till Mobley

a 75 lb. gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire

Some 50,000 people viewed Emmett's corpse in Chicago, many leaving in tears or fainting at the sight and smell of

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That was then…

And now?

Today’s Headlines

Teens Charged in Armed Robbery with Pellet Gun--Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Teens Arrested For Videotaped Beating Of Elderly Man--January 24, 2007

Teens Crash Car During Police PursuitJanuary 23, 2007

Teens Charged with Stealing School Computers--January 22, 2007

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Today’s Headlines

Three Teens Face Felony Drug Charges

A Rise in Girl-on-Girl ViolenceHeadlines Nationwide

More Than 100 Teens in Mall Brawl

Teens Get Into A Fight Over CandyOne Arrested, Another Hospitalized

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What is your purpose?

What will your legacy be?

I refuse to be another black statisticA black man who can wine and dine in the sin of the world

and still be considered a Christian I plan on being greatI care not to be less

I refuse to wear a barcode across my chest I refuse to let a black tee or throwback jersey define me

I refuse to let my children witness divorce Or make mature decisions in court

I refuse to grow up carrying the generational curseI refuse to feel the need to curse in my verse

I hate being automatically looked at when someone asks can anyone rapI wanna be a black man that can flip it from urban to corporate measures

A black man who doesn't gain knowledge from the world for his own pleasures

A black man who reps Christ to the fullest with no regretsMy only regret is the stigma that many black statistics in the past have setLike going to jail, bragging about bail, leaving our kids, cussing at church,

married and you still flirt, no father present at birthAnimosity within the ministers of our church

I refuse to let my people be viewed as temporaryI plan on planting a seed not for the moment but for one that’s legendary

As for statisticsMy father broke the mode

And I feel its my job for the next generation to continue in itBecause I refuse to be another black statistic

Purpose