Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks says mentorship is an underrated pathway to change in America and calls on critics of the violence and poverty in Chicago to get involved rather than sit back and complain.

I live in a city where too many government bureaucrats and citizens want to see me fail. When I first moved to Chicago over 25 years ago, I never thought I would express such a sentiment.

My life’s purpose has been to minister to those seeking Jesus in their lives and to help youths escape a life of crime and poverty. You would think these are rational and commonsense goals that everybody can get behind. But we live in deeply ideological times when everything seems upside down at times.

Those who want me to fail call themselves allies to Blacks, but their actions always result in the same song and dance: keeping Blacks down and victimized.

The head of the Chicago Teacher’s Union blames white supremacy for the failure........

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