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=Reflections of America:Chicago =



 ==The Impoverished V. The Wealthy       == <span style="color: rgb(240, 50, 45)">

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 170%; color: rgb(240, 50, 45)">The Impoverished
<span style="display: block; font-size: 70%; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> "There ain't room enough for you an' me, for your kind an' my kind, for rich and poor together all in one country, for thieves and honest men. For hunger and fat." -Grapes of Wrath

All Cried Out
I’m all cried out, My tears don’t fall like they used too, And my voice is no longer strong enough To scream or shout. Now the pain can’t get out, For its buried within me very deep So I lost my will to speak, My appetite to eat, And rest because all night I toss and turn in my sleep. Because I’m all cried out, Funerals have lost their effect. I wouldn’t shed a tear, I’m just there to pay my last respect. Of course I’ll be upset. And possibly the candidate For the retaliation threat. Its strange because the pain Is not the same any more. It seems like I’m going insane, Because when I reminisce My soul feels sore. As I think back, I could see my friends falling to Their death in slow motion. During those years I shaded<span style="color: rgb(216, 50, 34); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> So many tears. I stood in the middle of my Own painful ocean.<span style="color: rgb(216, 50, 34); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Soaked and wet with tears, Because I’ve lost so many family and peers Through those years. Now as I stand my ground completely dry, Its another day the devil stands beside me Trying to figure another way To make me cry. Everyday I look up to the sky, And send my prayers to the Most High. So he would look over everybody and thing That will cause me to cry. Yes, I’m a confession sayer Now everyday GOD keep my tears away With prayer.. - Gold-D media type="youtube" key="o80wKKJI6uc&hl=en" height="355" width="425"

=<span style="color: rgb(221, 165, 54)">The Wealthy and their Gold Coast =

media type="youtube" key="bmOOYxU99fI&hl=en" height="355" width="425" <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">Chicago, chicago that toddling town Chicago, chicago Ill show you around - I love it Bet your bottom dollar youll lose the blues in chicago The town that billys sunday could not shut down

On state street that great street I just want to say They do things that they dont do on broadway - say They have the time the time of their life I say a man and he danced with his wife In chicago, my home town

<span style="color: rgb(206, 15, 13)">Patriotism: Excersizing our 1st Amendment Rights
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<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif"> Haymarket Affair 1886:

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 * Race Riots 1919:**

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 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif">Democratic National Convention 1968: **

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: center">"We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: center">-Will Rogers <span style="font-size: 210%; color: rgb(22, 146, 82); font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> ======

<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif">Ernie Banks 1931- Walter Payton 1954-1999 Michael Jordan 1963-
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Barack Obama 1961-
<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(233, 12, 30)">Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(247, 243, 243); background-color: rgb(26, 10, 189)"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(242, 44, 44)">Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition , So clear, of victory, <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(15, 9, 190)">As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear.

-Emily Dickinson  "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." -The Great Gatsby

<span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> The Promised Land
<span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> "She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom."

~//The Scarlet Letter//

<span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">[|To the Cities] <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">

<span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif"> Jim Crow Segregation Violence Economically Stuck Cotton Gin
 * Push Factors:**

No Jim Crow Economic Growth Factory Jobs New Opportunities
 * Pull Factors:**

<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(102, 31, 183); text-align: center; display: block">"First, the permeating and victimizing fact of human degradation, symbolized by the Southern struggle against racial bigotry, compelled most of us from silence to activism." <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(102, 31, 183); text-align: center; display: block"> -Port Huron Statement