Scandalous!
We are not our Mayor. We are not Defined by the Media...
You may think you know what our life is like. What our struggles are
You see all the negativity and go, "those poor girls."
"Hey...did you see what happened in Detroit last night?"
"Yeah, I saw that on the news"
But that is what's wrong with our city. People are more concerned with what the mayor is doing while these children are falling through the cracks.
Yes. Detroit may not the best place to be, but who cares?
It takes so much energy to focus on the negative that no one has time to see the positive.
For the sake of my sanity, I choose to take something negative and turn it into something positive.
The news is nothing more than a ratings war.
So stop judging my city by what you see on t.v.
Come see what's going on here for yourself
Youth are getting involved in the community, and that's just the beginning.
See, what you don't realize is what we are going through only makes us stronger.
Go ahead. Try to destroy us. Try to hold us back.
It's only fuel for us to teach from experience, lead by example.
Maybe you could do me a favor...
Put down the remote and help restore a sense of self and pride back into the youth of tomorrow, like people in Detroit try to do on a day to day basis.
"Wow, did you see that on t.v.?"
-Toddra (March 2008)
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