In my hometown of Chicago, there are many people who push me to fail. In their eyes I commit this crime

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

My life's purpose has been to serve those who seek Jesus in their lives and to help young people escape a life of crime and poverty. You might think that these are rational, common-sense goals that everyone can support. But we live in a deeply ideological time where everything sometimes seems upside down.

Those who want me to fail call themselves allies of black people, but their actions always result in the same song and dance: keeping black people down and victimizing them.

The president of the Chicago Teacher's Union blames white supremacy for the failure of too many black children to read and do math at grade level.

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Our mayor decides to close some of the top performing schools that many young black people have fled to for a better education, because it wouldn't be fair to black people in low performing schools.

Our city's lawyers leave far too many crimes unsolved, allowing murderers to commit murder again, and yet they will bend over backwards to give this great exploiter of black pain for personal gain, Jussie Smollett, a table shave.

And these people want to see me fail because I don't buy into all their racial nonsense and because I refuse to empower race.

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My crime here is that I believe that everyone who crosses my path is an individual with all inherent unalienable rights and is an American. This is how I treat each of them. I don't care about your pigmentation, I see no virtue or crime in your skin, but I care about your soul, your character.

However, corruption of any kind is one of the oldest human stories. And the answer to corruption is one of the oldest known to man: faith. Faith is belief in God. Faith is a leap. Faith is trust in something greater than yourself. Faith is trust in one's neighbor. Faith is Good in the purest essence of this word.

They want to see me no longer believe in race. I believe in faith.

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I believe that the people I speak to are good souls. I believe that young people who face temptations on the street every day are good souls who need opportunities. I believe that I am that bridge between my people and the better world they seek, earthly and heavenly.

This is why I am not afraid of those who want to see me fail. Faith is light. Faith is hope. Faith is the strength of resilience. Faith creates opportunities.

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This is why I have never adhered to the false God of the race. God has shown me the power of faith time and time again, and I am more determined than ever to empower that faith for as long as He will let me walk this earth.

There is no greater sin than to betray this faith.

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