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Bus trip to civil rights landmarks encourages Cleveland teens

It was seeing the seemingly endless line of young men, in their caps and neatly pressed gowns, marching toward the Morehouse College campus for graduation ceremonies that thrilled them mostly.

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Led by Timothy Roberts Sr., a former police officer who is now a mentor and father figure to the teens, the trip, in its second year, is a chance for the boys to be out of their often turbulent environments and see the accomplishments of other black men and women and the struggles they endured to achieve them.



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  1. Although, I personally am so far to the left, that even the even the democrats appear to me to be “right-wing,” I consider myself to be a strict constitutionalist. It is my opinion that since its inception there has been an organized and systematic assault by the conservatives in the United States on the civil liberties written into the US Constitution. The “War on Drugs”; “War on Terror”; “War on Communism” and a host of other wars waged by the right wing are really nothing more than a War on People–an excuse to erode civil rights to the point of non-existence. I invite you to my website devoted to raising awareness on this puritan attack on freedom: http://freethegods.blogspot.com/

    Comment by David Scott — June 2, 2009

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