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I need to pray and I need to write.   I have been writing for as long as I could put together decent sentences.   I need to pray for patience and for God to take this hatred and anger out of my heart.   I need to write because it’s like free therapy for me.   By now, I’m sure you are intimately familiar with the Trayvon Martin case.   If you aren’t, he’s the young man that was shot down in the street like a dog by a bigoted, “wanna be cop,” vigilante calling himself a neighborhood watch captain.   First of all, George Zimmerman was not registered with the Sanford Police Department.   Secondly, he has a record so he had no business carrying a gun in the first place.   I have listened to a 911 call that Anderson Cooper had and you can clearly hear George Zimmerman calling Trayvon Martin a “coon.”   For those of you that are unfamiliar with this term, it is considered a racial slur.   Since the Sanford Police Department refuses to...

What if instead of just teaching children the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic we also taught them how to become entrepreneurs?   What if we started them on a journey of self-development at a very early age?   Just imagine how much further along they would be on their journey of self-actualization if they started sooner rather than later. Well, there is no need to imagine any longer!   I am going to embark on this journey with the few select students that enroll in our School’s Out Summer Camp.   We are going to spend eight weeks researching business models for young people and working on self-development along with having a great time doing purely fun-filled kid stuff and preparing academically. At the end of eight weeks, they are going to be ready to either start their own business or put the funding and preparation in place to start it when they are older.   They can always go and get traditional summer jobs but just suppose they could ...