Chicago Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks says Democrats tell them they stand with the black community, but focus more on DEI initiatives than reading proficiency in schools.

Democrats run my neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. Nearly every elected official I shake hands with belongs to the Democratic Party. Just down the road from where I pastor, Democrats are building the massive Barack Obama Presidential Center. Democrats from all over America will flood into Chicago this August for the Democratic National Convention.

Every single one of these Democrats pride themselves on being on the side of "the good." It’s their bread and butter. It is what they advertise. They come into my impoverished, violent but, at the same time, a proud working-class neighborhood and they tell us, I stand with the Blacks, the minorities, the women, the impoverished, the marginalized, and so on. If they stand with us, then why are so many of our kids failing to learn how to read?

Reading is everything. It’s the most important thing a child can learn and develop over his or her scholastic career. Reading is what opens doors and creates opportunities. Reading is knowledge and that’s what fills empty souls with purpose and........

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