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Stop trusting political parties to save urban America. It's time for us to rise and rebuild

Rooftop Revelations: I’ve come to believe that what Urban America needs most are American principles. Those principles do not belong to any political party

By Corey Brooks Fox News

Published March 3, 2026 10:00am EST

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Rooftop Revelations: What Urban America needs most

Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks says the only way out of hopelessness is development grounded in American principles.

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Urban America does not need a political party. For decades, we were told that if we only had the right political savior, our problems would be solved. But no one is coming.

What Urban America needs are principles: the timeless, universal values of faith, family, agency, ownership, discipline, safety and accountability.

We don’t need any more of this Republican vs. Democrat talk. We’ve done it to death, and we cannot afford to succumb to false promises any longer — not when our communities have only worsened. A man once told me that progress can only happen the moment we stop lying to ourselves. It is far easier to believe in false promises than to look at the cold reality of where most of urban America, including my South Side Chicago neighborhood, stands — at the bottom of the American totem pole.

In my Walk Across America, which is now taking me........

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