A surprise visitor walked on stage at Chicago’s Simeon High School today, bringing a message of non-violence…and flashing a little gold.It was included that Wade's foundation raised $10,000 for Ceasefire. You might have heard about Ceasefire, they serve to help prevent gang-violence. You might have also heard that in the budget battle last year state funds to Ceasefire were cut by the governor putting that Ceasefire programs in doubt.
ambi: Put your hands together…for our gold medal Olympian…Dwyane Wade.
Basketball superstar Dwyane Wade returned to the South Side of Chicago, where he was born, to make a point of telling students he grew up just like many of them, struggling with poverty and surrounded by bad choices.
WADE: But you know what I did? You know what I said? I said I’m not going to be like those guys. Like my uncles and my cousins that’s selling drugs. You know that think it’s cool to be selling drugs, or to be in gangs. I’m sorry. It don’t look cool to me.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Olympian Pays a Surprise Visit to a Chicago High School
This is awesome to see an Olympian, who won a gold medal, to come back to a local high school. In fact this is really a neighborhood high school. CPR:
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