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Running this marathon is probably one of the hardest things I’ll do in my life. I am not a runner. So why am I doing it?
At the beginning of Spike Lee’s movie, Chi-raq, the following numbers are shared:
2001 – 2015
–2,349 American deaths in the Afghanistan war
2003 – 2011
–4,424 American deaths in the Iraqi war
As I watched this, I nodded my head and thought, “Yeah, lots of people die in war; it’s pretty awful.” But then he hits you with this stat:
2001 – 2015
–7,356 murders in Chicago
I looked at that number in shock. There were more murders in an American city than deaths of soldiers (people expected to die) in two wars. Did people know this? I hadn’t known. Continue reading
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