BORN SUSPECT IN AMERICA

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"Don't Look For A Hero-Be One!™" is a motto that Gregory McCowan lives his life by. Tired of seeing people idolizing the wrong people, Gregory's guiding principle helps one look inward for the light.

I’d like to give the people who fought for freedom, for myself and for millions of others their proper due. I pledge allegiance to them all, because they knew this would be our country through fighting and strife for our lives. I feel I must express myself, to gain that respect that all God’s children should have at birth. I didn’t know that the tears I cried for my mother’s milk, kisses and hugs would take on a different turn — tears of fear. . .

I have no vices, for I’m just a child, crawling around to the cabinets pulling out all the spices. Mom caught me, she knew things just would be, so she said “What the heck” — she didn’t think I was a suspect, but did know I had to be correct. A few years later, after having been taught the golden rule, I was sent to school to learn from the teacher. I saw my teachers weren’t the same kind — their skin was different than mine. They tried to teach me what they could, and I can say it did me some good, for I rose up out of the hood, and found I was out there with a lot of other potential suspects not yet full grown — still in retrospect, I was Born Suspect in America. . .

In my America I’ve heard of diversity, yet I can’t see in corporate America, the banks, and not in the executive ranks, but we’re the first in the prison system, which is a revolving door for the needy and the poor. We the poor have no jobs, so there are no checks to pay our debts, because – we were Born Suspect in America. . .

Please America; see the light and wake up to make it right. You know we’re in every profession from doctors, scientists, builders, lawyers and designers, and have done it all, whenever we get the call, so let us live without having to get up against the wall!

Let this world be better for all mankind, from the front to the back of the line. It’s really time to get this in your mind and stop racism and bias of any kind. This country must be a color blind society to get that feeling of healing for all the open wounds. Our time is up for hope; we must have our good news, for our lives are full of bad rules leaving us filled with the blues. Let’s put all that negativity to rest, let me live as a man — Not as a Suspect!