Speed of Life

Gregg Chadwick Kids Who Die (Ferguson to Baltimore)  24”x48” oil on linen 2015 inspired by Langston Hughes and the #BlackLivesMatter movement  https://www.facebook.com/colorofchange/videos/10153460650661067/ Kids Who Die by Langston Hughes This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly . The old and rich will live on awhile , As always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die. Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi Organizing sharecroppers Kids will die in the streets of Chicago Organizing workers Kids will die in the orange groves of California Telling others to get together Whites and Filipinos, Negroes and Mexicans, All kinds of kids will die Who don't believe in lies, and bribes, and contentment And a lousy peace . Of course, the wise and the learned Who pen editorials in the papers, And the gentlemen with Dr. in front of their names White and black, Who make surv...

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by Gregg Chadwick   From Birth - Baltimore April 2015 Photo by  Lara Davidson * " Schoolteachers, Johns Hopkins employees, film crew people, kids, retirees, everybody went to the city jail. If you think I’m exaggerating, look it up. " - David Simon on Baltimore's anguish.  "Are you going to tell me the story of my life, or am I going to tell you yours." - Baltimore Resident to me in a coffee shop near  City Recreation Pier in the  Fells Point  neighborhood in Baltimore in the late 1990's.   Homicide: Life on the Street's police department scenes were all shot there . Eddie Gray's death at the hands of the Baltimore Police Department is sadly not an isolated event. To understand the current situation in Baltimore, it pays to read the thoughts of  David Simon   on Baltimore’s Anguish:  Freddie Gray, the drug war, and the decline of “real policing” in  The Marshall Project.  David Simon's history with Charm Cit...