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That's the situation. you live in fear all the time. i whatn't to point out your rooftop protest. this is how you rose to prominence. you had a 94 day protest against a run-down hotel. they tour it down and going to make a $23 million state of the art community center. you've done amazing things already. how is this galvanizing the community? how many people are behind you and how can we grow it? >> we have a whole community behind us and a city and a country behind us. thanks to fox to express our point of views. we're on rooftop revelations every day. people have gone to projecthood.org. the...

Noted, even in dire times, you are doing this, but perhaps it is the dire times that call out a requirement to really stand up for what's right. >> absolutely. it's obvious that we haven't failed in the situation as it relates to the violence in chicago. just before i came on the show, if this were baseball, we would have fit for the cycle. we had a shooting where one person got shot, another shooting, three people got shot, and then a shooting at the mall of all places, so it is desperate times, dire needs, and that is the reason why am on this roof and building this community center, so we c...

A requirement to really stand up for what's right. >> absolutely. it's obvious government has failed in the situation as itt relates to the violence in chicago. just before i came on the show, if this were baseball, we would have fit for the cycle. we had a shooting where one person got shot, another shooting, three people got shot, and then a shooting at the mall of all places, so it is desperate times, dire needs, and that is the reason why am on this roof and building this community center, so we can help the kids in our neighborhood to change from a criminal mind-set to being more producti...

>> it is projecthood.org . >> jason: i've got to tell you, unless you do this community by community,o you ae going to struggle to take back the streets the way you want them to. they are probably more -- they get affected more by the crime or the lack of police presence. using this up close and personal. what do you see? >> if we don't do something about the crime in areas like the one where we live, we are going to see businesses continue to close. right on the street from us, we had mcdonald's of all things close. we had a walgreens that closed. those were large businesses that cannot exist...

That or to help out. what's the website. >> it is projecthood.org . >> jason: i've got to tell you, unless you do this community by community, you are going to struggle to take back the streets the way you want them to. they are probably more -- they get affected more by the crime or the lack of police presence. using this up close and personal. what do you see? >> if we don't do something about the crime in areas like the one where we live, we are going to see businesses continue to close. right on the street from us, we had mcdonald's of all things close. we had a walgreens that closed. thos...