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Derek S. Booker, 47 born in Kings County Hospital, raise and educated in Brooklyn. Raised by Jacqueline L. Booker, a single parent along with my younger two brothers, Richard and Keith, and only sister Denise. I grew up in a loving, traditional setting despite no father presents, with Grandfather and Great Grandfather living under the same roof. We frequently attended Marine Baptist Church as children, located across the street on Bergen and Rochester.
I attended Public School 83 and 353, were I was a Honor Roll Student and Valedictorian at graduation. I then attended Intermediate School 55 in Ocean Hill Brownsville, were I received my first “15 minutes of fame” as a member of a local 5 member boys group called Techniques/Domains. I attended “Boy’s High School” and Medgar Evers College, where I majored in Biology.
911 has changed the world and our community as we know it, forever. Our leadership has to be up to the task at hand, to prepare our community for the “21st Century”, but this will take “A NEW VISION AND A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS” in order to lead and serve our community properly. This new vision will not talk about reparations, but preparations for our children, our young folks and our seniors. This consciousness will not play the blame game but the same game, that has been sucessful for every ethnic group coming to America. A plan, opportunity, focus and hard work. Too many of our young minds and souls are lost to ignorance, idleness, incarcernation and death.
I have live throughout Brooklyn and presently resides in Canarsie, so I see and understand our concerns and see the relationship between, the miseducation or lack of, high crime stats, businesses not investing in our community, unkept streets, joblessness, poor housing, homelessness and our apathy for seniors.
These problems/issues plague and destroy not only the community now, but also it future. As your next Councilman I will bring “A NEW VISION, A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS”.
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