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Honoring and commending the Father's Day Rally Committee on its efforts and initiatives that have positively impacted on the quality of life of African American communities, and African American males in particular, within both Philadelphia and the entire Delaware Valley region at-large.
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WHEREAS, Nationally and locally African-American males lead in every category of negative statistics and are more likely, than any other singular group, to be unemployed, involved in the criminal justice system or to commit suicide. Startling data documents that the homicide rate is six times higher, AIDS contraction three times more likely and death from the heart attacks, fifty percent higher among African American males in comparison to their white male counterparts; and
WHEREAS, A group of concerned African American men established the Father's Day Rally Committee, Inc. in 1989. Seeing and understanding the myriad of social ills that plague minority communities, FDRC sought to formulate clear initiatives geared at reducing violence and educating communities that many of them, at one time or another, called home; and
WHEREAS, The Father's Day Rally Committee believes and positively exemplifies through their word and by deed, that men working together at the grassroots level can launch a meaningful attack on the negative attitude(s) which contribute to the destruction of families and neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, The Father's Day Rally Committee initiated a City-wide Peace campaign designed to heighten awareness of, and open dialogue on, decreasing the number of senseless killings and other acts of violence against, and attributed to, African American males, in response to a dramatic increase in the City's already historically high homicide rate. FDRC has sponsored dozens of peace marches and rallies, reaching upwards of 25,000 people in connection with this, and other similar campaigns; and
WHEREAS, The Father's Day Rally Committee has spearheade...
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