Because I just feel like we are going to beat this evil thing hanging on around us one way or another, so help us, God.

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T.W. - I grew back when there was real racial discrimination that you could reach out and touch every day of every minute you lived in those days. Waking up every morning on the mean street of the 9th Ward New Orleans neighborhood. There was no discussion about being any other way, or else you would disappear without a trace if you did try and do anything else about not moving the White/colored sign on every streetcar and bus you traveled on. That was just the way it was back then living in 1950s America.

If a black American would get feed up with being treated that way and start causing a ruckus in public that person was never seen again. So people told me that they were simply walked out into the swamp around New Orleans and thrown into quicksand, murdered like that. 

If a black girl took a shine to me and I reciprocated in public for everyone else to see that I would disappear too.

There was no public discussion about the Jim Crow laws separate but equal facilities over how the police ruled the streets along with the underground political power structure in New Orleans. 

Everyone knew what the real deal was living on the mean streets in the 9th Ward.

So I liked to go to church every Sunday where all the goodwill people paid their respect to Jesus Christ, who loved everyone in the same way. 

I was walking back home after the 9:00 AM Church mass at Our Lady Star Of The Sea, St Roch Park. Feeling low and alone stepping out into the real harsh world's evil behavior all around me for as long as we could remember. When all of a sudden I felt Jesus' friendship walking beside me, how I was shocked that I felt his personality letting me know he was there staying with me as long as I want, no matter what. 

How those far away harsh years have come and gone but still today when I walk with Jesus' friendship, I understand what true faith in each other love is all about and how I am not afraid of crossing over any more no matter what those evil wackos do. 

That as lone as we breathe we can always give to the children our true friendship, even if it's just a smile, and how when I feel Jesus' friendliness along with you too, I always feel good again. Because I just feel like we are going to beat this evil thing hanging on around us one way or another, so help us, God.

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Patti LaBelle - New Attitude (Official Music Video)

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