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Then, Williams made a big ask: How many people in this room would actually come to Chicago and spend a day in our neighborhood, because we can make that happen.
Hands quickly flew into the air. Mine included. So many hands. How could they not after such an impassioned and powerful case was made? So my producer Carol Alderman and I flew to Chicago and spent the day with McDade. The date was Aug. 1, one year to the day when he and his family were strafed by gunfire while sitting on their front porch.
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This latest episode of “Cape Up” is different from what you’re used to hearing. This is not a straight interview. Instead, you’re going to hear McDade’s story. I urge you to listen to him and what he has to say, especially to those who raised their hands in that tent in Aspen, Colo.
“Don’t Raise your hand if you’re not going to come. Don’t raise your hand if you’re not going to help me save the next person’s life,” McDade told me. “Don’t raise your hand if you don’t want to help save mine.”
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