Even when times are hard in life, I’ve always found a way to maneuver around it.

No matter what I’ve faced, I’ve always chosen to remain strong as a black man in the City of

Camden. And maybe that can be an inspiration for someone else to follow, like a mold or a

model because I know it’s hard out here for folks in Camden. They’re all just trying to make it,

or trying to come up in some type of way.

Especially the young ones today, the trying to find a model and someone to steer them in the

right direction… We’re most importantly a city where we need to come up together as a

community to learn how to raise our children, how to be a better influence on others and better in

life itself. This way the city can be impacted, instead continuing the separation that’s going on

within our community.

As a believer in Christ, I would like for all of my brothers and sisters to come into unity and

bring the City of Camden back to its firmer roots, through prayer and action. As a community we

have the skills and the tools to make our community a better place, and we can do that by starting

to connect with one another. This change can’t happen by just one person, it takes a better

community of people to make it a better nation.

— Terrance McKinney, Camden