When A.J. Jelani was growing up in project housing in San Francisco, his family couldn’t afford Christmas gifts, so his sister found an old toy gun, rubbed Vaseline on it to make it shiny and new, and made it a gift from Santa. Jelani said he showed off the gift to his friends, but added, “I never want any child to feel the way I did.”
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