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Kennedy Contends Rahm Behind Plan to Push Blacks Out of City
The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | January 4, 2018 | Mark Brown

Posted on 01/04/2018 9:16:14 AM PST by PBRCat

“We’re cutting off money for schools, cutting off money for police, allowing people to be forced to live in food deserts, closing hospitals, closing access to mental health facilities,” Kennedy told reporters during a news conference that began as a criticism of the city’s efforts to stop gun violence.

What choice do people have but to move, to leave, and I think that’s part of a strategic gentrification plan being implemented by the city of Chicago to push people of color out of the city,” he continued.

Asked who is behind this alleged plan, Kennedy pointed to Emanuel.

“I believe in the tone at the top,” he said. “I believe the mayor is aware of what’s going on, and I think he is allowing that to occur and in some ways encouraging it.”

Pressed further, Kennedy said: “I believe that black people are being pushed out of Chicago intentionally by a strategy that involves disinvestment in communities being implemented by the city administration.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blackkk; blm; chicago; chriskennedy; emanuel; ilgovernorrace; illinois; innocents; kennedy; minorities; rahm; rahmblacks; rahmemanuel
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To: Liberal Anti Venom

You speak the truth.


41 posted on 01/04/2018 10:46:12 AM PST by Bonemaker
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To: Dilbert San Diego
What is a white person to do, to make these activists happy?

Recognize that NOTHING you do will make them happy, so the best response (from the perspective of what is best for YOU) is to do nothing for them, and work at reducing their power over society.

42 posted on 01/04/2018 10:47:30 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PBRCat

Running the Blacks out of town is an old DemonRAT thing going back almost 200 years. Wonder if they’ll use their KKK again or a new cleaned up version.


43 posted on 01/04/2018 10:47:31 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Liberal Anti Venom
" Blame government regulations and the residents of these neighborhoods because a business person will set-up shop anywhere they can be profitable. However, if your neighborhood is crime ridden, unsafe and a pig sty, stop complaining and do something about it."


44 posted on 01/04/2018 10:52:22 AM PST by Bonemaker
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To: fella

New hastag:

#Rahmhatesus


45 posted on 01/04/2018 10:52:47 AM PST by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

“Kennedy’s remarks were Chicago specific. Your experiences in Los Angeles are apt to be different.”

Perhaps, but I doubt that. Chicago is dominated and run by the same people as LA: Democrat politicians. And the schools are dominated by the same left-wing teachers, administrators and unions. Same people doing the same thing with the same complaints and the same results just in a different geographic location. More pointless noise. More insanity.


46 posted on 01/04/2018 11:02:16 AM PST by Liberal Anti Venom
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To: PBRCat

Amazing...I got to get an concession stand for popcorn on FreeRepublic...Gourmet Popcorn anyone? Get your popcorn here..


47 posted on 01/04/2018 11:02:31 AM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Y'know what might help? Voting straight ticket Democrat, instead of always voting for, oh, wait, what? Thanks PBRCat.

48 posted on 01/04/2018 11:15:21 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Liberal Anti Venom
Your words support my pre-conceived notions, but https://www2.census.gov/govs/school/13f33pub.pdf disagrees with you (for the year 2013, anyway).

In education spending per city, Boston is the top, at $20,502 per pupil, NYC is next at $20,331 per pupil, and then a big jump down to Anchorage ($15,419), Montgomery County, MD ($15,080), and #5 Baltimore City ($15,050). LA Unified is actually in the middle, at $10,670... and the national average is $10,700.

http://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/11/30/school-districts-with-the-highest-spending/4/ lists the top 9 districts (not cities) for 2016.... 6 are in NY, and the other 3 are in Alaska. The top is Pocantico Hills Central School District (enrollment 287), at $63,760, more than $20,000 higher than second place, in a district with an average salary of $100,000. I can't even comprehend that kind of spending insanity.

49 posted on 01/04/2018 11:28:04 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: PBRCat
Welcome to the Food Desert Grocery.

Home of the five-finger-discount.

50 posted on 01/04/2018 12:11:53 PM PST by JPG (MAGA)
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To: fella

Chris Kennedy doubles down in a radio interview on WGN 720 AM:

Our major city, Chicago, is using a strategy of selective containment where we’re allowing violence to continue as long as it only continues in certain neighborhoods. We have an ‘80-8 Rule,’ where 80 percent of the violence occurs in just 8 percent of our city… We’re cutting off resources to push people of color out of our city and perhaps out of the way of economic development.

We’ve closed 18 public schools in Bronzeville alone. That neighborhood just south of the Loop, there along the beaches of Lake Michigan, is the next great development play in Chicago. It will be a development play, but not for the residents who have lived there for years and years, and who are being pushed out. But instead, for a new wave of gentrification that defines a city which, as it gets smaller, is becoming whiter.

DEMOCRATS FIGHTING EACH OTHER!


51 posted on 01/04/2018 12:20:14 PM PST by PBRCat
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To: Liberal Anti Venom

Bullseye, in the V-ring.
I lived in the City of Downey and worked for the school district for almost 40 years.
As far as you engineers are concerned, you all did a pretty good job and delivered some pretty good plans and specs.
You just forgot that when you design and specify for a school district it needs to be tougher than a state penitentiary.
If you gave 70% of the students an anvil for a present Christmas morning, they will have it torn up by lunch time.


52 posted on 01/04/2018 1:34:05 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB

Downey?! Wow! Small world. I lived in Downey until 2015 and had a hand in several of their school modernization projects. Love that city and still go there weekly for fellowship meetings. Too bad I lost the house in the divorce. ;-)

As far as engineering and design of the schools, we don’t make them like we used to. Schools that were built out here in the 1920’s and 1930’s are still standing and in use and were completed on time and within budget at a fraction of the cost compared to today. But that’s an entirely different matter.


53 posted on 01/04/2018 1:49:18 PM PST by Liberal Anti Venom
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To: Liberal Anti Venom

You completely took my remarks out of context. Being on a cell phone, I could only provide a brief summary to the poster.


54 posted on 01/04/2018 2:49:51 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (God Bless Attorney General Jeff Sessions! Thank You!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Yep, they average about six a day and twenty a day on weekends


55 posted on 01/04/2018 8:21:34 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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