Posted on 11/15/2020 7:42:46 PM PST by PBRCat
A great-grandson of Mayor Richard J. Daley has called out several members of his extended family, accusing them of being “committed to white supremacy” in an open letter published last week.
In “A Letter to My Cousins,” published Wednesday in South Side Weekly, Bobby Vanecko calls his great-grandfather a “horribly racist mayor” and points to great-uncle Richard M. Daley’s involvement “in covering up evidence of Chicago police torture.”
Vanecko says his political family member’s support for racist policies can be traced back to Richard J. Daley, who ruled over the city from 1955 until his death in 1976 and resisted efforts toward desegregation.
“The first Mayor Daley was enduringly successful in shaping his city, and his legacy influences Chicago’s politics today,” Vanecko wrote. “Chicago remains one of the most segregated cities in the country, while public schools, health facilities, and housing have been closed and divested from; at the same time police spending per capita has tripled since 1964.”
The elder Mayor Daley’s standard of “law and order” denied people fighting against this racism, Vanecko wrote, nodding to both President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden for campaigning on similar notions in the 2020 presidential election.
Vanecko said this trend continued with Richard M. Daley, Vanecko’s great-uncle and former Cook County state’s attorney and Chicago’s mayor from 1989 to 2011. His great-uncle “was involved in covering up evidence of Chicago police torture,” Vanecko said. Richard M. Daley has denied knowing anything about police torture during his tenure.
“Many people in our family are still committed to white supremacy today, even if they are not racist interpersonally,” Vanecko wrote.
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Richard Daley a huge racist? Well, DUH!!!!!
In his book “Boss,†Mike Royko said that Daley instituted a swimming-pool building spree in the 1960s to help reduce the potential for summertime riots.
Daley called it the “Wet the Black” Program.
Bump
Too bad he is not here to hand out nightstick shampoos anymore.
I guess the vig was a little light by the time it got down to the great grandson.
“Boss” was an excellent book. Royko wrote it while Daley was still alive; Royko had guts.
Back when the worst thing about Democrats was that they were just corrupt.
But he was the head of the democratic machine. Democrats aren’t racist. They are black people’s friend. (sarc)
In 1965 Dr King said Chicago had more racist hate than any Southern City. Today, 55 years later, Chicago is still the Racist Capital of America.
Chicago has been Democrat for over 80 years
Chicago African American elected officials (in office today)
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot
Cook County Board President Preckwinkle
Chicago Police Chief Brown
State’s Attorney Foxx
Chief Judge of Cook County Evans
Circuit Court Clerk Brown
Clearly systemic racism is to blame for all political ills in Chicago.
Was Daley a real racist or the new kind of ‘everybody white is racis’ racist?
You think the Officials you listed are not racist?
OK
I guess the vig was a little light by the time it got down to the great grandson.
The "vig"?!?!?!?
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