Posted on 07/21/2014 7:11:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
When president Obama was lifted to the presidency promising hope and change, no community was more hopeful than the black community. And inside the black community, no city was prouder than Chicago.
But not anymore.
Today blacks are disenchanted with an administration—both Obama’s and the current one in Chicago—that has played them.The politicians, who have been so ready to write trillion dollar checks to Wall Street, auto companies and cronies haven’t spent a dime on addressing issues decimating the black community.
Instead they have fostered more dependence, using money that rightly belongs in black pockets, to keep blacks servile and voting Democrat.
So in poverty, unemployment, mortality and education blacks continue to lag behind the rest of the country.No discussion of reform can begin without taking into account this absolute fact: There are two countries in America today, the black United States and everywhere else.
And the murder rate in Chicago is making that point in a way that even politicians can’t ignore.
A recent vigil for an 11 year-old black girl, Shamiya Adams, who was killed by stray bullet while at a friend’s sleepover has folks in the Windy City angry.
“Though well attended by ministers and local residents,” reports the Chicago Tribune, “some were bothered that few politicians turned out to pay their respects. A speaker at the vigil listed off the names of elected officials who didn’t attend, and a woman singled out Mayor Rahm Emanuel before the vigil for not doing more.”
So, however much one or two blacks may have thrived, no city demonstrates how disappointed blacks feel in the so-called progress that has not been made for ordinary African-American citizens.
Three decades ago, race issues polarized the city, with some blacks claiming that there was no more segregated northern city than Chicago. The result was a breakup of Chicago’s old Daley Machine, replaced by a coalition of blacks and Hispanics under the city’s first black Mayor Harold Washington.
Obama’s election, first to the United States Senate and then the White House, wasn’t just progress, but a promise of more to come, even with another Daley in the White House.
But one need only look at the crime statistics to get an idea why blacks are disaffected after six years of Obama and 30 years of so-called progress.
Chicago is a city gripped by a massive murder wave, affecting mostly black communities. In response the city, now run by former Obama White House Chief of Staff, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, has come up with a variety of policing options, the most effective of which has been cooking the books to make it appear that crime is getting under control under new policies.
“The city’s crime numbers seem too good to be true,” reported Chicago Mag in a June series looking at number fixing by the Chicago Police Department. “One former lieutenant has a name for the system: the washing machine. ‘They wash and rinse the numbers,’ the lieutenant says.”
As if on cue, the numbers of shootings have suddenly gotten so completely out of control that no amount of laundering can cover the stink.
Over the July 4th weekend, over 80 shootings occurred with 16 deaths. This past weekend 40 shootings occurred including the death of Shamiya Adams.
The woman who criticized the mayor for not attending the vigil, “Venice Bickham, said Shamiya’s death was a symptom of Chicago leaders prioritizing improvements to Grant Park and Navy Pier over investments in the city’s neighborhoods,” says the Chicago Tribune.
The fact that the city’s union-protected employees get lifetime constitutional guarantees to employment benefits, while Chicago blacks are denied their right under the constitution to not just own a firearm, but to enjoy life, liberty and happiness, would be ironic if it weren’t so tragic.
And this is the true civil rights issue in America.
If Shamiya Adams were a blonde-haired, blue eyed 6th grader from Lincoln Park the National Guard would be called out to fix the problem. But she’s black, so she’s disposable.
As a conservative, I’m not OK with this. I’m not OK standing by while a holocaust grips the black community and the nation does nothing.
I’m not OK with a Republican Party that does nothing either.
Conservatives are smarter than that.
It’s time we demonstrated that we care about the real problems facing black America.
We just need a touch of imagination-- and leadership.
Standing by.
To me, it seems that the problems of the ghetto are just not related to politics or who is in office.
The ghettoes of our cities have been vast wastelands for decades, through good economic times and bad, through presidencies of both Republicans and Democrats. And now, for almost six years of a black president, the ghetto is still the same disaster area it was the day Obama took office.
Money won’t help one bit.
The very core of the problem is that women aren’t insisting that men marry them before getting sex,
and leftists aren’t going to try to solve that problem, ever.
No, not just banks. Billions for Green Energy boondoggles, billions for illegals, billions for everyone who can donate big bucks or millions of votes. It isn’t rocket science.
Democrats favorite social programs...”offshoots” of THE GREAT SOCIETY insist there be no DAD in the home...for the moms of enumerable kids to get their gubment monies..
no dad ...no AUTHORITY....no workable social order...
Every 8 years there is a new crop of dopey kids who fall for whatever pretentious pap and glittering generalities the ‘Rat candidate spews.
Millions of young minds full of mush — and intentionally rendered so by the cynical and sinister collaboration of the so-called “educational” establishment and the so-called “entertainment” industry.
It’s time to raised the voting age to 25.
Close... replace "women" with "15 and 16 year old girls"
"Trillion dollar checks" - the author doesn't seem to understand math or finance.
He's clearly an Occupy Wall Street kind of class warrior. Bizarrely leftist.
And is he arguing that the President should be directing more handouts to the inner city?
That's also bizarrely leftist.
The President has already showered other people's hard-earned money on the inner city in the form of neverending WIC/EBT/Obamaphone/Obamacare subsidies.
He's been an absolute profligate in transferring wealth from the dos to the do-nots.
Sucking up to the very “fat cats” he railed about during the election. I guess that was before he started getting HIS cut of the bounty!
25 and owners of real property.
Is "John Ransom" a pseudonym for Al Sharpton?
and what would that "investment" look like? More handouts? Maybe the solution begins with people taking more responsibility for their own actions and destructive behaviors.
Oh?
Why not require a net worth in excess of $100,000 while you’re at it?
The murder rate in Chicago is their justification for more gun control laws. They don’t want it to stop.
I could live with that.
I can bring that back around, too -
15 and 16 yr old girls should be under the protection of a FATHER,
which leads back to the requirement of marriage to the girls’ fathers.
The ghetto will always be the ghetto until the people in the ghetto stop being ghetto.
or something like that
yep
Blacks will vote Dem forever. There is a certain underclass that likes being on the dole (not only Blacks, but a whole lot of them) as long as the benefits are good enough (which they are). Why bother to work? The only way to improve their lot is to withdraw or lower those benefits enough that it becomes more cost effective to work.
As to the broken family, look again to the welfare benefits where you get more money for each kid that you pop out, as long as you aren’t married to a supporting husband. Can’t have that, can we. So cut off the money spigot, don’t increase it, which is the gist of this article.
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