Posted on 02/06/2021 5:19:20 PM PST by simpson96
Mayor Lori Lightfoot rightly wants to turn back Chicago’s troubling exodus of Black residents.
But her recent proposal to hold a “reunion weekend” to invite Black folks who have left to just “come back home,” strikes us as a surprisingly naive way for a mayor to recoup a lost population of at least 100,000 people.
Lightfoot made the comment, perhaps off the cuff, while moderating a virtual panel that discussed rebuilding wealth on Chicago’s chronically disinvested — and predominantly Black and Brown — South and West sides.
Editorials It was a thoughtful discussion but then the mayor came out of left field with this:
“One of the things that we have planned going into the future is a reunion weekend. We’ve lost a lot of population over the last 10-plus years. People leaving Chicago, particularly Black Chicago, going to other places in the country — Atlanta, Dallas and even just moving to the suburbs because they didn’t feel like Chicago was welcoming and their home.”
She continued:
“We’ve got to change that around, and when we open back up we’re gonna be heavily marketing to all areas of the country that we know the Chicago diaspora has gone to and say, ‘Come back home. Give us another look. We are a different city. We want you to come back home.’ I’m excited about that and other opportunities as we open up.”
Chicago’s Black population has dropped from 872,000 in 2010 to 797,000 in 2017, according to the UIC Great Cities Institute, and this was a continuation of a longer trend. Almost 1.1 million Black people lived in Chicago in 2000.
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Chicago’s a corrupt democrat hellhole... I’m surprised more people haven’t packed up and left.
Bug-eyed serial killer?
Chicago voters made their bed.
Jim Noble: Assumes facts not in evidence.
Which part(s) of that statement do you dispute? "Rightly?" "Troubling?" I'll grant you that.
Regards,
people naturally gravitate away from where they’ll likely be killed. Boy! That’s a hard one to figure out!
White flight bad because racism....
Blacks leaving a black city bad because we need black people.
HEY LIBERALS. How about letting people do what is best for themselves?
Hotlanta, a black man’s paradise...
1) Rightly: No one should be expected to live under the conditions which exist in the South Side of Chicago, leaving should be encouraged. To expect any humans, especially those with children, to remain is wrong.
2) Troubling: Really? To whom?
The suburbs, and it’s already started with rising shootings, carjackings and home burglaries. Being reported in Chicago area media surprisingly.
BTW pay attention to Indianapolis, where the most hardcore gangbangers are going.
All cultures are equal.
Imagine if the story had said
Mayor Lori Lightfoot rightly wants to turn back Chicago’s troubling exodus of WHITE residents.
Yep, I think that Leftist sh*thole is too far gone. A few months back, I thought the big $$$ would go into those areas and plow them down and gentrify....now, I don’t think so. That place is a MESS and Mayor Beetlejuice is drowning in her ineptitude. It really is something to watch. I think something is getting to her, perhaps a $$$ or sex scandal. We shall see if she runs off to AZ rehab and the following excuses: Racism, homophobia, abused as a widdle chile, etc.
Some cultures are more equal than others.
I need to brush up on my Animal Farm...
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