Posted on 09/07/2022 8:46:45 AM PDT by simpson96
A Few Good Women sprang out of a community effort to help beautify Karen Hicks's neighborhood at 87th and Ingleside and spread outward from there.
“We are a group of women that give love and support at any level,” Hicks told Chicago City Wire. “We started with our mass campaign of cleaning up. We call it the 'pop up cleanup.' We go to different communities westside, Southside. What really got it was the trash that I was seeing on the expressway over three years ago. The trash has gotten to be just unbelievably abundant in our communities. So we began just popping up, cleaning up. I made phone calls to IDOT to get involved and talk about the trash along expressways. So that's how we started with our system with the help of Harold Davis.”
Hicks and A Few Good Women have made a pivot to political advocacy.
“Well, you know, let's just be real. If you look around majority of the Democratic communities, they all look like garbage. And what I'm tired of is that nothing has ever changed. It's almost like we're following a system that has never really been for us. We talk about the Republicans, but Illinois hasn't been Republican. I have seen somebody like Jeff (Coleman, 87th House District candidate) and many others that I've known a long time. And I see how their way of thinking is totally different than what has been program in the state of Illinois,” Hicks said.
Hicks said her family has always been Republican and that she's one.
“What I don't like about the Democrats is that America is a business ... period. Whether we want it to like us or whatever it is. What the Democrats do not do is they do not teach business or civics or how it goes. Everything is around them where they can get it. And if you look around, mostly the Democrats have become what getting in office, but the community has become less,” she said. “You know, somebody like Jeffery Coleman, who I watched him and his father for years do great things. That's why I'm standing behind him, supporting him and I just want to see a change in what we're seeing. And the main change I want to see is the beautification of our communities. Because when you see things better, then you want to do better. But right now, you're not seeing some wonderful things. The schools look like garbage. We don't even have grocery stores in the average black communities. Come on. Something's got to change.”
Hicks said former activist and radio host Harold Davis, who died in 2020, was the inspiration behind A Few Good Women.
“Harold Davis was the one that gave me the idea to start A Few Good Women, because I used to just get out my car with trash bags and start cleaning up,” Hicks said.
Coleman is a Republican running for the 29th House District in the Nov. 8 general election, South Cook News reported.
He is a businessman who started Barbershop News Network in 2003, which gives barbers and stylists access to more than 200,000 merchants through his network.
“I want to shed light to my community that we need to stop being so blind – we need to spread our options, open our options up to other possibilities and not just blindly follow one party that necessarily doesn't work for us,” Coleman told South Cook News of his reason for running.
Other black leaders have encouraged their communities to quit corrupt, ineffective politics in favor of common sense candidates, regardless of party affiliation.
The Black Voters Project is aimed at turning the black vote in favor of candidates who will actually improve day-to-day life in the state’s black communities.
"The goal is to organize the black voter block in the state of Illinois. So it's a specific media-targeted door-to-door survey and data-driven effort to engage the black electorate in issues relating to the black community. Not Democratic, not Republican, not Independent, specifically not libertarian, but start with the issues so that we can then push people to the right candidate, not a party. So it's organizing our own vote for the first time outside of party boundaries that will allow us to move our agendas and our exchanges forward,” spokesman Brian Mullins told South Cook News.
Why “specifically not libertarian”?
Makes no sense trying to solve the problems created by government with more government.
Garbage politics in, human garbage out.
Right, they look like garbage, but they vote in high numbers, even people who aren’t mentally competent, people who have moved, and the dead. They all vote there somehow.
I have worked few times helping to clean Democratic run neighborhood.
What really hit me was the amount of garbage there. Poop, McDonalds wrappers, all kind of garbage.
Cleaning garbage does not cost ANYTHING!
Even poor people can clean their neighborhood, but, obviously, they do not care!
It has been almost sixty years since the “great society” turned our cities into trash—guess it wasn’t so “great” after all.
If you want to fix it make a list of what the politicians have done since then—and then do the exact opposite.
Detroit today. What modern Liberals have done today what Pontiac the Ottawa Chief could not do in 1764.
Years ago (in my Florida city) a black person actually complained street cleaning trucks were spending more time in white neighborhoods... based on the fact many black run communities looked like it had snowed - with so much paper and crap on their streets.
The opposite was true.
Saw street cleaning trucks once in my neighborhood over many years. They run 24/7 in inner city black communities where people clean their cars by throwing fast food containers, garbage, cigarette butts, and any other trash out the car window rather than cleaning their cars by dumping trash in a trash can.
Chicago:
I was raised on “even if you are poor, doesn’t mean you can’t be neat and clean”. It is hard to believe the garbage that people just throw everywhere. And I never believed that if you were born in a very poor neighborhood that there weren’t ways to get ahead. I was born into a family of six kids and my dad worked but didn’t make much money. He was murdered when I was 2 years old and my mom moved us into the “projects”. We ate mush a lot and went to the goodwill for our clothes. But we were clean! Our clothes were kept washed and repaired so they could be handed down to the next kid (I am the youngest so I got nothing but hand me downs). My mom couldn’t keep us going so she gave us all up for adoption. But you know...we all succeeded. We all own our own hoes (all paid for). And yes we found each other after many years and we still love each other.You can make it if you try and have the will.
Yes, exactly my point.
Cleanliness is basically free!
Especially pickling you own and sometimes your neighbors, garbage!
Instead of CRT, the schools should teach this! World would be a lot better place!
Your second point.
We are blessed to live in America!
Despite what some say, Anybody can make it here!
Unlike many other countries, where people are kept down by rules, laws, corruption or pure draft!
It has been almost sixty years since the “great society”
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I lived in D.C. before Johnson’s “great society” was thought of. It was a pig sty then too.
No grocery stores in black neighborhoods? A grocery store is a business that operates on penny profit. They are also liable for what happens to customers on their property. So why would they want to operate in “Neighborhoods” where their customers and workers stand an above average chance of being robbed, raped, or murdered? How can they turn a profit when most of the goods are stolen, not sold, with no consequence to the perps? What’s left over is “Sold” on EBT with the lowest margins in the store. Not a profitable business venture. Cry me a river. The black community has gotten exactly what they have voted for over the last 60 years. All of the “Blame whitey” rhetoric in the world cannot solve their problem that liberal demonrat politicians have created on their behalf.
Nairobi has laws and enforces them apparently. What a concept.
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