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John Kass, the Democrat, wrote this?
Obama's library should be used as a historic look into a radical political past if that area. It would make it more interesting.
Where his library's parking lot now stands was once a small Japanese garden with a bright red bridge over a little pond. When Pearl Harbor happened people in the neighborhood went there and wrecked everything. In 1964 the wreckage of what was left of the Japanese garden was still there surrounded by tall weeds.
Across the street from Jackson Park was a high school where Micheal Jackson's older brothers brought him to show off the 'best singer' in the family when he was around five years old. The older brothers didn't go to school at Hyde Park High School, but they had friends there...
If you walk from there to the drug store on the corner and down Stony Island by three store fronts you run into the office of Saul Alinsky and his TWO organization.
And Bernie Sanders? Not that far away running the CORE Freedom House in his early 20's
Emmett Til's Aunt was alive and wanted people to know what Emmitt looked like after the beating... and she wanted people to know Emmitt was not her son. She was his Aunt.
Malcolm X lived near by and his friends told everyone the Nation of Islam had killed him after his death... Many rolled their eyes.
Lots of other radical stories grew in surrounding neighborhoods - going back to the back of the yards "Jungle' and abuse of early immigrants.
If Obama was smart he would include it all - a story of Chicago, radicalism and the part he played. Even the monster 'just a guy in the neighorhood'. It would be more interesting...and honest than what we're going to see.
What is this half-written drunken hash?
Someone is trying to hard to find humor where there is none.