Posted on 12/21/2013 8:53:47 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather
On Thursday, a town hall meeting hosted by Al Sharpton and the National Action Network to address gun violence exploded into a revolt against “Chicago Machine” politics, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the aldermen in City Hall, with panel and audience members calling to vote out their elected officials.
One 82-year-old preacher even called for “Tea Party” style meetings in some of Chicago’s south side communities such as Altgeld Gardens and Trumbull Park.
“This was a historic event,” Paul McKinley of V.O.T.E. (Voices of the Ex-Offender) and former 2nd Congressional District GOP nominee to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr. told Breitbart News. “Not because of Al Sharpton coming to town,” he continued. “This was first time since electing Mayor Harold Washington in the eighties that all of these grassroots groups and community organizers have come together under one roof to talk about the problems plaguing our community.”
While the stated goal for Sharpton was to bring the many different groups together to discuss solutions to the city’s violence epidemic, he may not have gotten the types of responses he was looking for. Calls for more gun control laws and getting guns off the streets were nonexistent and not mentioned by residents throughout the session.
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I hope this movement explodes.
Al Sharpton doesn’t represent anyone but himself.
Ping
Now that is what I call “hope and change”. Now if only they could keep up that spirit. We might actually see some good things.
Ping.
That was inspiring. But I’ll believe it when I see it.
Watch for the next Travon to be in Chicago to get everyone back on the plantation.
The sheep looked up. Rahm and his machine won’t like this at all. Watch for the crackdown.
I watched and listened to it. What I heard could be taken two ways, including this way-”Obama isn’t paying our mortgages and filling our gas tanks like he promised. Whoever comes through with the free stuff (that the dumb working stiffs pay for) gets our vote. “
And based on what i’ve witnessed for decades, that’s how I’ll understand it until I see different.
Also, one person said that they couldn’t “just” blame YT for the gun violence in their communities. I’d be interested to hear how YT gets the blame at all, unless it’s for manufacturing mind-altering guns which make the possessors commit crimes.
“Tea party should go in and connect with them.”
Exactly what I was thinking. I just hope this thing takes off as I agree with what they were saying.
Bump
Now we see the reason for the nonstop allegations of racism leveled at the tea party.
“Rahm and his machine won’t like this at all. “
Well, Chicago would be a better place if Rahm’s father had used a condom! And that goes for his equally worthless brother Ezekiel, “Father” of Obamacare! The whole Emmanuel family are nothing but a bunch of Capos.
Hey, I need that for bowl game season. My goal is to watch at least a part of every single bowl game. Of course, I will require lost of sustenance to get me through it.
Yes, I agree. They called for Tea Party style meetings, but not Tea Party type solutions to their problems. They want politicians to fulfill all the promises they made to these people, and that is impossible. Politicians always make promises they can’t keep, but voters keep on believing in these crooks.
They will just replace one set of crooks with another.
Yep, that's how I read it too.
Also, what is 'YT'?
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