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Posted on 01/09/2018 6:08:24 PM PST by jazusamo
Back in his community-organizing days, Barack Obama would have been the one fighting to save historic public parks from developers. Today, the 44th president finds himself on the other side of the underserved communities he once championed.
Grass-roots activists, conservationists and academics on Chicago’s South Side say the Obama Presidential Center, as currently planned, does not do enough to benefit neighborhoods badly in need of economic revitalization. The Obama Foundation rejected a proposed Washington Park site that would have made the center easily accessible through public transportation, opting instead for a lush Jackson Park location that overlooks Lake Michigan.
Charles Lipson, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, which sits just blocks away from the center’s future location, said Mr. Obama is “indulging himself” by building “a monument along the lakefront, where it will have a lot less positive impact than it could have had elsewhere.”
“Any community organizer worthy of the name would have put this museum on the west side of Washington Park, which desperately needs the economic revitalization and already has extensive public transportation in place, as well as easy access to the Dan Ryan [Expressway],” Mr. Lipson said. “That location, which President Obama rejected, would have been an unambiguous boon to the community and to Chicago.
“Instead,” Mr. Lipson continued, “the former president chose a much fancier, high-profile site on the lake, one with virtually no public transportation.”
Mr. Lipson is one of more than 100 faculty at the University of Chicago who signed a public letter asking Mr. Obama to move his library.
In its current location, the Obama Presidential Center will not provide “promised development or economic benefits” to the local community, the professors wrote in the letter, and will cost taxpayers as much as $100 million in infrastructure renovations...
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That many smelly outhouses on public land.
Yeah, it ain’t all good.
....no doubt he wants a 45ft. tall bronze statue of himself.... the disagreement comes when discussing what type of fly should be placed on his mouth....ordinary everyday city garbage fly or good old robust busy bullshit fly
Obama has never been a part of the community that he pretended to support and they all know this about him. Obama could care less about helping that community. Just like he did nothing for blacks in America when he was president.
...opting instead for a lush Jackson Park location that overlooks Lake Michigan...
You must understand that all of this is for the democrat ruling elite. It’s for America’s deposed and former royalty who find it easy to spend money
Just as they are used to.
C’mon, Barry. Build your library in da’ hood amongst your people because even though they are mostly crack dealers, gangstas, pimps and hoes, they’re probably the only people who are interested in your legacy. Besides, I don’t believe Metro provides bus service up to the lake and those folks are not going to walk that far.
I sure hope he's respectful. There may be a future president from Kenya in their ranks.
Which part do they object to?
Right on. A Kenyan president may visit to check out the homeboy that did good. ;-)
Shouldn’t the Obama library be built in Kenya?
Anyhow, what will the library be about?
From what’s been left of his legacy, the library should get a subtitle of “Obama’s ‘Seinfeld’ Library”, or the library about nothing.
Will it have a minaret?
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In the central rotunda of his library clothed in a toga with Grecian columns all around and faintly playing grandiose music from hidden speakers. There isn’t anything else you could put in his ‘library’.
Not a future Kenyan president,... another future U. S. President from Kenya.
Lord forbid, not another one. That went over my head, way too much to comprehend.
LOL
I don’t expect another one, but I couldn’t take a pass on the zing once it popped into my noggin.
Why not Indonesia?
.mm.....maybe his designer knee pads
used to cushion, while kissing azz upon azz early on through out the middle east....
I personally believe that a presidential library's location and design should reflect the positive accomplishments of a former president like my recommendation for Ex-President Obama:
I believe that’s perfect!
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