Posted on 01/21/2021 8:47:30 AM PST by SJackson
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday she has “great plans for re-introducing Chicago to the nation” mid-summer and into the fall that includes a “reunion weekend” to encourage African Americans who have fled Chicago to “come back home.”
Lightfoot offered a sneak peek at her plans to rebuild a Chicago economy ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic while moderating a virtual panel she called “Cup of Joe.”
It was a local, Inauguration Day version of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, and featured Chicago business and community leaders and activists discussing their hopes and dreams for the incoming Biden administration.
Carlos Nelson, CEO of the Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation, set the stage for Lightfoot’s preview when he talked about the need for “Black and Brown folks from our communities” to have a “lead role” in rebuilding their long-neglected neighborhoods.
“It’s so vitally important that ... catalytic projects that are so needed to establish workforce in our community rebuild wealth that has been … stolen from many of us due to systemic and structural racist policies,” Nelson said.
“I would implore you and implore the federal government that, as funds come into our community — whether it’s Opportunity Zone or stimulus or CARES Act funding — that those funds go to leaders from our communities, economic development professionals from our communities, developers from our communities, so we can build our communities back for us, by us.”
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“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,” the mayor said.
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C’mon home and get shot.
She wants “them” back on the plantation!!!
Let more killing your own commence!!
Maybe they don't like being shot at or carjacked.
Well, there goes the Neighborhood.
IT’S A JOKE, OKAY?
Come back to South Side, get smoked by homies.
No White racists.
Ironic, a black doing White Power work...
Sounds like a blast! Come on everybody! You’ll get a bang out of it!!
Never mind any other races, some who may have been employing other people.
“Come back home’ so they can get shot the next day?
Hey Blacks, Dems want you back on the Plantation
Remember you all voted for this
Bring lots of ammo
I never thought I would see the day, a retarded black dyke, prolificating White Power. Impressive.
Nothing better than blacks killing blacks.
I kinda liked the “Edmund Fitzgerald” song. Oh, and “If You Could Read My Mind” too. Oh, different lightfoot. Never mind.
I kinda liked the “Edmund Fitzgerald” song. Oh, and “If You Could Read My Mind” too. Oh, different lightfoot. Never mind.
Wakanda!!!
Defund the Chicago.
Well, if they fled to Baltimore, it might be a step up, who knows.
What’s changed?
Pay super high local taxes for non-existent (Ferguson Effect) police protection—and then get robbed—and then get shot.
What a deal!
If you want to hear some real “hate speech”, talk to some black folks who moved their families out of the “big city” in the suburbs. I can’t even repeat here most of the comments I have heard.
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