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Mayor blames Richard Nixon for Chicago’s intractable violence
CWB Chicago ^ | July 8, 2024 | Tim Hecke

Posted on 07/09/2024 6:22:06 AM PDT by Salman

CHICAGO — In recent years, Chicago’s leaders have blamed a wide range of external factors for the city’s infamous street violence. They’ve pointed fingers at Donald Trump, Indiana, Kim Foxx, and gun manufacturers, among others.

On Monday, after 108 people were shot, 19 fatally, during the Independence Day weekend, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson became the first leader to blame Richard Milhous Nixon.

“We are standing here today talking about a violent weekend because of generations of disinvestment,” Johnson told a room full of reporters.

“Black death has been unfortunately accepted in this country for a very long time,” Johnson claimed. “We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes and people mocked President [Lyndon] Johnson and we ended up with Richard Nixon.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
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To: Salman

Blacks did not seek out construction jobs anywhere near as greatly as the conquistadors nuevos did.


41 posted on 07/09/2024 7:11:10 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: fremont_steve

1960

Kennedy & Johnson
vs.
Nixon & Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.


42 posted on 07/09/2024 7:17:13 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Vaduz

There is reliable evidence that LBJ had been a member of the Klan. And Nixon will have been out of office for 50 years this August 8th. And this simpleton mayor was probably not even born during his presidency. Take a walk along Michigan Avenue, the Magnificent Mile, since he took office and see the 1/3 of the fancy stores that are closed.


43 posted on 07/09/2024 7:17:19 AM PDT by laconic
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To: allendale

I remember that. I was only 13 years old but I remember it well. It came down to the precincts in Chicago. The Union bosses and mafia guaranteed a win for Kennedy. It was said that if just ONE VOTE in each precinct went for Nixon he would have been President and not JFK.


44 posted on 07/09/2024 7:31:18 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Salman

“We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes and people mocked President [Lyndon] Johnson and we ended up with Richard Nixon.”

When a PALESTINIAN IMMIGRANT shot Democrat contender Bobby Kennedy dead. The shooter was one of those Third World people allowed into the US.


45 posted on 07/09/2024 7:31:56 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: laconic

There is reliable evidence that LBJ had been a member of the Klan.

Many democrats were and are but not as public now wonder who has the log books.


46 posted on 07/09/2024 7:33:36 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: mewzilla

I’ll raise you the Post Civil War Reconstruction era......


47 posted on 07/09/2024 7:50:33 AM PDT by SPDSHDW (Only peaceful solution is a national divorce. There is no harmony between the statists and the right)
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To: Salman
From the article: "...Year-to-date shootings are now up compared to 2023. Homicides are still trailing last year’s tally by about 10%..."

Apparently the shooters need more accuracy skills.

48 posted on 07/09/2024 7:57:57 AM PDT by budj (hre)
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To: Brian Griffin

WHEN THE UNIONS DEMANDED TOO MUCH FOR TOO LITTLE—

the companies changed.


49 posted on 07/09/2024 8:34:08 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Salman

“Black death has been unfortunately accepted in this country for a very long time.”

The secret’s out!!! White people don’t die!!


50 posted on 07/09/2024 8:34:57 AM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Salman

Black run city with black violence out of control

Obviously a dead white guy’s fault.


51 posted on 07/09/2024 8:53:50 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Salman

White men aren’t pulling the triggers mayor.


52 posted on 07/09/2024 12:46:21 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Brian Griffin

I still wonder why Nixon chose Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who could not win MA. Some said Ford should have been the choice way back then, but Ford could not have won MI either.


53 posted on 07/09/2024 1:05:02 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Salman

The white people got tired of being robbed and mugged and fled.

They should have stayed and been victims of the thugs.

;-)


54 posted on 07/09/2024 1:08:17 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Salman

obama came from Chicago politics and was president for 8 years. He did not do anything as he like all democrats support the criminals.


55 posted on 07/09/2024 1:44:08 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Salman

Sure. Why not? It’s ANYBODY’S fault, but Brandon’s.


56 posted on 07/09/2024 5:26:25 PM PDT by simpson96
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