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Posted on 06/19/2026 9:32:44 AM PDT by libstripper
Pastor Jeffery Campbell has deep ties to Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. He was raised in the South Side neighborhood, and has served as pastor at Woodlawn Baptist Church for 22 years.
And for the past decade, he’s attempted to protect its residents from displacement and gentrification. He’s seen rising rents, residents squeezed by university development and life becoming more unaffordable. Now, there’s a new challenge: the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center – part of a 19-acre, $850m campus – that has transformed life in the neighborhood, as well as the adjacent South Shore and Hyde Park, long before this Friday’s opening to the public.
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Boo hoo, maybe now they will figure out Bammy was not a black but another Halfrican grifter.
In ten years it will be covered in graffiti and overgrown with weeds and unkempt people with shopping carts and tents...............
I would bet this is the first and last time he will ever be there..............
I’ve heard this place was built adjacent to a bad neighborhood.
I guess we’ll see if this place becomes a hangout for less desirable folks, the kind who inflict gang graffiti and other scars on the landscape.
A disgusting piece of shit.
The building is ugly too.
It stirs pride? Really? I think pride went out the window a long, long time ago.
Where are the US Flags at the LieBarry? You would think a former president of the United States would be proud to fly the US Flag on his flak tower.
Nope. I’m sure Mooch made sure to deny any such patriotism.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4384316/posts
A grifter who has not paid his subcontractors (mostly blacks) for their work.
The article is mostly standard leftist whining and bullish**
at least 20 years ago, the University of Chicago declared a moratorium on acquiring properties or building south of 61st street.
If the locals want to keep it a ghetto, Univ. Chicago said - that’s fine by us.
As to the Obama Center, with the help of local Democrat machine pols, they hijacked land in Jackson Park to build this monstrosity. It may see a very short burst of activity or visitors, but otherwise, it will not attract business, housing or anything else. Its a white elephant to Obama’s ego and American marxist ambition.
Of course it stirs pride. It's the Obama library. That's what LGBTQ Pride month is all about!
I guess that’s right. It has no windows and is dark inside - like a gay bathhouse.
A lot of Black contractors have yet to be paid.
Interesting.
I’ve heard the Hyde Park neighborhood where Univ of Chicago is , is actually a decent neighborhood. But it’s surrounded by the ghetto.
I know some people protest about gentrification. It makes you wonder, do they prefer an area to stay, run down and blighted?
Interesting debate to have.
Is it better to keep an area a ghetto area, or is the displacement of longtime residents with more upscale people, a bigger evil than having a crime ridden, run down ghetto area.
But then a lot of these activists, were angry decades ago about white flight out of our cities, and they said, how white people moving away turned those areas into ghettos.
But then in areas where gentrification has happened, you see white people and people of many ethnicities who have money coming in and refurbishing the area. But that apparently angers the activists.
They were angry when white people moved out and now they get angry when white people want to move back in.
Who would be proud of that ugly edifice?
A lot of Black contractors have yet to be paid.“
And they are trying to stick us with the bill.
Barry’s fertility symbol
Mmm, mmmm, mmm, Barack Obama.
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