Posted on 04/05/2023 7:04:43 AM PDT by Twotone
South Side Chicago residents recently revealed to the Washington Post that the construction of the Obama Presidential Center has led to a significant increase in the neighborhood’s rent, causing the displacement of long-term residents, including many black families.
In September 2021, former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama broke ground on the Obama Presidential Center in the South Side of Chicago. The center, located on a 19-acre lot, will include a public library, playground, community centers, and a museum.
The $500 million project has been largely financed by private donors. The construction, which is still ongoing, is estimated to bring $3.1 billion to the community. In addition, it is predicted to generate another $16.5 million in state and local tax revenue.
At the groundbreaking ceremony, Obama told the audience that the center would “give back to Chicago and the South Side in particular.”
“The Obama Presidential Center is our way of repaying some of what this amazing city has given us,” he stated.
Obama Foundation Executive Vice President for Civic Engagement Michael Strautmanis said, “Our hope and intention is that the people who live there now are able to enjoy the center when it comes online.”
Strautmanis claimed that the project created the “opportunity for this to be a success story.”
However, long-term residents say that the center has already started to result in the gentrification of the community.
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Obviously it doesn’t bother them that much.
To repeat - YOU GET EXACTLY WHAT YOU VOTED FOR.
ENJOY AND ACCEPT THAT YOU VOTED FOR YOUR OWN SELF DESTRUCTION.
Obama is participating in institutional racism! (Did I get my wokeness right on this one?)
Hell, they should be so proud. America’s second “black” president is going to be part of their neighborhood. Honkies full of white guilt will be flocking to the neighborhood to worship at the Alter of O’Bama.
If Obama is forcing them to move out of Chicago, then he is doing them and especially their children a huge favor.
I don’t care.
Well, that won’t last long. The city is sinking further into the swamp, and the new mayor will hasten its decent. Along with anyone who has the money to flee has been doing so and it will escalate more so as time goes on. The new old Detroit, in the making. Adios Chicago, it was wonderful knowing you, at least for the previous 100 years, prior to the last 20 or so. And as for the citizens of Chicago, you’ve voted in Democrat mayors for the past 90+ years, observing the slide the entire time. Enjoy the rotting corpse of a once great city. You deserve this, good and hard.
I guess they should move to Martha’s Vineyard like Barack and Michelle.
Their attitude is basically “if you pay me to care, I’ll care.”
Property values go up, it’s racist. Property values stay low, it’s racist.
Where did anybody get the wild notion that Chicago Jesus ever cared about anything but himself? A far left black candidate won the mayor’s race yesterday over a moderate white democrat. Don’t try to convince me they don’t vote skin color first.
Jesus just left Chicago.
Guess who they voted for...
Zero f*cks given.
Embrace the SUCK, SUCKERS!
I thought Michelle was the altered Obama.
Would love to know what was given to the donors while Obama was in office that would compel them to open their wallets for an ex-president.
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