Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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.”

...

(Excerpt) Read more at cwbchicago.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-56 next last
To: allendale

“The decline of America began in 1960 Chicago when Mayor Daly stole a Presidential elecion from the American people.”

Nope.... go further back than that.


21 posted on 07/09/2024 6:34:43 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: mewzilla

Pray for the law-abiding in Chicago.

Deep State is doing its best to exterminate them.


22 posted on 07/09/2024 6:35:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: LastDayz

Since the early 1910s is where I’d put ut.


23 posted on 07/09/2024 6:36:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Salman

Mayor Brandon Johnson lied, innocent human beings died.


24 posted on 07/09/2024 6:38:09 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Carry_Okie
It's our fault that they're killing each other.

He's letting us off the hook. It's not you and me. It's Nixon. I mean really. Who misses Nixon?

Because blacks are not numerous enough in Chicago to re-elect him if it splits on racial lines.

He needs the White vote. It was really close versus Chuy García last time around.

25 posted on 07/09/2024 6:38:36 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: mewzilla

Ding... Ding... Ding


26 posted on 07/09/2024 6:41:09 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Salman
If a party politician gets only 10% of a targeted audience to consider something, it's still worth the effort; if they throw enough excrement at a wall, eventually something will stick...

...and they never run out of excrement.

27 posted on 07/09/2024 6:42:21 AM PDT by niteowl77
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salman
not-my-fault
28 posted on 07/09/2024 6:43:36 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salman

El Paso

¿Adonde?

¡Chicago!


29 posted on 07/09/2024 6:44:25 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salman

“...decades of disinvestment...”. Seriously? With a straight face? Hey mare......🖕


30 posted on 07/09/2024 6:47:15 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salman

Places like Chicago and Atlanta still have more opportunities than most places in the USA.


31 posted on 07/09/2024 6:48:00 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salman

Who “disinvested” in Chicago? There have been any number of persons not beholden to Richard Nixon in any way, shape, form or manner, and had distinct ties WITH Chicago, who could have more than made up for the shortcomings that went on for only a very few years long ago. And yet, and yet, for many years since these investors, if they may be called that, have failed to make any significant impact on the swirling cesspool that was and is the local political maelstrom that has been almost exclusively Democrat since before the time of Nixon.

Democrat Socialists are just NFG, no matter where they gain power. They have never, in all the history of their existence, ever promoted a greater good for the greater number.


32 posted on 07/09/2024 6:49:48 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salman

Blacks flocked to unions.

They got higher wages for decades.

When the factories became outdated, the employers set up shop elsewhere.


33 posted on 07/09/2024 6:54:47 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: OttawaFreeper

I’m from the government and here to help you

Ronnie gave the clue to what party that was democrat gravy train all aboard.


34 posted on 07/09/2024 6:59:20 AM PDT by Vaduz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: P.O.E.

Have you been un-America?


35 posted on 07/09/2024 7:03:43 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

Johnson didn’t run against Nixon, woogums. Unless you are referencing 1960 when Chicago was a peaceful town, before Cabrini Green and Good Times.


36 posted on 07/09/2024 7:03:53 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salman

I have a neighbor. He came from what my neighbors say is Poland and lived and worked in the Chicago area. For about four years he has worked on building a huge mansion complex on the double lots he bought on my Florida street.

My neighbor in the back is Polish. He is an electrician with his own company in the Hartford, CT area.


37 posted on 07/09/2024 7:04:48 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: P.O.E.
Do you remember the bills you have to pay?

Or even yesterday?


Not a myth left from the ghetto.
38 posted on 07/09/2024 7:04:54 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: castlebrew

For those youngsters amongst us. Nixon never ran against Johnson! That choice never existed.


39 posted on 07/09/2024 7:05:12 AM PDT by fremont_steve
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: fremont_steve

Idiot didn’t even know it was Humphrey that Nixon ran against.


40 posted on 07/09/2024 7:06:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-56 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson