Posted on 07/22/2007 3:10:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
'Ghetto Bus Tour' Showcases Chicago Projects
Sunday , July 22, 2007
AP
CHICAGO — The yellow school bus rumbles through vacant lots and past demolished buildings, full of people who have paid $20 for a tour of what was once among the most dangerous areas of this or any other city in the United States.
But for the woman with the microphone, this "Ghetto Bus Tour" isn't just another way to make a buck from tourists. It's the last gasp in her crusade to tell a different story about Chicago's notorious housing projects, something other than well-known tales about gang violence so fierce that residents slept in their bathtubs to avoid bullets.
"I want you to see what I see," says Beauty Turner, after leading the group off the bus to a weedy lot where the Robert Taylor Homes once stood. "To hear the voices of the voiceless."
Turner, a former Robert Taylor Homes resident, has been one of the most vocal critics of the Chicago Housing Authority's $1.6 billion "Plan for Transformation," which since the late 1990s has demolished 50 of the 53 public housing high-rises and replaced them with mixed-income housing.
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Sounds like a Marxist utopia.
Yep, most of the high-rise housing projects are gone, but not the gangs, whose main business is selling drugs. Last estimated count for gang members in Chicago was over 50,000; or 4 for every 1 Chicago cop. Makes you feel real nice and safe, doesn’t it?
From National Lampoon’s Vacation:
Clark: We can’t close our eyes to the plight of the city. Kids,.... you noticing all this plight?
*gunshot followed by a scream*
Clark: Roll ‘em up!
The story doesn’t say when they were built, maybe as part of President Johnsons Great Society, or maybe before.
The Great Society was one of the most successful government social programs in our time. I can’t think of any with a greater success rate, which is nearly 100%.
It’s goal was the destruction of the Black family. The results speak for themselves.
Robert L. Johnson sold out is now socializing with rich, white Democrats in Martha's Vineyard.
You’re quite right. And if you look at them, they are identical in appearance in every way to the massive apartment blocks that went up in cities like Moscow, East Berlin and Warsaw during the Stalin years (and later).
They were completed in 1962.
It was more like a lab experiment than a neighborhood. Build miles of big, anonymous concrete buildings, pack them with the poor and uneducated and watch what happens.
So you think that Johnson is responsible for the poverty,low levels of literacy, and high crime rate of blacks?
The failures of the Great Society.
[cue the “Good Times” theme]
Yep, but “da Mare” has done a pretty good job of keeping them South of Cermak and west of Halstead.
“Hey Beckie,pack our extra clips-we’re goin’for a bus ride!”
It's a toss up between LBJ and William Douglas.
Tell me was there shown a before and after picture of this area? I’m sure it wasent built this way! Someone had to make it this way mmmmm. I wonder. You make the bed you sleep in!
and watch what happens.
A few years later you drive by and every floor has burned out windows.
Most of the people on the East coast live in older housing than those projects. Stop making excuses for those people.
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