Posted on 05/24/2008 7:38:42 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
After working at Business International Corporation (a company that provided international business information to corporate clients) and NYPIRG, Obama moved to Chicago in 1985. There, he worked as a community organizer with low-income residents in Chicago's Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development on the city's South Side.
It was during this time that Obama, who said he "was not raised in a religious household," joined the Trinity United Church of Christ. He also visited relatives in Kenya, which included an emotional visit to the graves of his father and paternal grandfather.
Obama entered Harvard Law School in 1988. In February 1990, he was elected the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. Obama graduated magna cum laude in 1991.
After law school, Obama returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer, joining the firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He also taught at the University of Chicago Law School. And he helped organize voter registration drives during Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=12782369&page=3
Roseland, located on the far south side of the city, is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It includes the neighborhoods of Fernwood, Princeton Park and Roseland. Roseland was settled in the 1840s by Dutch immigrants who called the area "de Hooge Prairie", the high prairie because it was built on higher, drier ground than another Dutch settlement several miles further south in the Little Calumet River swamps which they called "de Laage Prairie", the low prairie. That community became South Holland, Illinois and it received an influx of Roseland residents during the white flight of the mid-20th century. Roseland supplied some workers to the Pullman car factory in neighboring Pullman, Chicago.
The much lauded mural "I Welcome Myself to a New Place: Roseland Pullman Mural," by Olivia Gude, Jon Pounds, and Marcus Jefferson, 1988, was designed to unite the predominantly African American community of Roseland with its nearest neighbor, the predominantly white Pullman community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseland,_Chicago
The following values are represented as an index, where the value 100 represents the national average. Below AverageAbove Average Total Houshold Expenditure 67 Contributions 60 Insurance 61 Clothing 68 Education 73 Entertainment 64 Food 70 Health Care 70 Household Furnishings 62 Shelter 67 Household Operations 62 Other 69 Personal Care 68 Reading 67 Tobacco 77 Transportation 64 Utilities 72 Gifts 62
http://homes.point2.com/Neighborhood/US/Illinois/Cook-County/Chicago/Roseland-Demographics.aspx
Population Total Population 35715 Male Population 15527 (43.47 %) Female Population 20187 (56.52 %) Percent Change Since 1990 -11.0 % Percent Change Since 2000 4.0 % Density (Persons per sq. mile) 14704.85 Median Age 30.92
http://homes.point2.com/Neighborhood/US/Illinois/Cook-County/Chicago/Roseland-Demographics.aspx
Has there been any progress in Roseland?
ddawzz Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008 1 posts, read 292 times Reputation: 10 ddawzz is on a distinguished road Default Has there been any progress in Roseland? Hi, I am thinking about moving to the Roseland community. I just moved back from Indaina and about ten years ago Roseland was not an area you wanted to be in at night if you get my drift. I have heard some good things about the area now and I hear that they are really trying to clean uo the streets. My question is has there been any progress in the community? I will not move my children in a community that is high in crime, low school scores, or no opportunities.
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Old 01-14-2008, 02:40 PM skye1974 DeceiveInveigleObfuscate
Join Date: Aug 2007 366 posts, read 68,745 times Reputation: 60 skye1974 will become famous soon enoughskye1974 will become famous soon enough Default Quote: Originally Posted by ddawzz View Post Hi, I am thinking about moving to the Roseland community. I just moved back from Indaina and about ten years ago Roseland was not an area you wanted to be in at night if you get my drift. I have heard some good things about the area now and I hear that they are really trying to clean uo the streets. My question is has there been any progress in the community? I will not move my children in a community that is high in crime, low school scores, or no opportunities. I wouldn't. It's still a very depressed area with high crime. Take a drive around at about 4 pm (in the spring or summer) and you will see it hasn't changed much.
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Old 01-14-2008, 04:43 PM Drover Resist viral ignorance.
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Old 01-21-2008, 03:32 AM misspetite Member
Join Date: Jan 2008 54 posts, read 11,598 times Reputation: 16 misspetite is on a distinguished road Default I visited on Friday and I think it's worst now versus 15 years ago. I was on the strip and so many stores are vacant and closed down.
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Old 02-15-2008, 03:15 PM Love Cobb Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 141 posts, read 25,670 times Reputation: 19 Love Cobb is on a distinguished road Default Oh I remember shopping at this ragedy store called Gatelys with my Aunt back in the 70's in Roseland. She lived at 111th and Parnell and Fenger High was down the street. I think my sister went to Burnside Elem back in the 60's. All this was when the whites were fleeing and blacks were moving in. My sister was like one of only a handful of black children in her class picture, too funny! Haven't been any where near Roseland in years, just brought back memories.
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http://www.city-data.com/forum/chicago/233198-has-there-been-any-progress-roseland.html
As a community organizer, how does he rate?
“Community organizer”
About as important as me organizing my spice cabinet or my collection of Popular Mechanics magazines.
“Community organizer”
About as important as me organizing my spice cabinet or my collection of Popular Mechanics magazines.
ACORN: Labor’s Ally Is a Bad Seed
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19737
As a matter of fact, if he gets elected, he wants the whole country to look like South Chicago.
I think that's one of those "code" titles that seems innocuous enough but probably involves some really dirty work.
After all, it politics, and he is a politician.
I thought he organized Wednesday bingo night at the Y for seniors.
I think it needs to yelled from a mountaintop.
“Hey Obama! Go out and organize a community!”
It means nothing,
just like Obamas’ accomplishments.
Congressman Billybob
It’s out there.
Keep looking.
If Obama was anything like the PIRG staff I interacted with, they were arrogant left wing professionals who treated the students paying their salaries like little children.
I ended up having zero respect for Nader, and I despised the kooky left wing professional staffers.
Thanks for the post.
He also was involved with ACORN before going to law school and after.
"Community Organizers" like Al Sharpton are thugs who stir up an unjustified anger in the mobs they create.
What good has Obama done for his "community?"
Nothing.
He has done NOTHING good for race relations in the slightest.
In fact, he has done quite the opposite.
Punks like Obama and Wright have stirred up anger in the black community toward white people.
And they did it without any fair, logical or rational justification.
They stirred up black anger to sell some racist books and make some cash.
They are despicable.
You’re preaching to the choir, there.
It's times like these that make me feel like I am living in a world gone completely mad.
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