Posted on 01/04/2018 5:02:12 AM PST by simpson96
Democratic governor candidate Chris Kennedy on Wednesday accused Mayor Rahm Emanuel of leading a “strategic gentrification plan” aimed at forcing African-Americans and other minorities out of Chicago to make the city “whiter” and wealthier.
“I believe that black people are being pushed out of Chicago intentionally by a strategy that involves disinvestment in communities being implemented by the city administration, and I believe Rahm Emanuel is the head of the city administration and therefore needs to be held responsible for those outcomes,” Kennedy said during a news conference about gun violence in North Lawndale.
“This is involuntary. That we’re cutting off funding for schools, cutting off funding for police, allowing people to be forced to live in food deserts, closing hospitals, closing access to mental health facilities. What choice do people have but to move, to leave?” Kennedy added. “And I think that’s part of a strategic gentrification plan being implemented by the city of Chicago to push people of color out of the city. The city is becoming smaller, and as it becomes smaller, it’s become whiter.”
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Kennedy, an heir to the iconic Massachusetts political family, has sought to appeal to African-American voters, focusing on the issue of gun violence and questioning the fairness of educational opportunities and property taxation in black neighborhoods. The names of his uncle, the late President John F. Kennedy, and father, the late U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy, still carry resonance among older black voters from the family’s leadership in the struggle for civil rights during the 1960s.
Kennedy, who has had a tough time raising campaign money, is searching for a path to victory in the March 20 Democratic governor primary. He has ramped up his critiques of the Democratic establishment
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Let’s see which Democrat can tell black people “you’re a victim” more than the others.
Those pics make him look like a rodent. We already know he’s a ‘Rat.
...he's fierce!
It is nice to see him lambasting Rahm Emanuel, though.
Looks like he is a corn-cob eating machine.
We got a call from this ass clown’s campaign asking us to vote for him in the primary. Odd, because we are registered Republicans.
But since he’s the most looney on their side we may just do it.
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My question is.........how safe is our forests with those choppers staring you in the face. This is the family that keeps on giving
“Kennedy, an heir to the iconic Massachusetts”
Iconic isn’t the word I’d use.....
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He should know how to diversify a white enclave
Just look at what the Kennedys have done for Hyannisport and Martha’s Vineyard
That poor man- he got an overabundance if the Skakel overbite gene
Facial gesture of submission
The Kennedy brains get smaller and the teeth get bigger.
On the other hand, that is exactly what DC did to its black population and why Baltimore is now a hellhole.
It’s good to see another Kennedy taking up the White Man’s burden. /s
The Dems are eating their own. This guy has an edge on many of them in the eating contest.
Well, people aren’t going to throw their money away and invest in areas that have some of the highest gun related crimes in the country.
Maybe Barack Obama will come back to ‘community organize’ things for them.
Ah, yes. Raise taxes on evil corporations in Chicago, because Illinois is so undertaxed as it is. The Indiana and Wisconsin economic development folks should fold Kennedy’s remarks into some more targeted advertising in the Chicago area.
These troubled cities know what the source of the trouble is - and they know they have no future unless it is addressed. Newark NJ rails against companies leaving NYC to settle in Jersey City (which certainly has gentrified over the past decades), but the fact is Jersey City’s (white) mayor was elected by an assortment of ethnic groups to create a healthy environment - while Newark’s ‘hoodrat mayor was elected by ‘hoodrats to transfer assorted ethnic groups’ incomes from around the state and country into their pockets.
Asbury Park’s “revival” years ago stopped dead when potential backers realized the gentrification only extended a couple of blocks; the ferals would still be within a few minutes’ walk from their intended victims.
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/?m=1
Check out “Strategic Gentrification” and “No Cameras”. Especially the comments at the latter.
Heh...food deserts. Because it’s RACIST for businesses to fail from being robbed all the time.
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