Posted on 12/20/2017 8:15:13 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Looks like Barack Obama is going to have to learn to live with disappointment. He has prepared for his presidential library for years. It’s part of his legacy.
When Obama was elected, Chicago treated him literally as if he was the second coming of Christ. He was their favorite son. Nine years later, not so much. They are beginning to see the real Barack Obama at long last.
The citizens of Chicago are balking at the plans for Obama’s library. In its initial bid for the right to host the library, put forth on behalf of the city, the University of Chicago offered large tracts of idyllic land in Washington Park and Jackson Park as two potential sites. Chicagoans were perplexed… their dear leader could build his temple in a more appropriate location. “Why not build it in one of the many blighted areas?” they asked. “Why are you taking a huge chunk of our parks?” That’s when Barack Obama told the city of Chicago that either it would be built in a Chicago park, or he would have his monument built in New York or Honolulu.
After Obama selected Chicago and the Jackson Park site, protests began to grow. Residents of Woodlawn, the park’s district, addressed their local government and wrote op-eds in the city’s papers to let Obama know they were upset. They feared the project would rapidly gentrify the minority-majority area. It could force out people who have lived there forever. And it would likely ruin the park as a community gathering place.
In May of this year, protesters began a campaign to implore the Obama Foundation, the group overseeing the library’s construction, to sign a community benefit agreement (CBA), which would commit the Foundation to setting aside jobs for residents around the library, protecting low-income housing, supporting black-owned businesses and strengthening neighborhood schools. I know you will be shocked, but the Foundation flat out refused. When a resident personally asked Obama to sign the agreement at a September public meeting about the library, Obama refused as well. A man of the people no more.
Obama’s Foundation has steamrolled these people at every stage of the process, showing just how little he cares what they think. The whole thing is ironic on its face. His library is supposed to inspire visitors and locals “to make a positive change in their communities,” yet the project has already begun to alienate the very community it’s meant to change. Hint… he’s a Marxist, that’s what they do in the end.
This is yet another abuse of power on Obama’s part. His library will neither contain his presidential documents, which have all been digitized, nor be administered by the National Archives and Records Administration — the two elements required of a presidential library. In fact, it’s not really a presidential library at all. The Obama Foundation has named it the Obama Presidential “Center.” It’s more of a temple or monument to the perceived greatness of Barack Obama.
The center, according to Obama himself, is a “gift to the community” that will spread his message. A ‘gift’ they are paying for with their taxes. The Foundation explains the ‘gift’ on its website by pointing out that the center itself will be a living testament to the values of Obama’s presidency. It boasts that the center’s design takes into account the expressed views of “Chicagoans like you,” and that the Foundation will “continue to ask for and incorporate your feedback every step of the way.”
When the center is finished, it will include a community garden, a “test kitchen” and a recording studio where visitors will be able to “create their own songs, speeches, short films, and interviews,” according to the Foundation’s website.
The residents have said countless times they don’t want the center. They want their park, their low-cost housing and their culture. They want Barack Obama to actually listen to them the way he claims to. This is change they can’t believe in just as we all predicted.
Suck it up, Chicago. Mmm mmm mmm.
OK, how many in favor say Aye? Those who oppose and would rather it be located in Kenya, say nay.
You can lead a horse to a crap sandwich, but you can’t make him eat it.
Nice try Obozo.
I wonder if his liberry will have an interactive bathhouse.
There's the asshole we all know and loathe...
I would love for the truth about the Kenyanesian Usurpation to get out even though it would take down most of the government.
I think POS Obama has only been to Chicago once or twice since 2008.
Obama has been screwing the people of Chicago since the 1980’s so why should he stop when he’s on a roll?
Elect a commie and he’ll always take your property away for his own use.
Big edifices and legacies count; dead black children don’t.
It’s called “communist reality” and it just bit the fools of Woodlawn in their ass.
I’m actually glad that some are finally saying, “No thank you sir. I don’t want anymore”.
Bwwwaaahhhhaaaa!!!!!
Kenya...
THAT is Perfect!
Put the damn thing 20 miles east of the Loop.
Rofl, so the world famous “community organizer” totally ignores and then stomps on the “community” — what a typical Leftard.
The Tunnel of Reggie Love?
“Residents of Woodlawn...feared the project would gentrify the minority-majority area.”
Not likely!
Maybe it will get burned down.
Put the damn thing in the ghetto in DC, the only place that still loves his dumb ass!
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