Posted on 03/11/2018 7:19:55 AM PDT by Libloather
A panel of national and local experts, comprised mostly of African-Americans, lambasted Chicago city officials in a meeting Wednesday night for how they have worked closely with the Obama Foundation to build the Obama Presidential Center on public land despite criticism and serious concerns from representatives of the South Side neighborhood.
"You have all this talk about collusion between Trump and Russia, right? To me, that sounds like collusion between the city and the university, and we see the same thing happening in relation to this," one of the panelists, Jawanza Malone, executive director of the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, said.
University of Chicago professors, leaders in the black community, and experts on historic preservation and architecture repeatedly condemned former President Barack Obama and his organization for engaging in closed-door negotiations with the university and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who served as Obama's first term chief of staff, and said the Democratic leader is ignoring the historic black community's needs.
Panelists indicated that their main gripe is the lack of representation by those overseeing the project. The speakers also listed other grievances they had with the current plan, though they agreed the center itself was not the issue, but rather how it was being rolled out.
Below is a list of 13 of those concerns.
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I love it how blacks are turning on the 44th President.
You can’t make this stuff up!
It’s the Chicago Way - they’ll do what they want and to hell with you.
Meanwhile, you will vote for them again and again.
Any chance HUD could propose something different for the area that provides a couple of thousand jobs? That would screw the Dmicrats royally,
7. The University of Chicago's winning bid to put the center in Jackson Park has never been made public to this day. Panelists are concerned with the university's "land-banking" in recent years, buying millions of dollars of property around the neighborhood since 2014 in what some said is an effort to have real estate they can cash in on once the center prompts gentrification and spikes real estate values in the area."
"This is an all-reward, no-risk situation for them. They have no skin in the game, but now they can develop and make money off the land they own, rather than using some of it for the OPC. And, we do know theyve spent millions of dollars in the past few years buying more land on the South Side," Birnbaum said. "Weve never seen the University of Chicagos bid for the OPC. What's in it? And we need to know about the universitys landholdings on the South Side. Right now that information is about as available as President Trumps tax returns."
Word up to 45...
Everything your administration is doing is digitally created and stored. There is no need for a physical space for your archive. Taxpayers will appreciate it when you refuse to create a monument to yourself on their nickel.
Word up to 45...
Everything your administration is doing is digitally created and stored. There is no need for a physical space for your archive. Taxpayers will appreciate it when you refuse to create a monument to yourself on their nickel.
Put the museum in Havana.
The architecture would fit.
The elections are rigged. In many districts, the incumbent Chicago Democrats are running unopposed. Those who draw challengers are underfunded. Ballot access in Illinois is difficult.
I cannot blame voters when they are stuck with bad candidates or no alternatives.
He said, "I fear when the Republicans "take over" they are going to turn all of our parks into land development projects. R's don't care about the environment."
Wish I could ask Redford what he thinks about Obama wanting to develop one of the oldest historic parks in America, for an ode to Obama? Probably fine with him, its BHO of course. Kinda like a NYT editor carrying in her purse a little worship image of their black savior.
I’ve often wondered what he would put in it. After all, he has sequestered virtually every document from his past and he sure as hell didn’t do anything worthwhile when he was in office.
After 8 years, you wonder why at least ONE person from the MSM didn’t stand up at a press conference and ask: “Mr. President, you are the first President in the history of this Republic to sequester virtually everything from your past. Why is that?” Eight years and millions of people wanting to know, and not ONE had the stones to ask the question. Why? Because they feared the answer.
“Wish I could ask Redford what he thinks about Obama wanting to develop one of the oldest historic parks in America, for an ode to Obama?”
Or ask him about the impact his ski resort had on a mountain.
What has Barry ever done to benefit Chitcago? He used the chitty for his own personal gains. He basically ignored it when he was pResident except his failure to get the Olympics. Hes an interloper and craps on Chit- town from a distance now. He could care less about what benefits the city instead of himself.
Like Detroit, the South side of Chicago, which Obama and his acolytes falsely claim as his own, is just full of empty land with derelict buildings. He could find available land literally anywhere on the South side, but still insists on stealing 20 acres of one of the few nice public parks in the area.
He was never one of them. He grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii.
By the time he arrived in Chicago he was already an effete poser.
Same thing has Republicans voting for cheap labor importers.
‘Ive often wondered what he would put in it.’
Obama has helpfully answered that question. His Cenotaph will be home to “Michelle’s dresses.”
I have no problem with modest presidential libraries.
But they’ve grown out of control. They have more in common with Roman temples to deceased Emperors than repositories of history.
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