Posted on 10/04/2023 9:56:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Tempers are flaring in the city of Chicago and protests are taking place on an almost daily basis now. But the city’s residents are not protesting against Donald Trump or the police or carbon emissions. They’re protesting the government of newly elected Mayor Brandon Johnson. And they’re not just upset about the rampant crime rates in the city, though there have been some protests about that as well. The most recent protests are in opposition to the city’s handling of the busloads of illegal migrants that are showing up in Chicago and the Mayor’s plans to convert more buildings and facilities into migrant shelters. The one that took place yesterday outside of the Amundsen Park Fieldhouse was particularly “lively” with people chanting “Hell no” over and over again. (Fox 32 Chicago)
On Tuesday afternoon, a protest took place outside the Amundsen Park Fieldhouse in the city’s Galewood neighborhood, where residents voiced their concerns about a plan to transform the space into a migrant shelter.
“We ain’t having that. No! You want to tell us what to do in our park? You cannot do that! We pay our money,” said Linda Johnson, community member.
Critics argue that turning the site into a migrant sanctuary will disrupt crucial park programming and youth activities for residents – programs that took years to build.
The protesters had an impressively disciplined message, even if they were “loud and rowdy” as the local news described them. The current plan would convert the park into a shelter and the people from the neighborhood were having none of it. One woman with a bullhorn said, “We ain’t having that. No! You want to tell us what to do in our park? You cannot do that! We pay our money!”
Others explained passionately how it had taken years to develop sports and community programs at the park for youths, many of whom have no fathers at home. Mentors and coaches come down and, in some cases, “a lot of these coaches, they are their father,” as another woman said. Later, a town hall was held inside the fieldhouse and some local elected officials came to speak and take questions. Some of them clearly regretted it. The meeting was described as being standing-room only. And one woman took to the podium and called out the Mayor directly. She said, “What I want to say is, Mayor Brandon Johnson, we are disappointed in you. This is the community that supported you, how dare you!”
Another protest and town hall erupted on the same day in the Pilsen neighborhood, with locals objecting to a migrant shelter that had already opened there. They complained that the police were being called to that shelter daily and there was drug dealing and violence taking place in a formerly calm neighborhood. When local officials attempted to speak to them it didn’t go much better.
These people are clearly upset and want the city to change course. There are almost no Republicans left in Chicago and certainly none in high office. So these are Democrats screaming at Democrats. And in the video clips we’re seeing from the local media, these are primarily Black Democrats yelling at Black Democrats. These are supposed to be the people that the party cares about and relies on the most. But they’re fed up. Will this lead to a change in local voting patterns? Or at least better decisions by local officials that better serve the public’s needs? It’s too soon to tell, but it just feels like there are storm clouds on the horizon and a change is in the air. Time will tell.
the point at which conservatives are now beginning to be understood.
I saw a Black commentator on social media make the comment “Black people have to wake up. The illegals are here to replace them”.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Embrace the “$uck” you voted for.
Elections have consequences.
They will never vote Republican. The GOPe let the Democrats damage the Republican brand with years of racism smears without fighting back. They will stay home instead.
All this crap was happening before Brandon Johnson’s election. Eat it Chicagoans.
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yup, this is what they wanted. Let em burn it down.
HAHAHAHAHA!
I shouldn’t laugh.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
I’ve been saying something similar for a few years now.
Back in the 70s / 80s, all the scaremongering about Social Security. Now they don’t need the seniors’ votes, not a peep.
Same is going to happen to the black vote - once they no longer need it, blacks will be ignored.
It’s all going Hispanic now.
Until, once again, the powers that be no longer need their vote. Then it will be on to the next group.
They are going to have a mess next year for the convention. Start stocking up on popcorn.
Maybe these protests from minorities are what convinced the Biden Regime to shockingly start building a wall along the Texas border.
A problem that I see here, is where are the Blacks going to go?
They’ve trapped themselves in the welfare system. I cannot see them leaving the democrats.
Yet Republicans don’t try at all to get these districts to change their voting.
democrats are simply to stupid to be in charge of anything.
Republicans ain’t much better
I’ll bet they have no ideas they are voicing conservative Republican beliefs.
since tech/phone support is now answered by broken english voices working for utility companies, mortage companies, etc... I believe you!!
They are not. I talk to my democrat acquaintances. They are like the newscaster who stated she had myocarditis requiring hospitalization and she is taking the next booster. They will stand by and watch their kids be sterilized by the same school who have difficulty just giving asthma meds to children.
Every black person I know has rejected the family destruction of the left and are college grads for the most part. But still vote dem. It’s weird and honestly with republicans who will offer DACA amnesty, sign blank checks to big pharma, ban bumpstocks, allow unvetted Syrians in, lockdowns, not even essentials like toilet paper, pay people to stay home and to perpetuate his implementation of utter tyranny l, give them mail in ballots.. who needs dems.
Now he doesn’t know if a man can become a woman and stood by Disney groomers because money talks louder than sterilized 8 yr olds.
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