{UAH} IS A BLACK REVOLUTION COMING TO CHICAGO?

Is a Black Revolution Coming to Chicago?

 by Larry Horist 

 

As in most major cities, the black residents of Chicago vote Democrat – sometimes as high as 95 percent. It has always been assumed that the Chicago Democrat political machine had a lock on that vote.

It has also been imponderable why that should be the case. Nothing has oppressed urban blacks more than the longstanding Democrat control of our major cities. With virtual one-party control of the cities, Democrats have maintained racist policies that have kept millions of black Americans segregated, impoverished, uneducated and welfare dependent since Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal of 1930.

 

It is the reason that virtually every major civil rights demonstration, protest and riot outside the old Democrat Dixie have happened in Democrat-controlled cities. It is the reason why Martin Luther King chose Chicago as the first northern city to bring his civil rights movement.

 

I first became involved in minority issues in Chicago more than 50 years ago – and spent a lot of time in the inner city since then. Virtually nothing has changed in the ghetto except for one thing. Those all-black segregated neighborhoods are a lot more dangerous today than they were back then.

 

Not only were the people of the “hood’ badly disserved by the white power structure, but also by a cadre of black politicians beholden to the white political bosses for their position, power, prestige and profit. In the plantation politics of big city governance, many took on the roles of “House Negros” (to be polite).

 

Despite the mistreatment by the racists in city hall, blacks would vent their political anger and frustration against non-existent Republicans. Urban Democrats – with Chicago as a prime example — were in charge of those police departments that were killing young black men, or not protecting the community from the deadly gangbangers and drug cartelians; in charge of a separate-but-unequal school systems that were not educating black kids while sending kids from white schools to college; in charge of the prosecutors and courts that were filling up our prisons with black kids, and for longer sentences, than comparable white offenders; in charge of the housing departments that allowed crony slumlords to skirt the law with dangerous overcrowded tenements; and in charge of the streets and parks departments that allowed infrastructure in black neighborhoods to deteriorate. These were all the manifestation of institutional de facto racism.

 

But times, they are a changin’. In the past few years, there have been signs that the black community is finally catching on. On my Facebook, I have many black friends, many from Chicago, of course. They are not happy campers. They are talking about supporting challengers to what in Chicago is just referred to as “The Machine.” Not only are they speaking out against the boys in city hall, but against those black alderman, state representatives, state senators and congressmen who have ill-served the community for generations. Many even express disappointments in President Obama – often in very harsh terms. As one community leader put it, “He (Obama) ain’t done shit for us.”

 

While the black community in Chicago has tolerated more institutional racism and oppression under the rule of Democrats, the thing that appears to have finally triggered a detachment of political loyalty is the high number of people being murdered in the Windy City – especially all those innocent children. It has become statistically more dangerous to live on the westside of Chicago than in Afghanistan. This past weekend alone, 60 people were shot – 10 fatally.

Recently, there was a full-scale protest against Mayor Rahm Emmanuel with demands that he resign. One protester interviewed on the news said that no one should assume that the black community in Chicago is a Trump-free zone. When folks showed up with anti-Trump signs, they were booed by more than a few protestors.

 

One YouTube video that went viral last year featured two inner-city guys directing their ire at the Democrats. “They tell us the Republicans are the problem, but when I look around, I don’t see no Republicans. I only see Democrats.”
Black loyalty to the Democratic Party has never made sense, but it would appear that – as the saying goes – the chickens are coming to roost.

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