Our Segregated City
I am a black woman who is voting for Rahm if he gets on the ballot. I don’t need, or want a “coalition” to tell me who to vote for, and a black candidate does not automatically get my vote. I know many who feel this way, and I wish the media would stop focusing on these stories. —dwn2earth
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Speaking as a white person who eagerly voted for the first black President, I think racial polarization in Chicago is unfortunate.
You’ll never have anything valuable nor creditable on a global scale because of the hypocrisy and shit-eating grins of pretending that blatant, institutionalized racism don’t exist.
Oh yeah, it would be a good idea to have actually lived, walked, breathed, dislocated, and slept in the streets of the city to really get a dose of reality. The suburbs are fine, and so is the Gold Coast, but that ain’t the real Chicago they’ll have to deal with, day in and day out over the next few years.
Articles generally lead a little one way and little the other. There’s no way to avoid it: the writer has an opinion, too, no matter how hard he/she tries to stifle it. Simple syntax can vastly alter meaning and interpretation.
The scuttlebutt back then was that the movie provoked black theater audiences to violence, so when the film broke down—in the climactic scene, no less, as Radio Raheem and Sal, locked in combat, burst out the front door of the pizzeria into the street—I braced myself for the worst. Instead the other patrons, like me, sat there patiently until the projection was sorted out. So much for the racial apocalypse. —J.R. Jones
