IBD:
When more Americans are killed in the president’s hometown than in Afghanistan, even the media take notice. When will the president notice the carnage in the city run by his former chief of staff?
People are dying fast and furiously in Chicago, so much so that it caught the CBS eye and prompted “Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley to sit down Monday night with Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former chief of staff and mayor of this monument to progressive decay, and ask a very pertinent question.
“I got a letter from a viewer the other day who asked us why we were spending so much time at ‘The Evening News’ covering Afghanistan when more people were dying in Chicago,” Pelley said. “Why is the murder rate up 30%?”
Pelley put the number of murders in Chicago at 275 so far this year. On Monday alone, nine young people were shot in suspected gang-related violence, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Emanuel responded that crimes such as burglary, armed robbery and theft are down 10%. This is true, but it’s small comfort to the parents of Heaven Sutton, 7, who was killed as she tried to dodge bullets fired from the guns of gangbangers. She was selling snow cones at the time.
Heaven didn’t get quite the attention of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager killed by neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman. When perceived racism can be invoked as a cause of death, headlines blare. When it happens in a city beset by liberalism’s failures, crickets chirp.
Mayor Emanuel announced Monday that he’s devoting another $4 million to tear down vacant buildings where gang members live and store guns and drugs. Structurally sound buildings will be boarded up. But why are they vacant and boarded up? Why did 200,000 people flee Chicago in the past decade?
Chicago, like Illinois, is overtaxed and overregulated, a climate that attracts neither businesses nor people. It was the ideological incubator for a community organizer who would become president and blame all of America’s problems on those who worked hard and succeeded.
Another young man named Daryl Green 17 in Chicago was shot and killed because he would not join a gang. Where is Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson oh is it because he was killed by blacks and they only want people to think that it is only whites that kill blacks…the Sharptons are nothing but trouble and it scares me what is happening in this country because they do not agree a jury gave a verdict that they didn’t like. What about when OJ was found innocent the white people didn’t like it but they accepted it. So lets move on….
There will always be a black underclass – by design….these people will never be on any ‘equal’ plane with anyone not even their own race…things like that don’t happen to an ‘under class’ group created by design by their own (leaders) people.
…Otherwise, how would their elitist ‘black leaders’ ever be able to enjoy their nice homes, cushy jobs, nice lifestyles, gated communities, private schools for their kids, dining out in nice restaurants, vacations every year (or every month) … ???
These ‘leaders’ of the Black Community care not one ounce for the Black Community…the black community is so entrenched, so indoctrinated in the meme that they cannot do anything for themselves….and they live their lives in the box where they have been put…and will stay there…
Those not so popular ministers and reverends, and other black leaders who are genuine, who in their hearts truly want to help…are treated like dirt by the black community…. so sad, so there will always be that black underclass…
God helps those who help themselves….
The fruits of Lyndon Johnson’s great society.
@Mully:
Yep. Baby daddies were replaced with Uncle Sams.
I am always saddened when I ask high school student friends of my children which political party started the KKK, which party as recently as 2007 had a former kleagle of the KKK as a long serving US Senator, and which party resisted the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s…and they are shocked to learn it was in fact the democrat party. They seem stunned when they learn that a republican president had to send in the national guard to force a democrat governor to allow black children into previously all white schools.
The democrats propagandize that black men and women are incapable of achieving anything on their own due to alleged white racism, when in fact it is the leftist predilection for treating black Americans as infantile that keeps them as political slaves on the democrat plantation.
A democrat might respond to that comment by pointing out the obvious: Their party has elected a black President the last two elections.
By the way, 33 percent of all food stamp recipients are white; 22 percent are black.
I wonder what percentage of persons making their living from the manufacture, distribution, and sale of handguns are white, compared to black?
@Greg:
By the way, 77.9% of all Americans are white; 13.1% are black.
So what you are saying is that whites are vastly under represented in the food stamp rolls while blacks are over represented in the food stamp rolls by almost double?
Got it.
When did Magpul, Ruger and Henry, and other gun manufacturers, limit there hiring practices to “whites only.”