4 February 28 - March 13, 2018 Chicago Street Journal (Continued from page 1) and president of the Fuller Products Company, publisher of the New York Age and Pittsburgh Courier, head of the South Side Chicago NAACP and president of the National Negro Business League, was a prominent black Republican. Fuller was a leading Black Republican although he always had an independent streak. During the 1950s, Fuller was probably the richest African American man in the United States. In addition, the ‘Godfather’ of Black politics, the late Lu Palmer who led the charge to elect Harold Washington, switched to campaign for former Republican Governor George Ryan. And a host of Black leaders supported present Governor Bruce Rauner. However, Democrats have enjoyed the Black voting base since President Lyndon B. Johnson. Mack Glover activist and historian said, ‘The Dixiecrats passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Bill which he also called “The Black Thing Bill”, just to give our people hope that they were going to do the right thing. But what our people never realized is that these people weren’t created to do the right thing. They never have and they never will enforce it.” The Civil Rights Act, did indeed, made blacks more beholden to the Democratic Party, and GOP standard-bearer Barry Goldwater's opposition to the Civil Rights Act opened the exits. In addition, Johnson/s We Are A 501c3 Non Profit Mentoring Organization Dedicated to Transforming the Lives of Children! Workshop Series Locations: Matteson: 4747 Lincoln Mall Drive Bolingbrook: 260 S. Schmidt Road appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court helped foster allegiance to the Democratic Party. Former President Richard Nixon's play for Southern white voters, pandering to their racial hostility and fears (the "Southern strategy"), told blacks voters that the Republican base would wear a white face. Glover said, “This locked us in as Loyal Democrats. Johnson statement was made and I quote,: ‘This will have these Black people voting Democrat for the next 200 years.’ Blacks go into the voting booth hitting democratic down the line, of the most racist people in office not even aware of it.” CSJ interview of the Chicago Tribune in the 2000 presidential election endorsing George Bush, lead to its Editor saying, ‘African Americans used to be Republican. We are as republicans has been consistent Blacks have not. It is our turn.’ Pritzker pitched the idea of picking Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, in part, because “Tt covers you on the African-American thing,” with former Governor Blovegecgic wiretaps on selecting Black replacements of former President Barrack Obama’s Senate seat. Pritzker apologized on his statement which still secured his Democratic strong hold of two-thirds of Black aldermen in Chicago and nearly half of African-American State lawmakers, with a host of black ministers. Historically, for Chicago in 1990, former Mayor Richard Daley lead the change in Chicago elections to become non-partisan when voting. One-on-One & Group, Mentoring 877-54-(2-4276) CHARM Girls Ages 9-18 Includes Group Activities & Community Service Projects. Matching Available for One on One Mentorship Register On Line Today! www.mycharm.org First African American Senator and Representatives were all republicans: Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS), Rep. Benjamin S. Turner (R-AL), Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Josiah Walls (R-FL), Jefferson Long (R-GA), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott (R-SC), 1872 Percy Coleman, 34th ward Republican Committeeman Joshua “J.C.” Griffin, Republican organizer There is no political party for the municipal elections. However, still for Chicago elections, the voters are reminded by candidates they are Democratic when there is no primary of political parties. Coleman said, “Nobody needs to tell African-Americans in this country that the Old New Deal from the Democratic Party isn’t working for them. In election after election, Democratic Party leaders take African- American voters for granted and year after year the condition of Black America gets worse. The conditions in our inner cities today are unacceptable. Too many African -Americans have been left behind. Coleman says he'd always considered himself a Republican and an independent voter, although he has voted Democratic. A Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll conducted in 1996 found that 15 percent of African-Americans sided with the GOP. The poll, this past July found just 7 percent of Blacks called themselves Republicans, marking a more than 50 percent plunge in Black support in two decades. Trump won less of 8% of the Black vote, according to exit polls. Chicago Republicans represent about 10% of the voters. African- Americans made up 28 percent of the Democratic vote in Illinois. Nat Thompson, writer and historian said, “Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green, or some other political “Independent” of any extraction; even if you have no interest in politics, every Illinois resident knows that the lion’s share of negative issues impacting the Black community have occurred under the direction of Democrats.” He continued to say “One path out of that abyss may very well be a Progressive Republican agenda. A ‘Progressive Republican” is a “RepubliCrat;’ part ‘Conservative Democrat,’ part ‘Liberal Republican.’ Democratic Alderman Howard Brookins (21) said he has no issue with Blacks being republicans. “We need Black folks on both sides of the aisle — Democrat and Republican. However, being a Republican in the age of Trump is a whole other level of Republican-ism.” On one hand, there is the clearly defined, anti-Black section of the party. The slogan “Make America Mack A. Glover, Independent political organizer Great Again” comes off as a battle call for the anti-black crowd. The roots of the Trump election goes as far back to slavery in the United States, right after the Civil war. Most of the Democratics were slave owners. Trump did not win the popular vote. Not even close, he lost by 2.5 million votes. He won the Electoral College – a voting system set up in 1887 to protect slave owners to maintain their representation and profit shares in slavery, given the population of the U.S. was controlled by the Union (Republicans) and the Southern states needed fair representation. Trump has incited fear and distress to all who are “different” – nationalities, religions, or gender, and non European people including viciously attacking and demeaning Mexicans and Muslims, and degraded women, openly, yet he won the election. When the cities and states accelerated their plans to remove Confederate monuments from public property, the President’s remarks regarding race he tweeted that statues of Confederate leaders should be left standing across the South. not challenging history and remaining Old South imagery. Coleman maintains, “Progressive Black Republicans are still Chicagoans only fair hope for political justice. But at this point it’s about re -defining the Republican Party. It’s about time that racist, disconnected Republicans learn that the Party does not belong to them; they’ve just enjoyed not having anyone from the other side of town show up. Those days are coming to a close. Chicago’s next Black mayor, or Illinois’ first Black governor might be a Progressive Republican. Joshua “J.C.” Griffin was about to be a sign of that. In the spring of 2017, J.C. began touring the state of Illinois in an effort to advance interest in his candidacy for the office of the Illinois Secretary of State (against incumbent Jessie White of 40 years in the seat). As a Republican Griffin cited the need for fresh ideas, renewed leadership and a new approach toward how Illinois executes its responsibilities in governing. Griffin did not get his candidacy on the ballot in December of 2017. Republican candidates face a practical problem in the Black wards. In many precincts, even the Republican election judges are often Democrats who are just doing the job for the pay. "The judges automatically give you a Democratic ballot," Griffin said. "You have to ask for a Republican ballot." He thinks some potential Republican voters are too embarrassed to make the public declaration. The issue with Black Americans identifying with Republicans is two-fold: In the city's African-American wards, a Republican vote is even more extraordinary. In 2010, for example, 5,700 Democratic ballots were cast in the 28th Ward on the west side—and just 50 Republican ballots. In the south-side 17th Ward, 7,193 voted Democratic and 58 voted Republican. Consequently, the face of Black Republicans has been defined largely, in the public mind. In 2013 Bruce Rauner opened his campaign office in the Chatham community. The established Black Republican base there was never consulted. Bruce Carter, who created Black Men For Bernie, decided Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party is not the future of the Black community. He feels responsible for alerting as many voters as possible that it was time to make a switch. “Truth hurts!” Said Carter, Democrats have always kept Blacks “in line”! Look at Planned Parenthood; its racist founder and where, strategically, these are located! You don’t think it is coincidence that the majority of these facilities are located in the poorer Black communities, do you?” Carter went on to say "Barack Obama/Clinton have failed all minorities. By marshaling the votes of all Americans – White, black, Hispanic citizens – we can reclaim our country and preserve its economic and safe future." Glover said, “We’re just caught in the middle. And as quiet as it’s kept and for those that don’t know, U.S.A. really stands for ‘Under Satan’s Authority.’ But that’s my opinion. Political activist Linda Hudson commenting on Pritzker remarks and the accountability of Black Democratics, “The Black politicians who stand by him as he tries to court votes in their communities, are problematic, too. His supporters insist the man who spoke on that November 2008 wiretap doesn’t speak for the man courting the Black vote today. That kind of blind party loyalty is further proof of the political disconnect between the Old Guard and today’s Black Millennial. If the third of Democratic voters in Illinois who are Black want to really see a Democratic Party that works for them, and especially young folk, they need to oust power brokers who look the other way at transgressions from White allies. We need more of those African- American leaders who make people like Pritzker and Blago uncomfortable.
Chicago Street Journal February 28 - March 13, 2018 5 (Continued from page 1) From 1970 to 1973, the CCAC convinced numerous investors to support their plan and together, they created the Chicago 21 Corporation and drafted the Chicago 21 Plan, a 125-page document made public in 1973, "A Plan for the Central Area Communities" Professor and politician historic Bob Starks and other, has been making the charge of genocide and re-gentrification that contributed to the demolition of public housing and displacement of Blacks in Chicago and even to the closing of over 60 schools, incarnation and crime injustice in Black communities today. Presently a similar plan is led by The Chicago Metropolitan Area Plan (CMAP) creator of the Chicago 2020 Plan, the Chicago 2040 plan and now updated to Chicago 2050 Plan. In 2009 Black Wall Street Chicago charged the CMAP of business genocide for not including a plan for black commercial and business development. Citing it would not give Black businesses a chance to prosper in their own communities. Black Wall Street programs called it outright racism or institutional racism. Since then CMAP has had a more outreach to the Black community. A past warning sign by noble leaders such as Marcus Gravey and addressed often by Malcolm X, “develop your own businesses before it is too late.’ Malcolm X talked about "black genocide" in the early 1960s, citing long term injustice and cruelty by whites against blacks. “We have not founded away to this date to act on it. And make the mayor stand up for what the city has done and is doing to Black People. Said Community activist Pereston Shanks Charges of GENOCIDE The charge of black genocide is not new. Before Kennedy made his remarks, Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin, who flew to New York to discuss what he described as a “quiet genocide” in Chicago’s black community with the U.N.’s assistant secretary-general for peace building support, Oscar Fernandez-Taranco. Many attempts have been done to address Genocide. In Dec. 17, 1951, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People.”, led by Paul Robeson and William L. Patterson, two giants of the struggle for African-American equality, delivered to the United Nations a petition presented to a UN official in New York. The petition listed 10,000 unjust deaths of African Americans in the nine decades since the American Civil War. It described lynching, mistreatment, murder and oppression by whites against blacks to conclude that the US government was conducting genocide of African Americans, by refusing to address "the persistent, widespread, institutionalized commission of the crime of genocide". Genocide was charge by Marcus Gravey in 1930’s where he declared the only address is form ‘Our Own’ and returned back to Africa. Malcolm X made the charge where he issue to bring the charge to the United Nations right before his death. Dr. Conrad Worrill traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1997 with a delegation to formally charge the U.S. Government with genocide and human right violations before the Commission on Human Rights. The delegation presented the commission with a "Declaration of Genocide by the United States Government against the Black Population in the United States" with 157,000 signatures. The Case of Political Genocide However, to proven it has been difficult to do. Black genocide has been referred to the both in the past and in the present. Kennedy said, according to a Chicago Tribune news report several areas in which the predominantly Black communities of the city are struggling with funding, education, and healthcare and law enforcement. He suggested Emmanuel and his administration are intentionally neglecting these communities, leaving the Black residents choice but to leave. "This is involuntary. That we’re cutting off funding for schools, cutting off funding for police, allowing people to be forced to live in food deserts, closing hospitals, closing access to mental health facilities," he added. "What William L. Patterson, delivered to the United Nations a petition presented to a UN official in New York in 1951 addressing Genocide of African Americans choice do people have but to move, to leave? And I think that’s part of a strategic gentrification plan being implemented by the city of Chicago to push people of color out of the city. The city is becoming smaller, and as it becomes smaller, it’s become whiter." Kennedy accusing Emanuel of leading a “strategic gentrification plan” to rid Chicago of blacks to make the city whiter and wealthier — something the mayor sharply criticized and denied, and opinion writers derided. Kennedy’s also criticized the Democratic establishment by contending homes in poorer neighborhoods are over-assessed while wealthy commercial properties get property tax breaks, spurred by “The Tax Divide” series by the Chicago Tribune and ProPublica Illinois. “This re-segregation, it’s not accidental.” Kennedy said at the Bronzeville church event in December. “It’s occurring because of governmental decisions. We’re resegregating our schools. We’re segregating our communities, not just on race but economically as well.” Emmanuel's office, as well as Chicago PD Superintendent Eddie Johnson responded to Kennedy's accusations, as nothing more than an attempt to get ahead at the polls. Emmanuel's spokesperson Matt McGrath also called Kennedy's accusations "divisive" and said he was "ignoring work being done in neighborhoods across the city." In Chicago where government has not address genocide, yet the Chicago city Council has voted in symbolic terms of Reparations for Black once to businesses ownership of slaves i.e. Morgan/Chase Bank, and under former Mayor Richard Daley apologized for slavery. But have no official position to the city wrong doing related to genenfication or genocide.” Emanuel has previously face criticism for his questionable decision during his time in office and poor handling of several high profile matters, most notably the Chicago PD cover up of the LaQuan McDonald not wanting to lose his Black votes. The South and West side is under the biggest land grab since the end of the civil war, largely driven by what many would say due to the University of Chicago. This land grab, which will establish depopulation then re-population, is gentrification on steroids and will affect every orifice of the Southside. Federal census reports show Chicago saw a significant decline in Black residents from 2000 to 2010, with over 175,000 Black residents lost before Emmanuel took office in 2011. The percentage of African- American residents was roughly.2 percent in 2010 and was reported at 29.2 percent last year, representing a decrease of roughly 100,000 Black residents. Boykin said there is a direct correlation between poverty and cri me, which must be addressed. He said the Austin community is 43 percent below the poverty line and that for the City of Chicago that’s 80 percent of people making less than $20,000. Political Genocide Starting in the 1950s, Chicago politicians steadfastly believed that the key to the city's economic survival was in revitalizing the central areas surrounding the Loop by luring white, middle- and upper-class professionals into renovated lofts and re-built neighborhoods. A case in the graph above shows the decrease of Blacks and the increase in Whites in area once known as Black communities. Harold L. Lucas Population loss drives the remap process and voting power. And the Gerrymaning of the Black majority wards of the city, such as the 2nd ward once 98% Black is now 65% White. The Black community has lost two aldermanic seats the 2nd ward and 15th ward. After the passing of Harold Washington, the Black political base in Chicago has been organized to be disorganized since that time. Local community organizations have fought these plans since their inception. As developers and planners vow they have the city's best interest at heart, those residents in the central areas charge that they are being driven out of their neighborhoods by new construction and rising property taxes. The developers continue to work with City Hall in planning for the future of Chicago's downtown area. Meanwhile, Black residents and many other neighborhoods fight to keep the dwindling number of housing units available to those that need them, and local business displacement. Shanks said, “It's all designed chaos. Englewood is dead. Once Rahm closes those high schools for a year it is a wrap. The new school will ONLY be accepting freshmen.” “How leaders are portrayed in history books, film, the news and media the charge of genocide has been on death ear during Black History Month.” WITHOUT THE HIGH, COST OF CABLE AND SATELLITE. Call NOW and you are Ready to view! 708 785-0580
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