{"id":1154,"date":"2011-06-07T22:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T02:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2011-06-07T22:13:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T02:13:40","slug":"rahmbo-to-solve-chicagos-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Rahmbo to solve Chicago’s “problem”"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2011\/06\/07\/emanuel-vows-full-force-of-law-will-bring-street-thugs-to-justice\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Another fine example of self-censorship by the media.\u00a0\u00a0 The story goes on at length about a problem with groups of youth wandering around the tourist parts of downtown looking for trouble or opportunity.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t spent time in Chicago, being in the Midwest and fairly flat, the city was rebuilt after the Great Fire using a square grid system.\u00a0 Streets are numbered with 8 blocks to the mile.\u00a0\u00a0 A few streets run at an angle – at some point, they started naming the streets on the South Side of downtown after the Presidents of the United States in order, but you won’t find a Reagan Avenue.<\/p>\n

Roosevelt used to the “dividing line” that was part of the social “rules” that everyone understood.\u00a0\u00a0 If your skin was black, you didn’t live North of Roosevelt – if you were white or hispanic or Asian, you didn’t live south of Roosevelt.\u00a0\u00a0 Whites have been fleeing the North Side, so that rule no longer applies – blacks have been moving out of the city as well, with Hispanics growing in influence in the city.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of my memories of living in Chicago (around 1991) was one morning being on a subway platform in Evanston (just North of the Chicago) and watching a Mexican woman and black woman getting in what appeared to be an unprovoked scuffle – maybe they had a prior history with each other, but it was pretty obvious that race was a factor.\u00a0\u00a0 It had the look for a “watcha looking at?” confrontation.<\/p>\n

So this stoy carefully avoids pointing out that this is a problem with black gangs.\u00a0\u00a0 The 3 names and addresses they mentioned are from 3500-8400 south, which puts them scarely in the poor black part of town – probably from public housing projects… 95th Street is an important dividing line on the South Side – the railroads have a major East\/West raised viaduct – south of 95th, the city was more inustrial and no longer residential.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a demarcation point, like 8 milre road in Detroit or 125th street in Harlem in New York.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Rahm didn’t get the memo from Eric Holder to not use police to intimidate\u00a0 black youth.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/atlantapost.com\/2011\/06\/07\/obama-and-department-of-justice-cracks-down-on-police-brutality\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2011\/06\/07\/emanuel-vows-full-force-of-law-will-bring-street-thugs-to-justice\/ Another fine example of self-censorship by the media.\u00a0\u00a0 The story goes on at length about a problem with groups of youth wandering around the tourist parts of downtown looking for trouble or opportunity. If you haven’t spent time in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}