tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670547542156136826.post5822809323072824213..comments2024-03-10T03:08:26.496-05:00Comments on The Sixth Ward: Proposed Chicago ward remap would add Hispanic seats - Chicago Sun-TimesLevoishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11738239742618133212noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670547542156136826.post-26459910023555034262013-07-24T22:32:35.209-05:002013-07-24T22:32:35.209-05:00I'm glad somebody sees this and recognizes tha...I'm glad somebody sees this and recognizes that the wolves are about to be upon us....black folks that is. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670547542156136826.post-76740244083943175692011-11-13T16:11:49.056-06:002011-11-13T16:11:49.056-06:00A very passionate person, signed "Irate in th...A very passionate person, signed "Irate in the 6th Ward", contacted my blog about the plans for remapping. Since you are the preeminent blog for the 6th Ward, I figured that I would pass this person's comments to you.<br /><br /><br />From: Irate in the 6th Ward!<br /><br />If anyone from the 6th Ward attended the remapping meeting held by Committee<br />Chairman Alderman Richard Mell last night at the Morgan Park High School<br />auditorium, well, you ought to be IRATE! If there was ever a reason on why<br />black folks are always on the losing end, well-- that meeting was a prime<br />example of it. That entire meeting was dominated by the 19th Ward who<br />showed us why white folks get what they want!<br /><br />Here were white people organized TO THE MAX to protest any remapping of the<br />19th Ward. They had signage: lawn and window signs and they had stickers for<br />you to wear too! Plus, they had their Alderman, Matt O' Shea, leading the charge!<br />Check out his 19th Ward Aldermanic website: http://the19thward.com/<br /><br />So I ask you, who do you think the City Hall folks will be listening to? What<br />the hell is wrong with our ward? What the hell is wrong with us!<br /><br />You got the community groups of West Chesterfield and Roseland Heights<br />trying to get folks aroused and focused. You got GCA trying to support those<br />groups. But where is Chesterfield on this? Where is Park Manor on this? Where<br />is Chatham Avalon on this? Who gives a damn about a pancake house right now?!<br />We are about to watch our ward splinter into nothingness!<br /><br />The Black Caucus, who hired our former Alderman (Lyle), is trying to suppress<br />the best black voting block in the city! It's us people, us! And do you see a<br />back story here. And this is what I have to say to Alderman Brookins, who<br />hired Lyle for this job: here's my $200 notion on your remapping recommendation<br />for the 6th Ward cause it's worth more than two cents: why don't you let the 6th<br />Ward take over the streets from 79th to 87th that contain West Chatham--at least<br />that's what those residents called themselves. You know, that small business area<br />across the expressway that you keep in your ward!<br /> <br />Why don't you give us the area that contains Lowes, Walmart, Aldi and Home<br />Depot all the way over to Simeon High School. Then maybe, it would make<br />some sense to cut off the 6th Ward at 87th Street! Let's face it, your ward<br />would never have gotten those businesses if those companies hadn't<br />eyeballed the professional and semi-professional residents who live in<br />Chatham! Or the Chatham seniors who were former city, state and county<br />professionals with their solid pensions. Do you you think, Brookins, that we<br />are so stupid in the 6th Ward as not to understand those "Brainy Smurf" ideas<br />of yours!<br /><br />Does every adult in the 6th Ward need a pimp slap to get out of this malaise?<br />People, they are about to snip away a third of our ward and leave us like a shorn<br />Samson. We're the ward that has the real voters' strength! Don't let the Philistines<br />take that away from us!BlackTalkTonyhttp://blacktalktony.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com