I grew up on the far south side of Chicago in Morgan Park. It was a diverse block of people, Jewish, Cubans fleeing Fidel Castro, a few Blacks, and me - Swedish looking. We all got along with each other. The 1968 Democratic Convention was really frightening. Our parents put us on "lockdown" so I could not go on the commute train to my first summer job - typing in the Geography Department at Encyclopedia Britannica. The 1970's were also really bad with all of the protests over the assassinations of ML King, RFK, Sr. Malcolm X, etc. An aunt and uncle rescued me. I ended up at a small private college in the East Bay of San Francisco, staying out there for 30 years. I'm in Evanston, IL now. I'm already really worried about what could happen at the 2024 Democratic Convention. My only hope is Governor J.B Pritzger takes away "home rule" from Chicago permanently and has the National Guard on stand-by. It would be a very bad situation on TV screens around the world. There's never been a competent mayor in Chicago. It was a really bad decision to hold the convention here.
"First We Get the Money" is considered DOA here in Chicago, more a fantasy justice exercise from Brandon Johnson's progressive amen corner than a blueprint for practical revenue-raising. Johnson floated most of its ideas during the campaign, but backpedaled fast and hard when so much of the city was aghast. In short, the massive, punitive tax plan isn't going to get even a polite, pro forma hearing from the City Council and business interests, and probably not even from Johnson himself. A big, common mistake the far left makes with shakedown tax schemes like this is failure to perform dynamic analysis; they assume the targets will just stand there like cows in the rain and take it. It's lost on them that, in Terry's phrase, these people have suitcases.
I was raised in Beverly Hills, when it was all white but my mother instilled in me the fact that no one was better or worse than anyone else. All should be equal, which is why I later became involved in Civil Rights. Chicago in the 60s had ethnic neighborhoods, and many were “ Blacks keep out”.
Obviously, this led to turbulence, which has continued to today.
Ah, yes, Mr. Cowgill, the 1968 Democratic Convention. I was never more proud of Abe Ribicoff than when I saw him call out Mayor Daley for "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago..." as Mayor Daley yelled an ethnic slur which was, thankfully, off mic.
I grew up on the far south side of Chicago in Morgan Park. It was a diverse block of people, Jewish, Cubans fleeing Fidel Castro, a few Blacks, and me - Swedish looking. We all got along with each other. The 1968 Democratic Convention was really frightening. Our parents put us on "lockdown" so I could not go on the commute train to my first summer job - typing in the Geography Department at Encyclopedia Britannica. The 1970's were also really bad with all of the protests over the assassinations of ML King, RFK, Sr. Malcolm X, etc. An aunt and uncle rescued me. I ended up at a small private college in the East Bay of San Francisco, staying out there for 30 years. I'm in Evanston, IL now. I'm already really worried about what could happen at the 2024 Democratic Convention. My only hope is Governor J.B Pritzger takes away "home rule" from Chicago permanently and has the National Guard on stand-by. It would be a very bad situation on TV screens around the world. There's never been a competent mayor in Chicago. It was a really bad decision to hold the convention here.
"First We Get the Money" is considered DOA here in Chicago, more a fantasy justice exercise from Brandon Johnson's progressive amen corner than a blueprint for practical revenue-raising. Johnson floated most of its ideas during the campaign, but backpedaled fast and hard when so much of the city was aghast. In short, the massive, punitive tax plan isn't going to get even a polite, pro forma hearing from the City Council and business interests, and probably not even from Johnson himself. A big, common mistake the far left makes with shakedown tax schemes like this is failure to perform dynamic analysis; they assume the targets will just stand there like cows in the rain and take it. It's lost on them that, in Terry's phrase, these people have suitcases.
I was raised in Beverly Hills, when it was all white but my mother instilled in me the fact that no one was better or worse than anyone else. All should be equal, which is why I later became involved in Civil Rights. Chicago in the 60s had ethnic neighborhoods, and many were “ Blacks keep out”.
Obviously, this led to turbulence, which has continued to today.
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Ah, yes, Mr. Cowgill, the 1968 Democratic Convention. I was never more proud of Abe Ribicoff than when I saw him call out Mayor Daley for "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago..." as Mayor Daley yelled an ethnic slur which was, thankfully, off mic.