Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski joins Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on Chicago's Morning Answer to talk about the increase of violent crime in the city, Illinois' credit rating and the NEA embracing critical race theory. Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
Another culture habit of American urban blacks which allows crime to continue is the failure of those involved in a crime or the victims of black on black crime to provide the police with information on the perpetrators. Over last weekend there was a “block” party gone rogue in Toledo, OH, with participants shot and one or two killed. When the police arrived to get information, crickets. The code of silence descends. BSM: black silence matters more than BLM.
This crime wave should be called “American black on black crime” because it’s the American born and bred black who’s on the destructive rampage. Somewhere I’ve seen that the higher achieving immigrant groups come from certain Asian nations as well as Nigerians. Generally these people are better schooled to begin with or they desire schooling and work to achieve it. When I lived in International House at UC, I was interested to see how blacks from other nations who lived there made an obvious point to distinguish themselves by dress, behavior, and language from American blacks, many of whom were… Read more »
Canada has a large black immigrant population. They are hard-working, entrepreneurial, and they are disgusted with how America has created a culture of dependence and excuses. There is nothing genetic about it. It’s the culture we’ve created.
This hand-wringing about Chicago’s crime curiously always focuses on the south and west sides. Hmm! When South Shore was primarily Jewish, was “crime” an issue? Don’t think so. When residents of crime-ridden neighborhoods talk about their plight, they almost always mention the “community”. What “community” are they talking about? The “black community”? The obvious “leaders” in Chicago are “black”: Lightfoot; Foxx; Preckwinkle; and Brown. Not a lick of “diversity” there. According to http://www.heyjackass.com, upwards of 80% of the wounded and the murdered are black on black actions. Occasionally diversity is to be found in the murdered victims, such as the… Read more »
It’s considered racist to discuss the underlying problems in the ‘community’ because the solutions involve acting more like white people: finish high school, have fewer children out of wedlock, take care of your kids, get an education or work a full-time job, shoot guns at the range instead of at your rivals. The community views these simple facts of life as whiteness itself. They call this whiteness because it requires emulating their oppressors. But it not whiteness, these are universal traits of the human nature all throughout the history of the world but in the closed minded, intolerant world of… Read more »