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Rather than fight over political power, Stacy Davis Gates, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union said Black and Latino aldermen should create a coalition and recognize that engaging in a power struggle only serves the interests of the white majority.
“White supremacy to me looks like melanated people fighting over boundaries at the expense of the real fight of investing in people,” she said. “It’s not about what white people get or don’t get. It’s actually about Black and brown leadership, fighting each other and missing the moment to fight for the investment that goes to the people in their communities. That’s the fight.”
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Well Stacy, just how many of your despised “white people” do you represent in Chicago schools? Promoting segregation much?
We will end up having to rename that beautiful and charming roadway on the lakefront again before long.