Black Caucus mapmaker wants to preserve 18 majority African-American wards – Chicago Sun-Times*

In the 2020 Census, Hispanics bypassed Blacks, becoming Chicago’s largest minority. The Hispanic population increased by 5.2%, or 40,656 people — to 819,518. Chicago’s African American population dropped nearly 10%, by 86,413 people, to 801,195.
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debtsor
2 years ago

The Black wards tend to elect old school machine Democrat politicians; but the hispanic wards these days are hiring straight up socialists through the DSA. Which is worse?

Last edited 2 years ago by debtsor
The Paraclete
2 years ago

Mitigate, the latest and coolest buzz word, fits every situation or gathering. Mitigate is French for play with the numbers until the come out Right!

Rick
2 years ago

For the most part Hispanics don’t abort their babies, blacks for the most part do abort their babies. Hispanic families are strong, more fathers are present, where they are not present there is always a grandfather. If the Black Caucus chooses to use race as the basis for everything. They cant pick and choose what facts to ignore when it comes to race demographics.

debtsor
2 years ago
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The abortion rate is slightly better: The CDC data also reveals that the Black abortion rate (abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years) exceeded all other races: Black abortion rate: 25.1 Hispanic abortion rate: 11.7 White abortion rate: 6.6 This means that the Black abortion rate was 3.8 times higher than the white abortion rate (25.1 v. 6.6) and 2.15 times higher than the Hispanic abortion rate (25.1 v. 11.7). But hispanics have illegal immigration, and a lot of it, too. The city keeps these numbers private for ‘privacy’ but the best information anyone can find out about the number of undocumented students in CPS… Read more »

nixit
2 years ago

Sorry, but this would come at the expense of Hispanic wards.

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