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The University of Illinois System also has a broader “land acknowledgment” statement, which begins, “These lands were the traditional birthright of indigenous peoples who were forcibly removed and who have faced two centuries of struggle for survival and identity in the wake of dispossession."
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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Isn’t Stroger Hospital on the same tribal land? Let’s change its name as well. How will the Obama Foundation recognize their theft of tribal land?
How about UIC returns the remaining portion of the 15-year, $9.3 million deal w/ Credit Union 1 for the naming rights to the Pavilion and rename it the “Ojibwe, Odawa and Bodéwadmi Three Fire Peoples Arena”.
To the victors go the spoils.
Next UIC can acknowledge demolishing the Maxwell Street Market.
That’s really an uplifting gesture, it’s helped tremendously. I’m always cognizant of injustices happening hundreds of years ago. Where did they place the cigar store guardian?
My suggestion it is to tear down the entire U of I property, all buildings and facilities and return the property to the offended tribes. All employees will be fired and not re-assigned or rehired at another state school. That will solve the problem. After Illinois gets rid of testing for admission and promoting and graduating students who are totally unqualified for a degree so the school can brag about leveling the field for minorities, a degree from U of I will only be useful in an outhouse.
That’ll work! Subsequently they’ll get their PHD from an exit ramp school. Ya know Dr. Educator principle of the broken glass science academy. Illinois is like watching a handless person dealing cards.
And standing on one of those spots, can we , once the wave of guilt passes, just get back to the over priced “education”?
Tenured professors have contract rights. Dispossessed peoples and their descendants have ancestral rights that were taken without due process. Many current and former employees have contract rights to their pensions and health care. Owners of bonds issued to build or improve whatever have contract rights also. Heirs of donors presumably have rights to the funds contributed by their ancestors once they are used for ultra vires expenditures. Tax exemptions would likely be lost if university assets are not used for the exempt activities. Who knows what affirmative action commitments have been sidestepped entitling many to recovery under civil rights laws.… Read more »