Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
I’d like to kindly remind folks that Illinois was a free state. A Republican president from Illinois (who like DJT did not win with a plurality) issued a proclamation freeing all slaves, none of whom lived in Illinois. Illinois sent many union men to their death to free the slaves. Illinois did not have Jim Crow, nor did it have the KKK, or lynchings, or systemic racism separating the races. It really makes zero, yes zero, sense for a city like Evanston to talk about reparations.
The party of the same KKK, Jim Crow laws, Woodrow Wilson, and LBJ (vile racists both) seems far more obsessed with race than their opponents, whom they constantly accuse of racism. And people fall for it. Every…single…time.