“You’d think Amazon coming would lift people’s spirits, but we’re still feeling a sense of depression,” said Theo Brooks, the lone University Park trustee to vote against the deal. “You come home to a majority Black town, and there’s no grocery store, no life in the town center and crumbling streets. Amazon isn’t putting more police officers on the street. Amazon isn’t helping me with my taxes.”
So the black neighborhoods pay for Amazon while the White neighborhoods get free next day Prime delivery?
Governor of Alderaan
5 years ago
I thought not putting more police on the streets was a good thing
Platinum Goose
5 years ago
If Amazon workers were unionized then there would be no problem.
Poor Taxpayer
5 years ago
That is the way it works.
The Rich get richer and poor honest working taxpayer gets poorer.
It is their fault that they did not become a government worker.
Support your competition is the Illinois way.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
So the black neighborhoods pay for Amazon while the White neighborhoods get free next day Prime delivery?
I thought not putting more police on the streets was a good thing
If Amazon workers were unionized then there would be no problem.
That is the way it works.
The Rich get richer and poor honest working taxpayer gets poorer.
It is their fault that they did not become a government worker.
Support your competition is the Illinois way.