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“White people came to expect the right of way in public spaces,” wrote Kenny Allen of The Daily Northwestern. “White people who were accustomed to moving through the world like that — intentionally or not — taught their kids to move through the world in the same way. And the racism that undergirded Jim Crow wasn’t eliminated just because the laws were no longer overtly racist.”
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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Another one of your tolerant commenters talking about civil war and eliminating people from society. The death penalty crime? A different opinion.
Rarely happens, right Mark?
Correct. Rarely.
Has this what America has succumbed to? Some of you all have lost what little brains you had.
This guy has a point, but it’s not racial. No one knows proper sidewalk etiquette. How many times have you approached a large group of people chatting and walking and not one person tries to yield to you? Groups yield to individuals, runners yield to walkers, young yield to old. Get with the program, people!
One of my pet peeves walking in downtown Chicago. Some people are totally lacking in common sense.
What’s worse, even worse, is that the don’t walk signal is A FREAKING ORANGE MAN, as in ORANGE MAN BAD, DON’T CROSS NOW, BAD!
Northwestern’s reputation is in the trash. The degree no longer has any value, it’s an embarrassment to society. Yale is named after a slave trader and Northwestern has the reputation for the dumbest woke students.
Ignorance, mindlessness and arrogance have no color, ethnic or economic boundaries. Each sentient being is the center of their own universe; get used to it and live together in peace and mutual respect.
What a nitwit. He probably never thought about the fact that the overwhelming majority of NU students didn’t come from Jim Crow states and have never lived in Jim Crow states. NU is rapidly becoming a school for coddled nitpicking whiners. Maybe this kid should go to a campus safe space so he doesn’t encounter too many microaggressions that might make him feel threatened and oppressed.
Now even how white people walk is racist? What next, how we breathe is racist too? That can’t be far behind.
We have descended into madness, and it started on university campuses.
Yes you have a point. College used to mean trying to better oneself. Now it is just a think tank for leftist/Marxist/Communist ideology.