Maggie Cassidy, program director for the planning department, said abandoned and distressed Chicago properties are “concentrated in communities of color” for obvious reasons. “This is a pernicious legacy of segregation, residential redlining and the 2008 foreclosure crisis,” Cassidy said.
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.
“This is a pernicious legacy of segregation, residential redlining and the 2008 foreclosure crisis,”
I tire of the constant drumbeat of racism. If it isn’t racism, it’s Putin’s or Trump’s fault.
This tendency to attribute any deficiency to anyone but the people responsible is wearing thin.
Always remember the little boy who cried ‘wolf!’