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"My community is on the bottom of everything in America — education, single parent households, violence, and on. It is not fair that they were born into such a deprived area but that is their fate.... They may face racism just as a Jew may encounter anti-Semitism, but by aiming high they will land higher and when they pass along these good faith lessons to their children, that generation will land even higher."
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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From 2011! Colorblind Ideology Is a Form of Racism: A colorblind approach allows us to deny uncomfortable cultural differences. Problems with the colorblind approach. Colorblindness pretends differences don’t exist. Racism? Strong words, yes, but let’s look the issue straight in its partially unseeing eye. In a colorblind society, white people, who are unlikely to experience disadvantages due to race, can effectively ignore racism in American life, justify the current social order, and feel more comfortable with their relatively privileged standing in society (Fryberg, 2010). Most people of color, however, who regularly encounter difficulties due to race, experience colorblind ideologies quite… Read more »
>>Along with my faith, I made the aspirational American values of hard work and personal responsibility the focus in my community<<
Pastor Brooks speaks truthfully & wisely…
His message is for all of us…
Thank you for your honest assessment, Pastor Brooks.
Let’s hope and pray for the best for the City.