Dear Mayor Daley,
My mother always loved your father. She said he would take care of black folks. She said that Daley Sr. would have a good paying job for black people, one they could earn a living off of so there was enough money to take care of their families. I have not seen those traits in you. Your inactive nature towards the black community is shameful. The number of schools failing due to parents living in total poverty is terrible. Maybe she was lead down the path with your dad and you knew the truth about his feelings towards blacks. I would like to think the child is not continuing the sins of the father. Having the projects torn down because you and your dad took the point of view, no money to the low income blacks, don’t take pride in nothing over there. Up lifting the poor does not reflect badly on the society as a whole. There are many countries that pride themselves on caring for everyone, equally. Why we are singled out and given the shaft I just don’t know. I know you want to show yourself as a fair and equal politician. I commend you for coming out to march against the violence and being a strong supporter of Father Michael Pfleger but I am just totally floored and disappointed to see the figures in the paper about CPS. You are in charge of our children’s education and you have chosen to allow them to be at the bottom of the barrel. I am so disappointed in you. I had hoped for so much more from you. I think I might have voted for you when I returned to the Chicagoland area in 1989. Wages have stayed stagnant for the minority and you have done nothing but put them in harm’s way. Money, money, money is what the problem is. You’ve been to the neighborhood; you know what’s going on. There was always a social class structure with the people of color in your city. When you (father/mayor) built the projects it was a blessing. When you neglected it, it became a curse. When you took people who have been oppressed and neglected for years and moved them into the middle class black communities, they were not able to sustain the huge economic drain on the community that large amounts of black people would need. So you let the schools and neighborhoods fail. Chicago is built on neighborhoods. I just have to ask, what were you thinking? Did you really think good was going to come out of this? Now you have utter chaos in the black community and white community is wondering what can/are you going to do? I have no answers, just questions, why, how, what were you thinking?
Dear Police Superintendent Jody Weis,
Our schools need help. We are sitting ducks. Your police officers are sitting ducks. You have allowed children, CHILDREN, TO DICTATE TO YOU WHAT TO DO. IT IS TIME TO BRING IN THE NATIONAL GUARD AND PUT YOUR FOOT IN THE BEHIND OF THESE CRIMINALS.
Your actions show no concern for human life in this community. Get this city in order OR turn it over to someone who can do it. National Guard is to be used in such extreme situations. Let them guard something they can be proud of, our community. I am so disgusted with you and Mayor Daley. You show huge support for a faith based solution but not willing to put the force behind it to make it work. We need legal guns running something RIGHT now. Right now. Right now. My children are traumatized at our school. They are in the same locale of the most recent shooting on 65th and Drexel. They are traumatized beyond measure. How do you think they feel now? How are we supposed to teach our students under this pressure? God will judge what you do to handle this situation. How dare you show such disregard to the black community? Katrina will be nothing compared to the national black slaughter of our children. How dare you sit by and do nothing. Crime is down. Who cares, we are dying out here. We are dying out here. Help us please.
Sincerely and with much respect for your positions of authority.
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