October 29, 2008
"I'm 22 years old, and I'm from Chicago, Illinois. The South Side."
"My dream has always been for the world to hear me sing one time."
"Police recovered a gun today in an alley near where Jennifer Hudson's nephew was found shot to death inside a sport-utility vehicle on the West Side. It was not immediately known whether the gun was used in the killings of Hudson's mother, brother and nephew."
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What a staggering personal tragedy.
May I say something bloodless?
My hopes and expectations for her as an artist have risen dramatically.
How touching.
* sads *
The kind of thing that just shouldn't happen. It hurts to imagine what the youngest had to endure - seeing and then, feeling.
Clearly Chicago has become a quagmire - there's no signs of security or political progress, and Americans continue to lose their lives in a senseless, unwinnable struggle. I think we should pull out now before one more life is lost trying to win an unwinnable battle for people that clearly don't want us to be there. Maybe if we withdraw from Chicago, the locals will learn to get along and solve their own security issues.
-I'm Barrack Obama, and I want to do for American what Mayor Daley, Gov Blagojich and I did for Chicago - now that's change you can believe in (except for DC, Watts, Camden, Detroit, Baltimore and Newark, where it's pretty much more of the same).
That community is nothing if not well organized.
I'm 22 years old, and I'm from Chicago, Illinois. The South Side.
Lucky you.
Ann, would you please add "tragedy" to the Labels.
I see the compassionate conservatives are quick to pounce.
Ms. Hudson, and every story about the tragedy, identify her home as "South Side." The area actually is near the intersection of Roosevelt Road and Cicero, just off the Eisenhower Expressway. To Chicagoans, that's "West Side."
Irene said...
...West side.
The mother's house, where the murders happened, is not the location you describe.
I recall a sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams was also gunned down by a black thug they all knew.
Until blacks change their dysfunctional inner city culture and raise their young black men not to become perpetually angry, violent, animalistic "niggahs", these sort of "tragedies" are entirely too predictable. They happen almost as a matter of neighborhood and family grooming. Where education and responsibility are shunned, sloth and crime considered an acceptable lifestyle choice complete with prison time being considered a badge of pride. When you have young black men from those dysfunctional areas committing almost half the nations murders and rapes and over half the armed robberies despite being less than 2% of the population, well, this string of Jennifer Hudson like family "tragedies" will continue.
A black women is 7 times more likely to be killed by a black "man" as a white woman is by a thug or family member of any race. Black women have an AIDs rate 15 times that of white women. Not until they stop blaming whitey and the Po-Lice for everything will things change.
All the mourning and all the sorrow will not fix a thing. Only when blacks get a grip and control their own people's behavior. It is sometimes forgotten that the black underclass was not always like this. Less than 70 years ago, they were far poorer, but had crime rates and marriage rates similar to whites. Even today, there are all black neighborhoods filled with middle class blacks that escaped the inner cities, that reject those underclass values and have crime rates comparable to whites and Asians in similar circumstances.
So blacks are not "naturally" condemned to be like the thugs of Compton or the South Side as a function of race.
They can rise out of it and end most of the Jennifer Hudson tragedies and others instinctual reaction to seeing a group of young black males in too many areas of the country as dangerous threats. They can rise out of it, but only if they want to.
Maybe Obama's election will signal a new direction past the glorification of ghetto thugs, the blame whitey, police, and gov't attitude of the last generation of black leaders.
Addendum to my 8:35 comment:
and racists, too.
Floridan - Whatever man - just pointing out the end result of Democrat one party urban rule, and hoping that this is not the change that Obama hopes to bring to America. Maybe if the supposedly talented Obama would actually do the jobs he is elected to instead of immediately commencing his campaign for the next job up the ladder, places like Chicago would improve. Maybe if Detroit didn't elect a gangsta/pimp (his words) as its mayor, things would improve. The Dems have had a total lock on most of the cities for quite a while (NY being sort of an exception) - they own this 100%. If Bush is to blame for Iraq, then who is to blame for the far more violent American cities?
holdfast: " . . . then who is to blame for the far more violent American cities?"
I don't know; who is to blame for the two skinheads who wanted to assassinate Obama?
Maybe their parents? Be serious, both sides have crazies, but what were talking about is a systemic failure to govern over the course of decades, leading to cities little removed from Mogadishu. the Dems OWN the urban areas - how's that working out?
Anyway, happily those skinheads were scooped up while still in the planning stages, though I suppose if they were Muslims you'd be out protesting their innocence?
Thanks for posting this. I stay away from pop culture, so I had no idea who she was when I read news reports of the incident. What a dear, sweet girl. I had tears in my eyes when she was crying in the second video. Any death is a tragedy, but now that I know a little about her, it feels even more so.
According to the census, blacks make up 13.4% of the population, not 2%.
You may want to look into some of the other statistics you cite.
holdfast: "Anyway, happily those skinheads were scooped up while still in the planning stages, though I suppose if they were Muslims you'd be out protesting their innocence?"
Holdfast, my man, you didn't read the memo. Obama is a Muslim, so if the skinheads were Muslims, why would they want to kill him?
Unless Obama is a Shiite and the skinheads are Sunni . . .
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