Media blackout of black Chicago protesters
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Black Chicagoans from the south and west sides took their message to what they say is the source of the problem when they converged outside of a fundraiser held by Mayor Emanuel for Barack Obama and then marched to the studios of ABC News.
Their message, “let us work in our own community,” was made all the more poignant as the ABC News crew ignored the news event outside their very studious. Not one camera was sent to cover the news that was, literally, placed at their doorstep.
The protest, which took place Thursday evening, addressed these community members’ growing desperation as their wartorn neighborhoods are redeveloped by political cronies, evicting residents and shutting out local investors, and use union labor from outside the community to do the work. It’s a corrupt cycle of government “work” that takes advantage of the poor, evicting them, and then redeveloping the properties to benefit anyone but the community.
In the video below, community members who say they are desperate for jobs and investment, focus their protest against liberal leadership, including Obama and Emanuel, so-called community organizations like ACORN, and unions:
In an earlier video published by “Rebel Pundit” Jeremy Segal, a community member elaborated on the issue the inner-city black community has with unions: they won’t hire black people. Therefore any work going to their communities for building sites, etc., shuts them out of jobs. Segal writes:
According to Mark Carter of the Broke Party, a newly formed group of black grassroots activists fed up with the destruction and blight brought on their community by the liberal agenda, the protest was “about bringing attention to the demolition of homes in Chicago’s black communities on the west and south sides.” These buildings, Carter says, “can still be saved, but the city is tearing them down,” leaving property values and the community in the gutter.
Carter told Breitbart News they chose the Obama fundraiser as the starting point for the protest in order to send a direct message to Rahm Emanuel and Washington, D.C. that they will not be voting on Tuesday for those politicians who are allowing their homes and community to be demolished.
In an effort to bring even further attention to the ongoing issues of the black community in Chicago, the protest ended up outside of ABC 7 News’s local broadcast studio on State Street. This studio can be viewed from the street and sidewalk. When the protesters arrived, they used a bullhorn to announce themselves and called on weather reporter Jerry Taft, seen through the window, not to pretend they weren’t there, prompting a wave from Taft to the protesters.
As the new jobs numbers show black unemployment has risen to 14.3 percent, this community is desperate for work. They are desperate to find a new way outside of liberal leadership. And they are desperate for the media to stop the blackout on the real stories happening in the inner-city communities.
What can the inner-city black community do to get ABC News and other outlets to cover their plight, if bringing news to their very doorstep is not enough for the media to pay attention?
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/11/media-blackout-on-black-chicago-protesters-marching-against-obama/
I wish I could march with these guys....
Their message, “let us work in our own community,” was made all the more poignant as the ABC News crew ignored the news event outside their very studious. Not one camera was sent to cover the news that was, literally, placed at their doorstep.
The protest, which took place Thursday evening, addressed these community members’ growing desperation as their wartorn neighborhoods are redeveloped by political cronies, evicting residents and shutting out local investors, and use union labor from outside the community to do the work. It’s a corrupt cycle of government “work” that takes advantage of the poor, evicting them, and then redeveloping the properties to benefit anyone but the community.
In the video below, community members who say they are desperate for jobs and investment, focus their protest against liberal leadership, including Obama and Emanuel, so-called community organizations like ACORN, and unions:
In an earlier video published by “Rebel Pundit” Jeremy Segal, a community member elaborated on the issue the inner-city black community has with unions: they won’t hire black people. Therefore any work going to their communities for building sites, etc., shuts them out of jobs. Segal writes:
According to Mark Carter of the Broke Party, a newly formed group of black grassroots activists fed up with the destruction and blight brought on their community by the liberal agenda, the protest was “about bringing attention to the demolition of homes in Chicago’s black communities on the west and south sides.” These buildings, Carter says, “can still be saved, but the city is tearing them down,” leaving property values and the community in the gutter.
Carter told Breitbart News they chose the Obama fundraiser as the starting point for the protest in order to send a direct message to Rahm Emanuel and Washington, D.C. that they will not be voting on Tuesday for those politicians who are allowing their homes and community to be demolished.
In an effort to bring even further attention to the ongoing issues of the black community in Chicago, the protest ended up outside of ABC 7 News’s local broadcast studio on State Street. This studio can be viewed from the street and sidewalk. When the protesters arrived, they used a bullhorn to announce themselves and called on weather reporter Jerry Taft, seen through the window, not to pretend they weren’t there, prompting a wave from Taft to the protesters.
As the new jobs numbers show black unemployment has risen to 14.3 percent, this community is desperate for work. They are desperate to find a new way outside of liberal leadership. And they are desperate for the media to stop the blackout on the real stories happening in the inner-city communities.
What can the inner-city black community do to get ABC News and other outlets to cover their plight, if bringing news to their very doorstep is not enough for the media to pay attention?
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/11/media-blackout-on-black-chicago-protesters-marching-against-obama/
I wish I could march with these guys....
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
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Because you know what?
Nearly 1 MILLION members of the GLBT community and supporters marched on Washington earlier this year. And the media barely mentioned THAT, too. Fox "news" only talked about it for 20 seconds, not showing any video.
(although they cleared their schedule for an equal-sized gathering of the "Tea Party" a few weeks earlier.)
Yeah, it was a bit annoying... but the media decides what they're going to talk about and right now with an election looming in 2 days, a hurricane that took out one of the largest cities in the world, a candidate for president being charged with ethics violations (which is what Martha Stewart went to jail for, I might add) and a new Taylor Swift album... the media doesn't have time for "about 30 local residents" having a demonstration.
Sorry. You're going to have to move on to another invented outrage.
These people are looking for JOBS. They want to support there selves..they are tired of the violence ..I am sure they are not the only community the Democrat's have kept down.....They are asking for the basics to live. They are not asking for hand outs they want to live. Listen to them they are saying the community organizations are not helping them (Acorn), The community organizations have found a way to fleece the tax payers and then screw over the citizens they are supposed to be helping. The reason the media will not cover this is they don't want Americans to know what a shitty job our President did to help them.
After his meteoric ascent to the top of the American political arena in the country’s history, we are now in the midst of witnessing one of the most stunning collapses of any man ever to hold the office of President of the United States.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/26/Exodus-Inter-City-Blacks-Fleeing-Obama-Democrats
And you don't. I see.
This just baffles me. What do you mean by this? I mean... I support myself. Nobody has "kept me down" on that end but conservatives sure have done all they can to sabotage my marriage and life.
OK, and who's looking for a "hand out?" This line of attack is really offensive. The idea that people pay into a system that's supposed to be there for them when they need it but when they DO need it, they're told they're asking for "hand outs." Sorry... no. When people pay thousands for Unemployment Insurance and then need to collect... that's not a "hand out," that's "getting what they paid for."
ACORN doesn't exist anymore, thanks to a slanderous hatchet job by a right wing scam artist. But I digress. ACORN was a group that was there to represent the interests of these people... the poor... people without a voice or a huge budget to buy lobbyists... and they are no longer there to help. Don't blame a group you disbanded for not being there.
Ah. Got it. Yeah, there's a place for reliable information.
I like this quote from the comments section:
"One can only wonder what's been taking them so long? It has been Republicans (and ONLY Republicans) who've historically supported black America's aspirations for a piece of the American dream. Democrats...since the middle 60's... have TALKED a good game, but delivered precisely NOTHING of any substance to improve the lives of black American voters. The last time black Americans made substantial social and economic gains in this country was during the Reagan years when they were THE most upwardly-mobile group in the country (if one is prone to putting people into arbitrary "groups" in the first place.)"
All of a sudden, Republicans are the champions of African Americans. Republican tax policies are still on the books and have been for decades. But, the Bush tax cuts, "freedom" in his own words, were a continuation of the "starve the beast" and trickle-down programs. So, where are the jobs? 1.1 million jobs created under W. Bush...in 8 years. 22 million under Clinton in 8 years. Taxes are lower today, due to the stimulus (1/3 of which was tax breaks/tax incentives), the payroll tax cut, small business tax break/incentives. Where are the jobs?
ACORN still exist they just have a new name........
The full list of new ACORN groups is as follows:
* In California, ACORN is now the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (“ACCE”)
* In Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, ACORN is New England United for Justice.
* In New York, ACORN is New York Communities for Change.
* In Arkansas, ACORN has become Arkansas Community Organizations (“ACO”).
* In Louisiana, ACORN is “A Community Voice”.
* In Missouri, ACORN is Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (“MORE”).
* In Washington state, ACORN is Organization United for Reform (“OUR”) Washington.
* In Minnesota, ACORN is Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change.
* In Pennsylvania, ACORN has become the Pennsylvania Communities Organizing for Change (“PCOC”) and Pennsylvania Neighborhoods for Social Justice, Inc.
* In Texas, ACORN is now the Texas Organizing Project.
* ACORN Housing Corporation (“AHC”) has renamed itself Affordable Housing Centers of America, In
And our tax dollars paid for the name changes...
Would you like to back that up with a link to somewhere OTHER than Brietbart?