Al Sharpton's Chicago
Town Hall Erupts into
Revolt Against Machine Politics
by Rebel Pundit 21 Dec 2013, 3:45
PM PDT
On Thursday, a town hall meeting
hosted by Al Sharpton and the National Action Network to address gun violence
exploded into a revolt against “Chicago
Machine” politics, Mayor Rahm
Emanuel, and the aldermen in City Hall, with panel and audience members
calling to vote out their elected officials.
One 82-year-old preacher even
called for “Tea Party” style meetings in some of Chicago’s
south side communities such as Altgeld
Gardens and Trumbull Park.
“This was a historic event,” Paul
McKinley of V.O.T.E. (Voices of the Ex-Offender) and former 2nd Congressional
District GOP nominee to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr. told Breitbart News. “Not
because of Al Sharpton coming to town,” he continued. “This was first time
since electing Mayor Harold Washington in the eighties that all of these
grassroots groups and community organizers have come together under one roof to
talk about the problems plaguing our community.”
While the stated goal for Sharpton
was to bring the many different groups together to discuss solutions to the
city’s violence epidemic, he may not have gotten the types of responses he was
looking for. Calls for more gun control laws and getting guns off the streets
were nonexistent and not mentioned by residents throughout the session.
Instead, attendees offered
solutions addressing the problems facing their community as a whole rather than
just taking on “gun violence” itself. Audience members addressed the need for
jobs and solving the foreclosure crisis plaguing Chicago’s south and west sides. Perhaps the
loudest message—and one that Reverend Al or the Chicago media have yet to
report on—echoed by several different people in attendance as well as panel
members was that it is time for the black community to start voting
differently.
“The manner in which we have been
voting needs to change,” Wendy Pearson, an activist against Chicago school closings, told the room. “I’m
here to say to you that we have been trained to vote in a specific manner… we
need to start looking at the manner in which our elected officials have been
voting… if they have not voted in a manner that is beneficial to you, yours,
and your community, then you need to start voting them out.”
McKinley told the room, “Stop
blaming just anybody for the violence in the city of Chicago. Blame the right people, not just
white people, but the right people. Because it’s not just white folks a part of
this, but it is on the fifth floor. The fifth floor took your schools, the
fifth floor just took your jobs that he said that he gave to the ex-offender…
and every single alderman was a part of this criminal process.”
McKinley called on President Obama
to help the grassroots by discontinuing aid and government grants that go
through Chicago’s
political machine to “name-brand-blue-ribbon-negro-organizations” such as the NAACP and Urban League. McKinley told Breitbart News those groups “are
poverty pimps, and are part of the problem and not the solution.”
Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Rahm
I. Emanuel was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration, is the Chicago (IL) mayor, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Note: NRA-ILA (Rahm Emanuel’s Gun Control History)
Richard
M. Daley was the Chicago (IL) mayor,
Michelle Obama was his staffer, Valerie B. Jarrett was his deputy chief
of staff, and is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
NRA-ILA (Richard M. Daley’s Gun Control History)
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP, and Mayor Richard M. Daley’s
staffer.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr, was Mayor Richard
M. Daley’s deputy chief of staff, and a director at the Chicago Urban League.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a senior
director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), a senior counsel for Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund, and the Committee for Economic Development.
George Soros
is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Boeing Company.
William
M. Daley was a director at the Boeing
Company, the chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration, is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and Mayor Richard M. Daley’s brother.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP at the Boeing Company, and
a VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Donna
S. Morea was the EVP for the CGI
Group Inc., and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
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