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To: Mongo2116 who wrote (1049116)	1/18/2018 12:52:13 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576972

I think the cat got your tongue when Black activists who have been on the ground, in the front lines with OBanker during his time in Chicago and as president tell it like it is. You have no answer for OBanker's lies and hypocrisy because you've believed and swallowed those lies. To admit that fact makes you to be a sucker at best. “We cannot take the president’s word on the fact that they’re not gonna push African-Americans out with the Obama Presidential Center. There is no history that says their word is worth anything,” Brown said. “What we need is an in-writing community benefits agreement that says that people who live in those communities will benefit — not in a profiteering way, but jobs, investment in neighborhood elementary schools, transportation infrastructure. That is not a lot to ask. In the case of the Staples Center in Los Angeles, it kept people in their communities.” Brown was asked why he is so convinced that promises made by the nation’s first African-American president won’t be kept. “The situation will not be different because our African-American president endorsed school privatization — the closing of schools all across the United States. Our African-American aldermen have sat by while 50 schools closed in the city of Chicago. And it had a harmful effect on Chicago’s children,” Brown said. “Just because you are African-American does not mean that you walk with the values of people that live in those communities. We’re tired of people saying ‘I’m from the neighborhood.’ Who is your allegiance to?” Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th) could barely be heard over the protesters’ chants.