Lori Lightfoot Understands

 

For the African American (Black) critics of Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot understands African Americans in Chicago are a declining and unorganized group of people. Like Mayor Daley and Mayor Emanuel Mayor Lightfoot needs a certain percentage of the Black vote. Even if Mayor Lightfoot becomes a one term mayor like Jane Byrne, African Americans will still be a declining and unorganized group of people.

Marc Sims

Chicago 

marcsimschicago@gmail.com

Wandering In A Political Wilderness 

https://marcsims.blogspot.com/2013/06/wandering-in-political-wilderness.html

 

Once one of the biggest urban enclaves of African-Americans, peaking at 1.2 million in the 80s, Chicago’s black population is projected to drop to 665,000 by 2030, according to the Urban Institute. 

https://www.chicagoreporter.com/exodus-examines-rise-and-fall-of-chicagos-black-population

 

No Crime Neighborhoods

 

The political and civic leaders in Chicago IL really don’t believe it is possible to develop crime free low income neighborhoods.  If they did not one CPS student would struggle in school year after year, graduating not prepared for post secondary education. If Chicago’s Political and civic leaders want to stop the crime they would ask the federal government to develop a targeted universal basic income program for families that need financial support.  If a pandemic, protests, and looting has not changed the mindset of institutional leaders in Chicago, what will?

 

Marc Sims

Chicago

 

Institutions tend to preserve the problem they were created to solve.
Clay Shirky

 

When children struggle with reading early in life it can translate into big problems later on, but it really does not have to be this way.

Discovering the Science of Reading: A Reporter’s Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO4_S26gOkQ

 

Why the U.S. Should Provide Universal Basic Income

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnWsPIgl8_s