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Marc Sims Host Just A Few Questions Marc Sims was born, raised, and resides in the city of Chicago Illinois. https://open.spotify.com/show/3OvsD9A8ESUfKS20UMTHyV marcsimschicago@gmail.com

Sunday, August 14, 2022

Chicago Is A Dangerous City




 

Chicago Is A Dangerous City: Peter Cunningham

Just A Few Questions Podcast

Marc Sims talks with Peter Cunningham about ending Chicago's dangerous city narrative.

Peter Cunningham is a Chicago-based writer specializing in politics, government,  education, and life.

Former Obama administration Assistant Secretary of Education.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chicago-is-a-dangerous-city-peter-cunningham/id1515521382?i=1000575887278

 

Marc Sims

Chicago 

 

I agree with Dr. Carl Bell; Black people (African Americans) are very relational, as opposed to being transactional. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdt6ByGLhY0

 

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson defines the four classes of black America




NPR: Eugene Robinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist, in a new book about the increasing disconnect between America's African-American communities.

 

WBEZ: Class segregation among blacks is higher among both whites and Latinos. So when you measure, as you mentioned, the evenness of the classes within the predominantly black, Latino or white neighborhoods, you find that there is greater pull-away between poor blacks and upper income blacks than there is between poor whites and upper income whites and poor Latinos and upper income Latinos.

Mary Pattillo, the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Northwestern University.

https://www.wbez.org/shows/curious-city/where-are-chicagos-poor-white-neighborhoods/37e96521-d730-43b8-b645-633aab318314

 

A Chicago Booster: Professor Mary Pattillo

Just A Few Questions Podcast

Marc Sims talks with Northwestern University Professor Mary Pattillo about remaining Black on the block.

https://anchor.fm/marc-sims/episodes/A-Chicago-Booster-Mary-Pattillo-e144qn9

  


Why would they want to come back here?  Why would they want to come live here and bring their family here?  Why would they want to raise children here?

Hon. Kurt Summers, Former Treasurer, City of Chicago

https://youtu.be/28QUnndoc5E?t=960