No money for schools in poor minority neighborhoods, and yet somehow Rahm Emanuel manages to scrape up over $100 millions to build a new basketball arena. Nice. Real nice.
If you want to understand why Mayor Rahm has approval ratings to rival Rush Limbaugh in Harlem, you can point to priorities like these. The school closures are taking place entirely in communities of color while the city’s elite feed with crazed abandon at an increasingly sapped trough. As Karen Lewis, the Chicago Teachers Union chief who led a victorious strike last September fueled by rage at Mayor Rahm, said, “When the mayor claims he is facing unprecedented budget problems, he has a choice to make. He is choosing between putting our communities first or continuing the practice of handing out millions of public dollars to private operators, even in the toughest of times.”
And yet they are re-elected. Wake up people!
Posted by: The Nag | May 27, 2013 at 05:04 PM