Get ready to say ByeBye to more Blacks Citizens in Chicago [Chicago Ward Remap 2011]

[Chitownheadbusa]

While some Blacks in Chicago sit on their hands and worry about superficial BS, Mexicans and Whites are teaming up to get rid of our asses. Even though Chicago is the most segregated city in North America, the city was stil mostly Black for many many years. But due to Black folks not willing to fight, illegals Hispanics and the new "White flight"..things are changing.


Wanna get involved?
...contact your Alderman/Alderwoman

Most laws, etc dont get passed in this city unless the Aldermen/Alderwomen vote for them...keep that in mind...especially when you speak about corrupt Mayors, Governors, etc.

Chicago Aldermen Skirmish Over New Ward Map


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Though Chicago aldermen set out Thursday evening to approve a ward remap that increases Hispanic representation on the City Council, they ultimately failed to arrive at a plan approved by at least 41 of the council's members -- and head back to work Friday.

The remap is intended to reflect the city's changing demographics outlined in the latest Census -- specifically that the city's Latino population is increasing, while its white and black populations are decreasing. As WGN reports, the objective is to morph two of the city's black-majority wards and one of the city's white-majority wards into Hispanic-majority wards.

The plan, being lead by the council's powerful rules committee head Ald. Richard Mell (33rd), has specifically targeted the districts currently represented by three aldermen -- Ald. Toni Foulkes (15th), Ald. Willie Cochran (20h) and Ald. Nick Sposato (36th) -- as Fox Chicago reports. Ald. JoAnn Thompson (16th) also stands in danger of being drawn into the same South Side ward as Foulkes in one proposed map, according to the Chicago Tribune.

It appears the three will not be backing down without a fight, which, if not sorted out Friday, could drag out into a referendum or even a court case. Either way, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has said he will not intervene in the matter and is confident the council will arrive at a consensus, according to CBS Chicago.

"When I'm required to do something, I will," the mayor commented on the matter Thursday, according to the Tribune. "I don't need to be the referee on that process."

Sposato told ABC Chicago he was "born and raised" in the Montclare neighborhood included in his ward, but now "it's all being taken away from me" in a remap plan which, as proposed, would trim away 80 percent of the neighborhood he's long called home.

If the City Council were truly representative of Chicago's demographics, it would have 15 Latino representatives, rather than either the seven it currently has or the 10 it could have if the remap proceeds as planned.


Over the past decade, the city's Latino population has grown by 25,000, while the city's overall population dropped by 200,000.

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(fyi....that 200,000 is mostly Blacks that moved to the burbs so they could escape the unruly Project Rejects that infiltrated their neighborhoods and also former Project residencies that got section 8 vouchers and moved out the city)




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/chicago-aldermen-skirmish_n_1125695.html




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[SPECTRE1]

Re: Get ready to say ByeBye to more Blacks Citizens in Chicago [Chicago Ward Remap 20

The great migration, blacks leaving the South escaping Jim Crow for opportunity up North.

Historically, I never understood segregation, taking the time to have separate schools, bathrooms, water fountains, businesses, buses, restaurants, and to block voting rights!!! What were they thinking in their minds back then.

I mean damn if people wanted to be that separatist, why didn't they just parcel out land to blacks to form a country, isn't that the next logical step? Problem solved.

Especially with all the tactics being utilized today to block voting, lock you up, and other crap. Some parts of the country, a person can feel like a Palestinian in Israel.

 

[Chitownheadbusa]

Re: Get ready to say ByeBye to more Blacks Citizens in Chicago [Chicago Ward Remap 20

Aldermen OK Chicago ward remap by enough votes to avoid referendum



Chicago voters will not have to choose between rival versions of a new ward map when they go to the polls March 20 — but whether a costly legal challenge can be avoided is still an open question.

Without a vote to spare, the City Council on Thursday approved a new Chicago ward map that includes 13 Hispanic wards and two Hispanic “influence” wards” to reward Hispanics for their 25,218-person population gain in the 2010 U.S. Census.

The new map that endangers roughly a half-dozen incumbents also includes 18 black wards, down from 19 currently, despite a 181,453-person drop in Chicago’s black population.

It takes 41 aldermen to avoid a referendum that could set the stage for a lawsuit.

The final vote was 41 to 8. No votes were cast by Aldermen Bob Fioretti (2nd); Roderick Sawyer (6th); Michael Zalewski (23rd); Michael Chandler (24th); Scott Waguespack (32nd); Nick Sposato (36th); Rey Colon (35th) and John Arena (45th).

“A challenge and a referendum costs money. The city can’t afford $20 million for a lawsuit. Hopefully, this map will avoid that,” said Rules Committee Chairman Richard Mell (33rd), who nearly came to blows with Ald. Carrie Austin (34th) at one point during the deliberations.

Ald. Pat O’Connor (40th), Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s City Council floor leader, acknowledged that Thursday’s vote is no guarantee against a lawsuit.

“Nobody’s certain that wouldn’t happen. People file lawsuits all the time. All we could do is strive to have the largest number of City Council members available so that we would not have a referendum — and that’s what we’ve achieved,” O’Connor said.

Fioretti and Sposato, their political survival threatened, tried to “postpone the inevitable,” as Sposato put it, by exercising the right of any two aldermen to delay consideration of any matter for one meeting.

But Emanuel’s forces used an obscure parliamentary maneuver to prevent the delay — by ruling that matters directly introduced to the City Council can’t be postponed.

They were that determined to put the divisive issue to rest and to prevent the hard-fought deal from unraveling.

“This has been hundreds and hundreds of hours worth of meetings and hundreds and hundreds of times staring at a computer and drawing boundaries. This isn’t a rush. This has taken longer than the Sistine Chapel,” O’Connor said.

When Fioretti was informed of the maneuver, he started yelling at an Emanuel operative.

“When somebody comes with a lawsuit, that may be a count. … Whoever challenges it will probably win under an equal protection count,” said Fioretti, who finds himself living in the newly-drawn 28th Ward because of a bizarre, snake-like configuration that pushed the 2nd Ward as far north as Wrightwood to reunite Lincoln Park.

Sposato — whose ward would go from 32 percent Hispanic to 61.2 percent — blasted his colleagues for using heavy-handed tactics to ram through a map that the public has not seen and was still being tweaked hours before the vote.

“What is their rush? You have three years [until] the next election,” Sposato said.

“There’s no doubt in my mind the city is gonna get sued over this and we’re gonna have to be spending money that we don’t have to defend a lawsuit. That’s what I’m mad about.”

The current City Council is comprised of 22 whites, 19 blacks, eight Latinos and Ald. Ameya Pawar (47th), who is of Indian descent.

Hispanic majority wards are at least 60 percent Latino, influence wards 35 percent to 40 percent, and super-majority wards at least 65 percent.

The political version of musical chairs could leave several incumbent aldermen without seats when the music stops.

Ald. Toni Foulkes (15th) would be remapped out of her South Side Ward, which would go from majority black to 68.3 percent Hispanic. That would either force her to move and run for re-election in a majority Hispanic ward or stay where she is and challenge fellow incumbent black Ald. Joann Thompson (16th).

Ald. Michael Zalewski’s 23rd ward would go from 54 percent Hispanic to more than 60 percent.

Zalewski remains adamantly opposed to the changes, but he did not join in the failed attempt to put off Thursday’s vote.

“If you’re gonna have your tooth pulled, let’s get it done today and not wait until tomorrow,” he said.

Moments after the odyssey ended, Emanuel hailed the vote as a political “milestone” — but not as important as another one.

“Last night we had a milestone. It was the first time in about a year where the city did not have a single shooting or a single homicide,” the mayor said, as aldermen applauded.

“And while the political boundaries are important, I don’t think there’s a person in this room [who] doesn’t know that what happened last night into the wee hours of the morning was not more important to this city’s future.”


http://www.suntimes.com/news/politi...emap-by-enough-votes-to-avoid-referendum.html

 

[han2.0]

Re: Get ready to say ByeBye to more Blacks Citizens in Chicago [Chicago Ward Remap 20

bump

 

[thoughtone]

Re: Get ready to say ByeBye to more Blacks Citizens in Chicago [Chicago Ward Remap 20

This is not unique to Chicago Atlanta is being redistricted to be less "Black" and more white and Latin. The destruction of housing projects and Black folk living closer to their jobs, which are not centrally located as they once were, means Black density in cities are not once they once were.

 

[Greed]

Re: Get ready to say ByeBye to more Blacks Citizens in Chicago [Chicago Ward Remap 20

I'm all for it. Break up the status quo no matter what. The odds of the Chicago becoming worse than it already is has to be extremely low.