Following up on recent discussions concerning “Black Crime” and President Obama, I present the following article by Manhattan Institute fellow Heather MacDonald. Here’s her opening remarks:
Chicago’s Real Crime Story by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal Winter 2010
“Barack Obama has exploited his youthful stint as a Chicago community organizer at every stage of his political career. As someone who had worked for grassroots “change,” he said, he was a different kind of politician, one who could translate people’s hopes into reality. The media lapped up this conceit, presenting Obama’s organizing experience as a meaningful qualification for the Oval Office.
This past September, a cell-phone video of Chicago students beating a fellow teen to death coursed over the airwaves and across the Internet. None of the news outlets that had admiringly reported on Obama’s community-organizing efforts mentioned that the beating involved students from the very South Side neighborhoods where the president had once worked. Obama’s connection to the area was suddenly lost in the mists of time.”
Here’s the link to the rest of the piece:
http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_1_chicago-crime.html
OK, so the floor is open. Let ‘er rip…
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The Obsidian
