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On 13 Feb 2022, Lefty Lundquist <lefty_lundquist@ggmail.com> posted some news:suc3l4$4ev$2@dont-email.me:

Yeah, yeah. You wimpy stupid black Democrats talk tough for one
election then you go right back to the Democrats who are fucking you
in the ass.

It started as a rumbling in Chicago's predominantly black neighborhoods
on the city's south and west sides. Black Chicagoans are watching the
city spending tens of millions of dollars on newly arrived migrants
after years of unmet promises from the Chicago political establishment
to black people in the poorest neighborhoods.

“All these people, I have supported every one of them,” Cata Truss, a 57-year-old mother on the West Side, says about Mayor Brandon Johnson
and his progressive allies.

“I was like, ‘Are you freaking kidding me,'" Truss added. She had just
found out that the city was going to take over Amundsen Park — what she
calls “the crown jewel of the community” — for use by migrants.

Chicago prides itself on being a "welcoming city" — just not to black residents.

According to The Free Press, "Chicago has greeted nearly 35,000 new
arrivals with resources like laundry services, mental health screenings,
and $15,000 in rental support per person — all funds that Truss says
could’ve gone a long way in Amundsen Park in Chicago’s Austin
neighborhood, where nearly 28 percent of residents live below the
poverty line."

Black Chicagoans are no longer trying to hide their resentment. They
don't necessarily resent the migrants, although it's hard not to when
the city is spending extravagantly on them. They resent the black
Democratic establishment for allowing the situation to reach a crisis
point with little or no input from neighborhood groups, who are the
backbone of the Democratic Party in the city.

The city of Chicago is now facing seven lawsuits, at least three of them
filed by people of color, all bound by a concern that their leaders
would rather serve the migrants than their own vulnerable citizens.
Truss is now represented by Deidre Baumann, a Democratic civil rights
attorney working on a pro bono basis, along with her four co-plaintiffs,
all of whom are black. A second suit, in the South Side, has two black plaintiffs. A third, in Chicago’s Brighton Park, is led by five Hispanic residents and one Asian American.

Although critics often claim that only “extreme MAGA Republicans” oppose
the record influx of migrants into the U.S., if you visit Chicago like I
did earlier this month, you’ll see that these plaintiffs are not
motivated by bigotry. Instead, most of them are minorities who feel
their communities are getting the short end of the stick.

That's not the half of it. One of the most Democratic cities in the
nation is seeing its black politicians booed by angry residents in neighborhoods. The bottom line is that the crisis is leading a sizable
number of black Chicagoans to consider sitting the 2024 election out or
even voting for Donald Trump.

This wouldn't affect the presidential race. Illinois is going to go for
Biden no matter what happens with the vote in Chicago, but in statewide
races, a falloff in support from black voters could lead to some upsets.

And it's not just Chicago seeing black support dwindle for Democrats.

The crisis is leading many Democrats to turn on their own party. I spoke
with 18 Democrats in Chicago, including a restorative justice advocate,
a former Obama intern, and an exonerated felon, who all told me they’re considering sitting out the election this year rather than vote for
President Joe Biden. A couple said they’re even thinking of voting for
Donald Trump. It’s a phenomenon that’s being reflected in national
polls, with Trump on track to win nearly a quarter of the black vote in
key battleground states. That means that a fifth of black voters, who
voted for Biden by a margin of 92 percent in 2020, could turn their back
on the president.

If Donald Trump gets even 15% of the black vote, he wins in a landslide.

Black leaders in Chicago have been trying to shift the focus away from
the migrant crisis as Biden's problem to labeling it a crisis that Gov.
Greg Abbott (R-Texas) created. That may have worked at first, but no
longer.

“What the Democratic Party doesn’t want black people to hear is that
this is a Biden policy,” says J. Darnell Jones, another plaintiff suing
the city. “Biden is allowing the borders to remain open.”

This resentment that Chicago's black community manifested is not a
permanent realignment — yet. But no voter likes to be taken for granted,
and black Democrats are reaching a boiling point.

https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/01/23/black-chicago-democrats-in-open- revolt-against-the-party-over-migrant-crisis-n4925756

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