Wow. They sound super racist.
Campus Reform:More than 150 University of Chicago professors and lecturers are protesting a “socially regressive” plan to build an “Obama Center” next to the school’s campus.
In a letter signed by scores of faculty members, the professors argue that while they broadly “support the idea of establishing the Obama Center in our neighborhood,” they also share many concerns expressed by local community groups about the existing proposal.
“First, there are concerns that the Obama Center as currently planned will not provide the promised development or economic benefits to the neighborhood,” the letter explains. “Because the current plans place the Center next to the Museum of Science and Industry and across the street from the University of Chicago campus, there is no available adjacent land in which to start a new business, set up a new café or restaurant, [or] bring another cultural center to the neighborhood.”
Another concern stems from the plan to hand over large portions of historic public parks to the Obama Foundation for use in building the venue.
“At a time of increasing complexity and pressure in urban life, Chicago should be dedicated to preserving our public parks as open areas for relaxation and play for all its citizens,” the letter states, criticizing the slated intrusion into the Midway Plaisance and Jackson parks.
You mean there isn’t another runway somewhere in Chicongo that can be torn up in the dead of night to create more space?
Make one toilet at the nearest Denny’s unisex and utilize the remaining toilet for the library.
Your welcome.
Chickens coming home to roost, University of Chicago. Adjunct Professors gonna add junk. You’d better get your community organized before the Obama Post-Presidency Detention Center steamrolls you.
“We urge the Obama Foundation to explore alternative sites on the South Side that could be developed with more economic benefits, better public transportation, and less cost to taxpayers.”
LOL. Or the westside, maybe Austin would be a good choice.
“there is no available adjacent land in which to start a new business…”
Such as?
An ice cream shop? A crossdresser’s boutique? A barf bag retailer? An exclusive twinks-only bathhouse and weight-lifting gym?
Obama Center?
Really?
Other than a Porta-Potty, what do you need?
Just enough room for two fags to bugger each other with all the ambiance of a Chicago bath-house.
BAM! DONE!
The Profs can quit whining and get in line …
izlamo delenda est …
But the South Side of Chicago is the baddest part of town.
Translation: The Obama Library will be a destination for a certain demographic from the South Side and from Gary, Indiana, and we don’t want this where we live and work.
Build that shit house in Garfield Park where it belongs!
I don’t think there will be a BHO library after Trump and Sessions are done with him.
Is it still gentrifcation when a half-white person moves into your neighborhood?
“First, there are concerns that the Obama Center as currently planned will not provide the promised development or economic benefits to the neighborhood,”
Well, it’s not the first time obama failed to deliver on a promise.
Great ! With enough Obstackles thrown in its path, hopefully the Obama Center (they gave up on calling it a Library) will disappear, just like his presidency.
And why should the current Chicago parks just ‘hand over’ their acreage to Obumbles’ nefarious schemes?
NIMBY effect in action.
Mans Country presidential library.
IOW, we don’t want your kind in our ‘hood.
Don’t they have an entire island in Hawai’i that doesn’t allow black people? How about there?
The main building is a fortress with no windows. Chicongo is bad, but maybe Obowelmovement knows it’s going to get worse. Also, there will be NO paper records. Everything will be digital. In that case, there’s no need for a “library”, a single server can handle ALL of the records. It can even be housed in an old lady’s bathroom and be run by a couple Paki “IT” guys.
Actually an Obama center that fails to provide development and economic benefits would be a perfect image of him & his presidency. Why not build a center that demonstrates the reality of Obama?