Chicago Tribune: When Bronwyn Nichols Lodato began pushing to prevent a portion of Chicago’s Midway Plaisance from being developed into a parking garage by the Obama Foundation, she never expected to be criticized as anti-black.
After all, she is an African-American woman who has lived in Hyde Park for more than a decade and is sensitive to both the city’s racial tensions and the needs of her neighbors.
“All I wanted to do was make sure my kids could play with no garage in their park,” she said. “I have three young children and we live in a condo and the Midway is our yard. My story is simply, how can we keep the park so our kids could play there?”
But soon after taking up her campaign, Lodato, who believes the South Side deserves what she calls “jewels” of open space, found herself under fire by people who believed that the garage would foster business in the area. Some accused her of siding with her well-off white neighbors and taking a stance that hurts the struggling communities around hers.
The criticism stung.
“As a black person, speaking my truth about preserving green space, (I was) told that’s not the most important thing to focus on,” Lodato said.
The Obama Foundation’s plans to build the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park have sparked a complicated, and at times emotional, conversation about race, class, segregation, privilege and power on the South Side. READ MORE
When he was Preezy, did he ever solve a single conflict? Any crisis he let go to waste? I’m racking my brain and coming up empty. “Sparking a conversation”? Please. All he’s ever done is set people against each other.
Chooot! Chooootem!!!!!!! 😉
A parking garage is going to encourage business in the area? What kind of “business” is conducted in a parking garage?
“Bronwyn” is a black woman? Must have some Welsh in her family tree somewhere. Literally, the name means “white breasted”. Just throwing out a fun fact.
I already have an Obama library. You’re welcome to visit anytime. Please flush and put seat down when done
Job jonnies are very unsightly
I love it when the left eats itself.
Who wants to live/work next to a giant gay bath house?! :yuck:
Dig a big hole, use it as a land fill. The smell would be about the same. Neighbors could get a glimpse or two of Mooch rooting around looking for clothes.
Obama, the entitled, also wants to take the park that was designed by Olmstead and is a historic site. Olmstead also designed Central Park.
Hmmm, Fifty Shades of Black. Sounds like a movie.
The DEMS needs the criminals illegal aliens because the black are getting out of the plantation.