By Steve Rhodes
That’s easy. But thinking is hard. Plus: Rahm’s Kinky Campaign Kickoff; The Worst Reporter In Chicago; The Illusory Raise In Chicago’s Minimum Wage; Who Polices The Chicago Police? The Chicago Police.
SHOW NOTES
:00: Strawberry Rock Show.
:54: St. Vincent at the Chicago Theatre on Tuesday night.
* The Week In Chicago Rock.
* The Thanksgiving Week/Weekend In Chicago Rock.
2:14: John Kass Can Breathe.
6:04: Mean Jeans at Livewire on Wednesday, November 26.
7:30: John Kass Explains Race To America.
* The only time the fix isn’t in is when a grand jury isn’t indicting a white cop for shooting a black kid.
* In Chicago, the moral arc of the universe bends toward injustice.
* Mary Mitchell: In Fatal Incidents, Black Officers Don’t Receive The Same Benefit Of The Doubt.
John #Wrana almost 96 when killed by cop. Shot 5x w 12 gauge beanbag rounds at close range. Please don’t play race card politics w #WWIIvet
— John Kass (@John_Kass) December 7, 2014
* Isn’t Kass playing the race card every time he invokes Al Sharpton?
* Kass columns on John Wrana.
* Article 99.
* Ray Liotta! A young Ray Liotta.
* Darren Wilson’s testimony.
* Michael Brown’s hands were up.
* Witness No. 10.
* Thinking is hard, screaming is easy.
* Kass: It’s about taxes, not an illegal chokehold.
Got off the Red Line at 47th earlier today. Black guy on platform: “Loose squares!” I wanted to tell him, “You can get killed for that now.”
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 4, 2014
* NY Daily News Study: Broken Windows Policing Is Racist.
* Broken windows policing does not work.
* Rand Paul Blames Eric Garner’s Death On Cigarette Taxes.
* All About Al.
* The Outrage Is In Your Face. Also here at 52:10.
* Repeat after me: There is no such thing as black-on-black crime. Race is not a motive. What you are describing is poor-on-poor crime. It’s about proximity – and vulnerability. It would be nice if poor black criminals got on the bus and robbed people on Michigan Avenue, but that street is loaded with cops. Plus, the bus.
* Um, there are marches against violence in Chicago almost every week.
* Neil Steinberg explains race.
Why do conversations about race in America always sound like one hand clapping? Sun-Times http://t.co/jUd3Qv8PRN via @suntimes
— Neil Steinberg (@NeilSteinberg) July 29, 2013
Because white people are the ones with the problem.
* Chris Rock explains it all.
27:52: Song of the Moment: Fight The Power.
30:31: Kass vs. George W. Bush.
* Condi explains it all.
* We had a president who had to have this explained to him.
See also:
* Don Wycliff: A Police War On Black Men?
* Steve Chapman: Are Blacks To Blame For Cops’ Actions?
* Tribune editorial: Why Killings By Police Cause Public Suspicion.
* ProPublica: Deadly Force, In Black And White.
33:34: The Lemons at Livewire on the Wednesday of Thanksgiving week.
34:32: Drewrys. That’s good Drewrys.
* New! Gay!
* Crain’s: Drewrys Beer Returns.
34:52: Rahm’s Kinky Campaign Kickoff.
* William Dawson, not Dawes. William Dawes was one of the dudes who warned that the British were coming. I don’t know how I got that in my head.
* William Dawson’s black submachine.
* Cinespace movie studio vs. Woodlawn health clinic.
* Media needs a strategy.
* What would account for a change in polls toward Rahm? Reality remains the same.
* Chicago for some, not all.
* Fioretti is Italian and Polish.
51:29: The Gizmos at the Empty Bottle on the Saturday night of Thanksgiving week.
53:21: The Worst Reporter In Chicago.
* Follow along here.
1:13:58: Death To All at the Metro on Tuesday night of Thanksgiving week.
1:14:47: The Illusory Raise In Chicago’s Minimum Wage.
* Follow along here.
* Rahm moves Chicago forward into 1966.
* Rahm: “Washington wouldn’t do it. Springfield couldn’t do it. But here in Chicago, we did it.”
That’s because Washington and Springfield have two-party systems.
Which reminds me, where was Rahm when he was Obama’s chief of staff and the Democrats controlled Congress?
* Rahm’s Evolving Position On The Minimum Wage.
* “After 2019, yearly increases would be pegged to the local consumer price index, with a limit of 2.5 percent, if the unemployment rate stays below 8.5 percent.” This needs to be examined more closely. Why not do the same for aldermen?
1:22:15: Who Polices The Chicago Police? The Chicago Police.
* The [Friday] Papers.
* The case of Cmdr. Glenn Evans.
* Progress is when cops get less crazy.
1:33:06: Wiz Khalifa at the House of Blues on Monday night of thanksgiving week.
STOPPAGE: 35:08
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Posted on December 8, 2014