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In reply to the discussion: Black caller on Big Eddie radio just went ballistic [View all]Hawkowl
(5,213 posts)Just greatly saddened. If you have spent any time in the ghettos of south and west Chicago, you might get a glimmer of the despair that is driving this woman's comments. I haven't been back in 10 years, but there are places there that are violent almost beyond imagining. Many of these residents live their entire lives in a 1 or 2 square mile radius. The police rarely get out of their cars because they are outgunned.
I remember touring Cabrini Green and the Robert Taylor homes for a semester. It is what is what turned me into a "radical leftist" today.
I can understand her twisted rage and yes, self loathing--but I can disagree with her without dismissing her.
Our country has largely failed these inner city people. But they are merely the canary in the coal mine, and corporate Amerika is hell bent on turning this entire country into a ghetto of self loathing slaves.