The Chicago Protesting Thread

Samori Toure

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All of the housing is beautiful in Chicago :yeshrug:

even in the deepest hoods of Chicago you have beautiful brick homes with hardwood floors and large rooms. Lot of old heads still take care of the property too.

Yeah I grew up there and lived there until 4 years ago. There is a lot of really nice architecture in Chicago. Even in the hood.
 

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they better get they asses out of dodge then

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I’m still following up with a few. I moved out a few years ago but I still stop by regularly to say hi to the staff (phoney kick it to secure my free parking) and kick it for an hour or so. Hitting people up and letting them know I’m downstairs and come fukk with the kid. When I first saw the tweet in another thread last night, I called to see if it was true and my guy said yeah, they’d been trying to rush the lobby a few times.
 

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Chicago does have more extremes due to direct city disinvestment, but what's in the middle, pound for pound, aesthetically, Toronto can't compare. My mom's family came to Chicago from Ontario so I'm in Toronto to visit every few years. The thing about Chicago is that, more than any other city, including NYC, Chicago plans with "asthetics" first in mind. Spacing, presentation, cohesiveness, etc. "Asthetics" historically had been a "finishing touch" for most other cities. Its apparent Toronto falls undee that as well.


The almost downtown feel, in some of the surrounding neighborhoods to downtown, is something to consider as well..
 

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It doesn't matter what their motivations are. They are instituting a fundamental shift in our social order with this uprising, and I find it pathetic that black people, after seeing the repeated murder of our people by these death squads, had to rely on white communist agitators to spark a revolution. Either way, we're not returning to the status quo after this, so I'm grateful to these anarchists for what they've done.

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Nah

The only way Black people would get anywhere with protesting is with different tactics

And I was about to say there ain't activists like King or Malcolm X any more but there are...they're just not getting the shine and busy doing the work
 

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They were abolitionist who helped on the underground railroad. Of course elite law school cacs wouldn't know that Ontario was the terminus on the railroad and many communities of ados runaway slaves that settled there are there now. :mjpls:

Assumed you were one of those Caribbean or African Canadian immigrants, not Ados who escaped to Canada.
 

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Remember saying this on a Toronto site and they got pissed. Chicago downtown is beautiful and the shyt was burned down in the early 1900s. Toronto is a nice city too, but lacks character IMO.

Because they built all those high rise condos along the waterfront blocking the skyline...then started randomly building high rises uptown,the whole skyline looks dumb now...
 
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I’m not with the burning and trashing of the plaza where the Trump is. Those are homes, families in there. It’s not just the Trump building they are doing, it’s the Renelle and River Plaza buildings that share that corner lot with the Trump and they are getting fukked up too. It isn’t an office building. Those are homes. I dunno but fukk Trump tho
 
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