I'm a Black man and I had my choice of where to live in this city. When I first got here I didn't have an established credit history limiting my options, but as soon as I got crackin' and got a 20% bump in my anual take home I pretty much had my pick of where to stay.
Every public social setting I've been in has included Black people for the most part.
Art, this "blackballed existence" you're living is probably due to your own behavior to some degree. I mean, I'm trying to get along with you on here but you seem to be a really stubborn person that's hard to talk to. I can imagine that disposition of yours doesn't translate well into non-hood, non-backward settings.
nikka whut!!
first off where you live is nowhere compared to the cultured surroundings or locale where i grew up.
you don't even live in the nice duplex community up the street.
where i have friends and former female lovers from high school.
who own parking spots worth more than you make in a year.
you don't know shyt indepthly about my everyday contribution to the isp industry.
nor professionally as a senior account manager or closer.
nor socially whom i know or how i am professionally.
so kill the bullshyt,...
you were not even in the working class. when i cultivated chicago as a professional at chicago's oldest and largest isp.
plus your very job benefitted from me being in the isp business.
of which i was the account manager for the tribune and sun times.
on top of every media outlet and the darling of the chicago chamber of commerce section.
i personally outfitted your company with its first email and internet access.
from lowly top level exec to secretary with pop accounts and aliases.
i routinely setup derivative of chicago-tribune.com as a domain name and the dns pointers.
all the way from dial up's, html webpage to nt frontpage, to isdn and dedicated bandwidth.
like i said you are supremely ignorant and you assume.
assumptions are made for the ignorant and weak at heart.
i know you are inexperienced as a blackman.
especially professionally,....
including your naive nature in the chicago landscape.
so kill the noise b,...also, your little lakeview.
i grew up with a grotto and the private beach.
i can go out to the beach and smoke an L at sunrise and did for more than fifteen years.
my dad plays cards with aldermen. my neighbors growing up are congressmen and inventors of the nasdaq ticker.
plus i was an accomplished grassroots prodigy as a penciler in the chicago art community.
on top of being in museums before i was fifteen as a gallery37 year one employee at thirteen.
so kill you bullshyt,..you nothing of me, or about me like.
nor whom and what i have spearheaded and professionally risked and lost.
so kill your lil noise, and speak on what you know.
as it is evident you know very little as far as i am concerned.
art barr
Everyone is talking about the demographics of a city..and you stuck on this...theory that we act like Chicago is under Jim Crow laws keeping people from going where they please.
