Chicago has Appeal for Injustices: “Mayoral Candidates Debate Needed for An Accounting”

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As Chicago citizens peer from behind their curtains, many contemplate the activities that would take them across gang-turf and into various battle-zones.

By Rev. Harold E. Bailey
Founder & President, Probation Challenge & The PCC Network

CHICAGO, IL – It is reported by the 2010 US Census data, that the city was home to about 2,695,598 people. The racial composition of Chicago (based on the results of the 2010 census) is 45% White (31.7% non-Hispanic White), 32.9% Black, and 5.5% Asian.

It’s bitterly noted that the middle-class tax payer, continues to bare the financial burden of holding the city of Chicago together! It’s also noted that the same working-class are taken for granted! These struggling, hard working people are forced to swallow harsh and empty promises from the mouths of those politicians who utter words of hopelessness! Yes, A Candidates Debate is Necessary!

Those of whom I speak are; the not-so-hidden-hands of those elected officials who sit at the helm of deceit, pretending to be about the matters of business! A political roll-call must come into play, as loud sounding ‘political  empty-wagons’  are exposed for a lack of credibility. Awful to say, but quite a few of our politicians have forgotten that they are employees who are hired by the tax payers!  Yes, A Candidates Debate is Necessary!

Voters, after decades of merely existing under the bondage of false pretenses, and the blatant lie that things are going to get better, have established that things are not going to merely change – for the sake of change, but they are tired of being fed an over-dose of misgivings as in Castrol without a chaser.

Just think a moment after paying revenue-taxes through the nose, that the tax payer still has to struggle and fight to travel the criminally insane streets of Chicago!  We have to openly talk about constructive change! Yes, A Candidates Debate is Necessary!

Through years of blinding trusting political candidates vying for the mayor’s position, many citizens settled for what was considered to be the lesser of the evil! However, in recent elections, it appears that the public settled for cunning  craftiness, with a mischievous pat on the head of a child!

Candidates, should considered without question, why there are so many closing of schools… especially in the black communities! Why there are the many  killings mostly in black communities! Why are there so many organized gang-conflicts! Why are gangs affiliates and their leadership having detrimental  conflicts over drugs and violence! And, let’s not forget the tons of unsettled issues involved in and with the Chicago Police Department and their conflict of counting crime figures. There are other acute issues too numerous to mention!

Do we dare to say that crime has invaded what was the safety of the tax payer’s home? Residents now shutter and duck as they hear a fire-cracker… presuming it to be gun-shots!

Chicago with its infamous reputation from coast-to-coast has regrettably  become a bitter financial battle-ground for crime and drugs! The battle over gang-turf has yet to be resolved by police or gang-leaders!  What use to be murder under the guides of darkness, is now an act of murder by day!

It’s a shame to admit, but the magnificent City of Chicago, on the shores of the beautiful Lake Michigan, is now addressed as The Murder Capitol of the World. Stats indicate that there are more killings in Chicago… than in Afghanistan!

Yes, A Candidates Debate is Necessary!

As the result of tax increases and criminal acts, many money making businesses have refused to bow to the elements of crime and the high cost of losing dollars, thusly, a noticeable number of business owners have pulled up stakes and abandoned the city’s business industry.

Yes, A Candidates Debate is Necessary!

Unbelievable data suggest that something is drastically wrong with leadership, when African American youth in the Chicago School System, have the highest high-school dropout rate – while having the highest drop-in rate, to become  candidates for the justice system. Blacks incarcerated are: 1.) High School Dropouts. 2.) From a One Parent Family. 3.) Socially deprived. Yes, A Candidates Debate is Necessary!

Racial injustices and divides have been permitted in the United States far too often… includes the City of Chicago! These measures often occur without  serious outcry from city administrators. There is too little transparency in local government. Much is intentionally concealed from the public! Yes, A Candidates Debate is Necessary!

Accountability for all injustices as it relates to the public should be publicly noted and aired by assigned leaders in the areas of: Criminal Justice or from the Office of the Mayor and other public offices which are supported and funded with revenue from the tax payers.

A large segment of the public rejects any notions that detrimental interferes in their lives be kept secret! Without any reservations, the Mayor’s Office, coupled with a segment of Aldermen/women, are mute about accountability!

A fair minded politician (off record) agreed that it’s pass the time for an open government (transparent) and that it should be done in association with an honest accountability to the public. Yes, A Mayoral Candidates Debate is Necessary!

Bailey: The Mayoral Candidates Debate

The Rev. Harold E. Bailey, president of the Probation Challenge organization, sponsor of the event said, “We honestly… without biasness, seek to awaken those that perhaps might be slumbering from the hardships that have been intentionally bestowed upon them by spiritually evil political forces!”  Bailey said, “These measures are coupled with the spiritual demonic rulers that have sought to suppress and depress a deprived body of striving people for freedom. I speak of the evil forces which in the 20th and this 21st Century, have worked with a large degree of success in the demise of the African-American and Hispanic youth. The circumventing of youth has been by a well generated map orchestrating crime, and permitting drugs into the communities along with a  fellow-companion which is none other than violence!

We cannot give a license to an elected mayor to render injustice! Bailey also stated that “naysayers and those seeking to disrupt should deposit their attitudes at the door.”

It is reported that over the last four decades, the United States has undertaken a national project of over criminalization that has put more than two million people behind bars at any given time, and brought the U.S. incarceration rate far beyond that of any other nation in the world. A closer look at which communities are most heavily impacted by mass incarceration reveals stark racial and ethnic disparities in U.S. incarceration rates in every region of the country.

Note: Nationally, according to the U.S. Census, Blacks are incarcerated five times more than Whites are, and Hispanics are nearly twice as likely to be incarcerated as Whites:

The racial and ethnic make-up of incarcerated populations is dramatically different from that of the U.S. as a whole.

Race/Ethnicity

% of US population

% of U.S.
incarcerated population

National incarceration rate
(per 100,000)

White (non-Hispanic)

64%

39%

450 per 100,000

Hispanic

16%

19%

831 per 100,000

Black

13%

40%

2,306 per 100,000

Social science research has time and again come to the robust conclusion that exposure to the criminal justice system has profound and intergenerational negative effects on communities that experience disproportionate  incarceration rates. It is imperative that we are able to measure the extent to which the criminal justice system disparately impacts our communities.

Until 2006, researchers, advocates, and policymakers could rely on state-level race and ethnicity incarceration rate data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics “Prisons and Jails at Midyear” series. Unfortunately, these state-level statistics have not been updated in eight years. This report endeavors to meet this data need to the extent possible with existing data by using 2010 U.S. Census counts to measure each state’s incarceration rates by race and ethnicity. This report accompanies a web database of graphs and statistics with incarceration rates by race and ethnicity data for all 50 U.S. states.

‘The Chicago Mayoral Candidates Debate’ will be held:

Saturday, November 1, 2014, 12 O’clock Noon

St. Paul Community Development Ministries, 4526 South Wabash

Chicago, Illinois

Free Parking Available. Elder Kevin Ford, Facilitator
For more information, Contact Rev. Harold E. Bailey at 773.978.3706.

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