tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12126432.post5093669363254123850..comments2023-10-29T03:07:29.951-05:00Comments on left cheek: Guns and Race in Chicagojasdyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492591447246532970noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12126432.post-73602817040081904982013-02-07T17:47:36.542-06:002013-02-07T17:47:36.542-06:00I agree with quite a bit of what you wrote (from t...I agree with quite a bit of what you wrote (from the whites controlling the wealth of the city, and concentrated in "their" areas, to the lax gun laws across the country that studies show allow the the guns to easily be brought HERE).<br /><br />I wouldn't worry about the whites who spout 2nd Amendment rights...they are non-participants here, and really secondary problems.<br /><br />We have white liberals who choose to not live in Brown Chicago, let alone help the areas..tehy don't live, shop, eat or worship here. 9and, it seems, the youth of Color who have been "successful", but have then chosen to move out of their neighborhoods..and in Chatham, that has been a GENERATION of that happening!<br /><br />Also, living in Chatham and lsitening to Black talk Radio...there are MANY African-Americans who are 2nd Amendment type of people. Even the very socially & economically liberal Governor or Talk Radio, WVON's Cliff Kelley, has sounded pro-gun on the air. And certainly many people in my community's meetings have exressed such a sentiment.<br /><br />I just want through that out to clarify, and perhaps complicate things -- that the problem is largely than the loudest and clearly out of place voices that we pay attention to .JP Paulushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13860554217847927753noreply@blogger.com