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2016? YOU DON’T SAY.

It’s been awhile since we’ve put any social commentary up on the site, but with Sister Toldja coming back soon you shall not starve for long. In the meantime, I wanted to share something with the Blind I faithful that I put up on my personal blog addressing Chicago’s failed 2016 Olympic bid in juxtaposition with the murder of 16 year old Derrion Albert. I’m sure the intelligent base we have here at Blind I will rock with my words. Partake.

I suppose Chicago in 2016 was more important at the time than a 16 year old Chicagoan. Derrion Albert would have been 22 years old around the time the Olympic Games would take over the city of Chicago, supposedly joining the corners of one of the most segregated cities in the world through the welcoming of every nation participating into our “welcoming confines”. Every real Chicagoan, from Wrigleyville to Calumet City, K-Town to the Low End, knows that it’s a tall feat for us to get along with each other already, let alone millions of tourists envisioning a town totally different than the one they’d be stepping into for an Olympic Games. The grievances and issues Chicago faces are not the caliber which would be easily dealt with in a mere 6 years. Rather, a lifetime of struggle and resistance has existed in Chicago, with little ground gained since the years of the Civil Rights movement. People move to our city and stay in their comfort corner, with the majority never daring to go south of Roosevelt. Equally, the born-and-bred Chicagoan is one that rarely goes North of Roosevelt, unless it’s for work purposes or to inquire within City offices. When such a rift exists between Chicago itself, how could the members of the Chicago Olympic Committee actually go through with making this pitch to the IOC? How, with teenagers dying every day in the streets — not just through gang violence, but senseless acts like the one that took away the life of Derrion Albert — could they actively say that the world would be safe here?

You can read the entire post over at my blog now, but feel free to comment here if you wish and let us know your thoughts on this whole ordeal.

Tags: 2016 Olympics, Chicago, COMMENTARY, Derrion Albert

GEARING UP FOR A CIVIL WAR?

Thanks to my friend Lauren for sending me this. Supposedly these have been coming into the city of Chicago in the past week or so with some sort of unknown purpose. On assumption could lead you to believe that this is something to be used for the huge Obama rally taking place in Grant Park on November 4th to monitor the crowds, but that doesn’t explain why it’s completely in army camoflauge, not to mention BIG AS HELL. Which leads ME to believe that it’s really just in case
A.) Obama wins, McCain voters start wilin out, and need to be put down, or
B.) McCain wins, I get a few TVs from Best Buy without having to wait for the day after Thanksgiving, and they wanna catch me before I even hit the parking lot.

Either way, the shit is scary and also a clear sign of how real it could REALLY be 8 days from now. That is all.
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Tags: Army Trucks, COMMENTARY, McCain, OBAMA, politics