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An influential alderman warned Metra’s executive director on Thursday that “people are going to get hurt” if the commuter rail agency fails to bolster minority participation on a $133 million South Side railroad bridge known as the “Englewood Flyover.”
Ald. Anthony Beale (9th), chairman of the City Council’s Transportation Committee, did not explain who he believed would “get hurt” or who the perpetrators might be. But, he was clearly referring to civil disobedience or maybe even violence at the construction site.
“I’m trying to help you help yourself. When I say that, problems could arise. When you look at a community like Englewood [that] is challenged and you have over $1 billion of work coming through and there’s no people of color working on that project, I’m afraid people are going to get hurt,” Beale told Clifford during Thursday’s committee hearing.
“When you look at the make-up of the community — when you look at the unemployment rate … in that particular community, it’s probably 35, almost 40 percent. … To have a contract come like this in the African-American community with less than one percent minority participation is an insult.”
Back in the 70's I worked on the overhead railroad on LI. they got the same threat ,10% blacks or a lawsuit. So the company took inventory and had to lay off 30 blacks to meet the demand and told the workers the reason why. they were just making a statement and hired them back the next day with pay for the day they were layed off.sometimes your friends are your enemies. the employers were Horn const and Hendrickson Bros const. for those who want to prove me wrong.I was there and a union man at the time.
Gee sounds just like about 100 years ago when an alderman would say hire (insert one of the following) Jews, Italians, Irish, Poles, Greeks etc. "Or people will get hurt" .
The truth is Chicago is the one of the homes of ethnically based patronage politics and has been for over 100 years.
So now you want get made at a Black politician for doing the same thing white ones have been doing for over a century?
Gee sounds just like about 100 years ago when an alderman would say hire (insert one of the following) Jews, Italians, Irish, Poles, Greeks etc. "Or people will get hurt" .
The truth is Chicago is the one of the homes of ethnically based patronage politics and has been for over 100 years.
So now you want get made at a Black politician for doing the same thing white ones have been doing for over a century?
Gee I guess that would justify a black Hitler too in you way of thinking
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