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The Rahmbomb recently enlisted the head of the Nation of Islam to help police the streets since apparently CPD ain't up to the task. This is the same Rahm who is blocking Chick-fil-A from expanding in Chicago because of their anti-gay marriage stance. He claims that their CEO's position is against Chicago values, which in turn means that Chicago values are pro gay marriage.
Fine by me, I support gay marriage 100%. But here's where it gets comical, like some stuff you'd expect in a satire about politics but not in real life. Alas, Chicago is a living satire.
Louis Farrakhan and the NOI adamantly oppose gay marriage on the same religious grounds as Chick-fil-A's CEO, albeit through their interpretation of Islam rather than Christianity:
The Rahmbomb recently enlisted the head of the Nation of Islam to help police the streets since apparently CPD ain't up to the task. This is the same Rahm who is blocking Chick-fil-A from expanding in Chicago because of their anti-gay marriage stance. He claims that their CEO's position is against Chicago values, which in turn means that Chicago values are pro gay marriage.
Fine by me, I support gay marriage 100%. But here's where it gets comical, like some stuff you'd expect in a satire about politics but not in real life. Alas, Chicago is a living satire.
Louis Farrakhan and the NOI adamantly oppose gay marriage on the same religious grounds as Chick-fil-A's CEO, albeit through their interpretation of Islam rather than Christianity:
I guess Rahm is just anti-Christian and/or anti-white? ''Oh, what tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!''
He himself is Jewish so I doubt that he's anti-white or anti-Christian. He's just a man who sees securing votes as more important than being consistent with his morals. There aren't enough conservatives in Chicago for him to risk losing votes by opposing Chick-fil-A. Whereas if he distanced himself from the NOI, it could bite him in the ass later.
Politics is, after all, the art of the possible. This is something the American right wing has forgotten, accounting in no small measure for the rigid impotence of the current congress.
He himself is Jewish so I doubt that he's anti-white or anti-Christian. He's just a man who sees securing votes as more important than being consistent with his morals. There aren't enough conservatives in Chicago for him to risk losing votes by opposing Chick-fil-A. Whereas if he distanced himself from the NOI, it could bite him in the ass later.
By allowing the NOI to do thier thing he's getting some of the heat off of himself for the cities decades old racist policy of just cooping up the poor in dead-end neighborhoods and letting them police themselves.
You guys also are giving Rahm wayyyyy too much credit.
He's probably keeping Chick F out because a bunch of alderman and their rich backers have rival food franchises and they don't want the competition.
They kept wallmart out forever with excuses of helping the people but in reality they were helping their cronies keep their monopoly on overpriced groceries etc. All under the lie of standing up against big evil wallmart.
This is of course how politics are done in Chicago. I certainly hope that those here have more backbone, scruples and decency than Rahm.
Though compared to Rahm that could be describing a turd.
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