Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis: Whitey Pays all the Taxes, Let's Make Them Pay More!!!

Middle-class blacks (read: government employees) are fleeing the city of Chicago, leaving behind William Julius Wilson’s ‘disadvantaged class’ and the type of communities they create for the entire world to see.

The Chicago Public System is less than eight percent white (it requires a massive allocation of monetary resources for security purposes to ensure student/teacher/administrator safety), and with the departure of large numbers of students for safer districts, was forced to close 49 schools.

Karen Lewis, the head of the Chicago Teachers Union, admits that white communities in Chicago provide the bulk of the tax-revenue that fuels the Chicago Public School system (only eight percent white enrollment)

Now, the head of the Chicago Teachers Union has decided to point the proverbial finger of doom in the direction of white people. In her case, it's an excessively meaty finger...[CTU's Lewis rips Emanuel's 'elite' advisers, Chicago Tribune, June 19, 2013]:

In the wake of recent school closings and teacher layoffs, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis took aim Tuesday at the two R’s of her education reform effort — racism and revenue. 

Lewis, speaking to the City Club of Chicago, did not directly criticize Mayor Rahm Emanuel. But she went after his kitchen cabinet of educational advisers as wealthy “elites” from the venture capital and corporate world and questioned what “rich white people” know about what’s in the best educational interests for minority children. 

“Members of the status quo, the people who are running the schools and advising the mayor on how best to run our district, know what good education looks like because they have secured it for their own children in well-resourced public and private institutions,” Lewis said. “When will there be an honest conversation about poverty and racism and inequality that hinders the delivery of an education product in our school system? When will we address the effect that rich white people think they know what’s in the best interest of children of African Americans and Latinos, no matter what the parents’ income or education level.” Lewis called for enactment of “progressive taxation” that would tax the wealthier at a greater rate compared to the state’s flat-rate income tax. She also said “bold leadership” would end corporate tax subsidies and loopholes. And she repeated earlier calls for a reform of tax increment financing districts and enactment of a financial transactions tax. 

Asked if the city schools also should boost property taxes, Lewis said, “Yes.” But, she added, ““If you look at a majority of the tax base for property taxes in Chicago, they’re mostly white, who don’t have a real interest in paying for the education of poor black and brown children. We don’t want to say that out loud.” 

Lewis maintained the city’s public schools have made investments in schools closer to downtown at the expense of other neighborhoods. 

She said she feared the announced layoffs last week of 850 workers, including about 500 teachers, as a result of public school closings makes her fear “it’s just the tip of the iceberg” for a system facing a $1 billion deficit. 

“Where will this impact be felt the most?” she asked. “In predominantly African American communities.”

When will there be an honest conversation about how individuals are responsible for the poverty they create, and that inequality is the natural order of life when racial groups of different inherent (collective) intellectual abilities inhabit the same city?

Funny, Karen Lewis is able to understand property values and economics, correctly noting that white people provide the majority of the tax base (because white individuals are collectively capable of creating communities where high social capital flourishes, meaning high appraisals for greater millage rates), so she is at least cognizant of racial differences.

But only when those differences benefit her peoples bottom-line.

Of course, the whole Chicago Public School strike of 2012 was largely about the silent acquiescence to the reality of racial differences, which also affected her peoples bottom-line, or more importantly, their pocket book.

But racial differences that explain why blacks (and brown people) are impoverished and why their communities in Chicago are so blighted – and incapable of producing tax-revenue to support a 1^st world civilization – isn’t allowed as evidence in the court of public opinion.

But the reverse of this is true, when blaming white people and segregation for all the ills in the black (and brown) community of Chicago. No one is allowed to point out that, perhaps, the ills found in the black (and brown) community of Chicago is the primary driving force behind white people’s desire to create their own enclaves…

At least in a public forum, that is.

"Strong schools and strong neighborhoods" don't look anything like this...

 

But Lewis is free to blame whitey without fear of any blowback, for the calamitous situation the CPS system finds itself in can’t be the fault of non-whites.

It just can’t. [Lewis Points Finger At ‘Rich White People’ For School Problems, CBS Chicago, June 19, 2013]:

WBBM Newsradio’s Nancy Harty reports, at a luncheon on education reform, Lewis told members of the City Club that Chicago is the most segregated city in America. 

Lewis said minority neighborhoods are disproportionately disinvested by the city, and see more foreclosures and school closures.“It’s as if there were a concerted effort to make sure that these are not walkable, thriving, healthy communities,” she said.

No, it’s apparent black people in not just Chicago, but the nation over, actively engage and participate in the collective action of making their neighborhoods and communities in any way, shape, or form of being described as ‘healthy’…

Walkable, thriving, or healthy are not adjectives any sane person would use to describe a black neighborhood/community, and it is because of the inhabitants of these black neighborhoods/communities that such a verdict can made.

But in the rules of etiquette governing Black-Run America (BRA), the conditions of black communities/neighborhoods must always be blamed on some pernicious white supremacist conspiracy attempting to hold back all non-whites for nebulous, undefined reasons.

You would think that white people would be doing everything possible to utilize the public schools their tax-dollars go disproportionately to support and fund (as Lewis noted), by trying to remove the impediments to a safe, productive environment for education – namely the black and brown kids whose presence requires police-state measures to control.

Instead, white people are taxed in Chicago and then pay private school tuition on top of this, for this form of education is the only way to ensure their students don’t require the Chicago Fire Department to escort their children to and from class [FIREMEN ON PATROL TO FIGHT CHICAGO GANGS: Police officer lashes out at 'demented morality' where government must 'raise children', WND, 5-28-13]:

The city of Chicago has ordered its firefighters to provide security for public school students walking to and from class through the city’s gang turf, according to an official memo from the Chicago Fire Department that WND obtained. 

“[I]t is critical that CFD assist in providing the children with reassurance during their travels,” the memo reads. “This will be accomplished through our public presence, being good ambassadors to the children of Chicago and providing support when and if they require it.” 

But a Chicago police officer who insisted on anonymity said, “If the parents are so concerned about their children’s security they should be walking their own kids to school. 

“Let the reverends organize the parents to walk their kids to school but don’t waste the precious resources of a police officer or fireman to do what parents should be doing,” he said. 

That officer believes that there is little hope of high-crime urban communities acting together for their own good. 

“As far as police wondering where parents, churches, local leaders or community organizers are we know where they are. They are taking care of enriching themselves at the expense of the taxpayers while they rely on the city and the police to raise their children. 

“These communities do not know shame,” he said, and their “demented morality” wreaks devastation. 

As part of the effort to protect students going to and from school, the Chicago school system began a Safe Passage program. However, community leaders are not satisfied, and they have directed their ire at Mayor Rahm Emanuel. 

“He says that he wants to turn around the city of Chicago, make a new Chicago. Does that new Chicago mean no black folks?” one asked.

A stunning indictment of the type of communities black and brown create in Chicago, the antithesis of walkable and healthy.

Karen Lewis is the perfect image for Black-Run America. Perfect. 

Whereas fire fighters get cats out of trees in white communities of Chicago, they escort black and brown children to school in… black and brown communities.

Turning Chicago around, making a “new” Chicago, means just returning to the demographics found in Chicago only four score ago. Chicago was 91 percent white in 1940, an era when the collective activities of individual white people created an economic engine of activity in the Windy City that attracted blacks from all across the south.

Chicago in 2013, save the white families who have insulated themselves in safe enclaves (whose tranquil communities provide ample tax revenue via high property valuations, which black and brown communities can’t replicate), is a city on the verge of collapse.

Courtesy of the descendants of the Great Migration.

Or what we have dubbed, Manifest Destruction.

Say it with us again: white America owes black America nothing. 

Nothing.