Memorial Day Weekend 2013 in Chicago: The Apocalyptic Vision of the Long-Ago Displaced White, Working-Class Come-To-Life

Have you ever wondered why white, working-class families in places like Chicago fought so bitterly against integration?

How could a group of people be so intolerant?

Perhaps they knew something about the low-impulse control and poor future-time orientation exhibited by a sizable portion of this population, and the generally less civil nature of the potential black neighbors in their community (and the deleterious effect they’d have on the property values, school system, and business community the white residents had carefully cultivated) that in 2013 America, is not an opinion one can state publicly –- without experiencing social and professional ostracism.

Memorial Day weekend 2013 in the Windy City was a manifestation of the apocalyptic vision many of those white, working-class families had of a future when integration had occurred.

Actually, it’s a future where the white, working-class family has effectively been destroyed, ethically cleansed and displaced from a city whose economic conditions that long ago attracted black migrants were because of their sacrifices and sweat.

Six dead, 22 wounded in Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend of 2013, the most tragic being the shooting death of 17-year-old Leetema Daniels.

After all, how many ‘Leetema’s’ are there left now in the world, knowing this name is on the Endangered Black Ghetto Names list…

Over this same weekend, a suspect (a black male, big shocker) in the shooting death of 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins was arrested – Koman Willis is charged with fatally shooting her father, all because he stole a ‘video-game console’ from him [Prosecutor: Suspect in killing of baby vowed vengeance, Chicago Times, 5-27-13]:

Koman Willis stood in court today, thumbs hooked in the back of his jeans, as he listened to a prosecutor describe how vengeance over a stolen video game drove Willis to fatally shoot 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins as she was being held by her father. 

 Willis had “told others that he would shoot the people responsible for the burglary of his mother’s home,” Assistant State’s Attorney Heather Kent told a judge. “The defendant also told one of the people he believed was responsible for the burglary that he was ‘going to kill him’ when he caught him." 

 Willis, 33, had suspected Jonathan Watkins, 29, of stealing the video game system from his mother's home. On March 11, he opened fired as Watkins and his baby daughter sat parked in a minivan in the Woodlawn neighborhood. A bullet entered Jonylah's right shoulder and traveled down through her left thigh. She died the following day. Her father survived multiple gunshot wounds. 

 Kent said Watkins was in the front passenger seat of his van, changing his daughter’s diaper, at the time of the shooting. “Jonathan lifted Jonylah up to kiss her when the defendant approached and fired multiple gunshots into the van,” Kent said. Willis also made admissions to other people that he had seen Watkins driving in the neighborhood, went and got his gun and then opened fire on the van, Kent said. 

 Willis “told others that he would shoot the people responsible for the burglary of his mother’s Chatham home,” Kent said. “The defendant also told one of the people he believed was responsible for the burglary that he was ‘going to kill him’ when he caught him." Law enforcement sources said whoever stole the game system sold it to someone else in the neighborhood. When the new owner hooked up the system at home, he saw it belonged to Willis, a fairly well-known figure in the neighborhood and a convicted felon with more than three dozen arrests dating to 1996.

Only in a broken judicial system could a individual with more than three dozen arrests still have his freedom – a freedom to avenge the theft of his unmentioned ‘video game console’ by firing wildly at the Watkins family and killing the six-month-old.

Maybe, just maybe you get the idea why the white, working-class families of old protested integration.

But it is the state of the Chicago Public School (CPS) system in 2013 (untouched by the positive nature of white privilege – meaning good, safe schools) that is the ultimate reminder of the true costs of integration [CPS approves largest school closure in Chicago's history, Chicago Tribune, May 23, 2013]:

Yet economic and racial diversity have visibly eluded city schools, with 87 percent of the district's 403,000 students coming from low-income families and more than 91 percent from minority households, records show.  

The serious underenrollment problem the administration cites as a reason for closings is linked in large measure to an exodus from the city in recent years of middle-class African-American families. 

That demographic reality was underscored by board member Mahalia Hines in casting her vote. She likened the problem facing city schools to a nervous dental patient deciding whether to put off necessary oral surgery. 

"The decay is too much, and that's why so many middle-class African-Americans have left the city," she said, linking depopulation among blacks directly to problems of the schools.

Eighty-seven percent of the 403,000 students in the CPS come from ‘low-income families’ meaning they – like their parents – will inevitably be future wards of the state.

The so-called ‘black middle-class’ is a mish-mash of government employees and corporate affirmative action flunkies, whose ability to practice a tad higher amount of impulse control than Koman Willis gave them the opportunity to be employed as a US Postal Service worker or to fulfill diversity requirements at a Fortune 500 company.

Have you ever wondered why white, working-class families in places like Chicago fought so bitterly against integration?

How could a group of people be so intolerant?

It’s hard for most people - born into a world where every minor achievement of black people is inflated to be incontrovertible proof against the notion of racial inequality – to conceive of a world where their elected representatives actually have the communities best interest at heart, instead of basing every legislative and judicial decision on how it will best improve the conditions of the black community.

White America owes black America nothing – nothing.

But even mentioning that a collective known as ‘white America’ exists is tantamount to heresy against the God of Equality, which watches over not just Chicago, but all of the territory Black-Run America (BRA) governs.

Like Aztecs of old, who sacrificed their own people to their Gods, we have sacrificed our major cities on the altar of equality – when a city like Detroit, Birmingham, Memphis, or Baltimore collapses under black-rule, we are told to cling ever-more-tightly to the illusion of equality.

No matter what happens to your Leetema's, Jonylah's, Koman's, and the Chicago Public School system, our faith in equality must never waver – no matter if the community they helped create is the apocalyptic vision come-to-life of that long ago displaced white, working class...