Loading ...They’re Black Democrats. And They’re Suing Chicago Over Migrants.
The city greets new arrivals with resources like health screenings and rent support. ‘They’re giving migrants all the things we’ve been asking for since we came here in chains.’
“How dare you?” That was the first reaction Cata Truss, a 57-year-old mother on the West Side of Chicago, had when she found out who was behind the push to turn her neighborhood park into a shelter for migrants: Democrats she helped elect.
There was no way she was going to let Amundsen Park—what she calls “the crown jewel of the community”—go to the newly arrived migrants from the Mexican border. Especially not when there were black Chicagoans who needed the space, which she says kept her five sons “out of trouble” and busy playing football when they were young.
“There’s a humanitarian crisis in the black community,” said Truss. “But every time we have a need in our community, we’re told that there are no funds. There’s no money for us.”
Everyone now has a “community” – self interested, inward looking, defensive, exclusionary, and oh so grasping. Each community, with its beggar’s bowl, doing its best to secure outsized benefits from the commons. Each community indifferent to the concerns of the others. Divide and conquer writ large. A true community is greater than its parts. We once were much closer to that ideal.