Chicago, IL—I was born and raised here, growing up in challenging circumstances with a dysfunctional, single mother who often left me to fend for myself. Whether she abandoned me with friends or sent me off to a boys' home for three years, I was forced to navigate a childhood of extreme poverty and neglect. By age 14, I had no choice but to get a full-time job and find my own apartment, or face being placed into foster care. Survival meant lying about my age, which I did to secure a job at Jake’s Pup in the Ruff in the Uptown neighborhood. By day, I attended Senn High School, and by night, I ran the hotdog stand alone. I found a small apartment and convinced the landlord I was 18. From there, things gradually improved, and I was thrust into adulthood much earlier than most. The reason I share this background is to highlight my understanding of the realities of poverty, hunger, and parental neglect—issues that plague Chicago’s ghettos. However, despite those hardships, I didn’t gr...

Chicago, IL —The courtroom of Judge Charles Burns is the scene of a real eye-opener for America.  Although cameras are still barred from Illinois courts there is enough information being printed, broadcasted and published on the Internet to get some needed attention. The story begins and ends with Jennifer Hudso n who was brought up in the incredibly violent Chicago sewer called Englewood .  Our creator gave Jennifer a great voice and the discipline to harness it for a fairytale career far from the sub-human ghetto that spawned her.   That gift may well have saved Jennifer’s life.  This is about one society failure after another.  It began with Social experimentation by government officials with perhaps nefarious political agendas.  They wanted to give the recently migrated African-Americans a place to settle and live in the Windy City.  What they gave them is deceit, despair and doom. Many people supported the idea of providing ge...

Washington, DC —In what could only be describe as racist inspired effort to establish Socialism in America, the African-American Entitlement Zombie was created. When the state residency requirements to collect welfare were outlawed by the Earl Warren Court in the early 1960s the poorest African-Americans began a mass-migration to the big cities. The outlawed residency requirements insured that welfare assistance would automatically be denied to anyone who could not establish that they were a resident of that state for at least one year. States like Michigan, Illinois, New York, Maryland and Ohio paid generous benefits to those people unable or unwilling to work. The states in the Deep South did not believe in the handout programs. Racist Southern officials soon realized they could export their poorest African-Americans through educating them of the generous entitlements in the North. Officials actually provided one way bus transportation and five dollars in cash to anyone who...

Chicago, I L—When Chicago police do the job they were trained to do people are arrested taken to jail, tried and in the vast majority of cases convicted. When Ghetto Rats are arrested, the natural way friends and family members of the accused do what they know works to defeat the arrest. They go to the politicians, local ministers and media as they complain and hold protest demonstrations. Of course this always comes with the obligatory phony allegations of racial profiling, brutality and falsified evidence. Chicago cops are underpaid, undermanned, outgunned, demoralized and simply tired. They and their families are exhausted from drowning in a sea of chaos every time they make an arrest. The constant phony allegations, internal investigations, and stress related to doing their job has taken a terrible toll. Are cops assigned to ghetto districts suffering from a form of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome? I have to suspect that’s been the case all along. There can only be one t...

I guess this man and his congregation pray to a different God. I’m wondering just how many of people of his mindset are roaming our streets? Like Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. Khalid Muhammad too has a dream. Or in this case a nightmare for the rest of us. My question is where are the Southern Poverty Law Center hate watchers?