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The Beachwood Radio Hour #34: John Kass Can BreatheThat's easy. But thinking is hard. Plus: Rahm's Kinky Campaign Kickoff; The Worst Reporter In Chicago; The Illusory Raise In Chicago's Minimum Wage; Who Polices The Chicago Police? The Chicago Police.
SHOW NOTES :00: Strawberry Rock Show. :54: St. Vincent at the Chicago Theatre on Tuesday night. * The Thanksgiving Week/Weekend In Chicago Rock. 2:14: John Kass Can Breathe. 6:04: Mean Jeans at Livewire on Wednesday, November 26. 7:30: John Kass Explains Race To America. * The only time the fix isn't in is when a grand jury isn't indicting a white cop for shooting a black kid. * In Chicago, the moral arc of the universe bends toward injustice. * Mary Mitchell: In Fatal Incidents, Black Officers Don't Receive The Same Benefit Of The Doubt.
* Isn't Kass playing the race card every time he invokes Al Sharpton? * Article 99. * Ray Liotta! A young Ray Liotta. * Michael Brown's hands were up. * Thinking is hard, screaming is easy. * Kass: It's about taxes, not an illegal chokehold.
* NY Daily News Study: Broken Windows Policing Is Racist. * Broken windows policing does not work. * Rand Paul Blames Eric Garner's Death On Cigarette Taxes. * All About Al. * The Outrage Is In Your Face. Also here at 52:10. * Repeat after me: There is no such thing as black-on-black crime. Race is not a motive. What you are describing is poor-on-poor crime. It's about proximity - and vulnerability. It would be nice if poor black criminals got on the bus and robbed people on Michigan Avenue, but that street is loaded with cops. Plus, the bus. * Um, there are marches against violence in Chicago almost every week. * Neil Steinberg explains race.
Because white people are the ones with the problem. * Chris Rock explains it all. 27:52: Song of the Moment: Fight The Power. 30:31: Kass vs. George W. Bush. * We had a president who had to have this explained to him. See also: * Don Wycliff: A Police War On Black Men? * Steve Chapman: Are Blacks To Blame For Cops' Actions? * Tribune editorial: Why Killings By Police Cause Public Suspicion. * ProPublica: Deadly Force, In Black And White. 33:34: The Lemons at Livewire on the Wednesday of Thanksgiving week. 34:32: Drewrys. That's good Drewrys. * New! Gay! * Crain's: Drewrys Beer Returns. 34:52: Rahm's Kinky Campaign Kickoff. * William Dawson, not Dawes. William Dawes was one of the dudes who warned that the British were coming. I don't know how I got that in my head. * William Dawson's black submachine. * Cinespace movie studio vs. Woodlawn health clinic. * Media needs a strategy. * What would account for a change in polls toward Rahm? Reality remains the same. * Chicago for some, not all. * Fioretti is Italian and Polish. 51:29: The Gizmos at the Empty Bottle on the Saturday night of Thanksgiving week. 53:21: The Worst Reporter In Chicago. 1:13:58: Death To All at the Metro on Tuesday night of Thanksgiving week. 1:14:47: The Illusory Raise In Chicago's Minimum Wage. * Rahm moves Chicago forward into 1966. * Rahm: "Washington wouldn't do it. Springfield couldn't do it. But here in Chicago, we did it." That's because Washington and Springfield have two-party systems. Which reminds me, where was Rahm when he was Obama's chief of staff and the Democrats controlled Congress? * Rahm's Evolving Position On The Minimum Wage. * "After 2019, yearly increases would be pegged to the local consumer price index, with a limit of 2.5 percent, if the unemployment rate stays below 8.5 percent." This needs to be examined more closely. Why not do the same for aldermen? 1:22:15: Who Polices The Chicago Police? The Chicago Police. * The case of Cmdr. Glenn Evans. * Progress is when cops get less crazy. 1:33:06: Wiz Khalifa at the House of Blues on Monday night of thanksgiving week. STOPPAGE: 35:08 - For archives and more, see The Beachwood Radio Network. - Posted on December 8, 2014 |
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