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All the NAACP had to do was to add the word "recently" in its tweet to head off all these historical anecdotes.
I.e., "... the state of Florida has recently become hostile ..."
@Axtremus said in Travel Advisory:
All the NAACP had to do was to add the word "recently" in its tweet to head off all these historical anecdotes.
I.e., "... the state of Florida has recently become hostile ..."
True. I wonder if Mr. Russell, who presumably signed off on this "advisory" has put his house on the market.
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Related: Would Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Let his Daughter Ride the CTA?
This is a simple question really, a straightforward question from a father who once loved Chicago, to another father who is mayor of Chicago, yet who defends the violent lest they be “demonized” by those troublesome law-abiding taxpayers:
Mayor Johnson, would you let your daughter ride unaccompanied on the CTA?
I don’t mean riding with an escort of armed Chicago police bodyguards with those cop faces that tell everyone thinking about approaching to stay away. Or a city limousine ride with the mayor’s ample bodyguard detail.
I mean alone on the rapid transit, with no advance warning to the CTA, just like thousands of poor women and girls must do so every day and night. They ride CTA rapid transit and the buses to get to and from work and school. Ridership plummets, even as crime increases. And women and girls are constantly subject to the threat of violence and real violence of beatings and robbery, of sexual assault.
Many thousands of poor women and girls are forced to run the gauntlet to get to school and work. No one rides the CTA if they don’t have to. No woman rides unless she must. The poor have no choice. They are constantly subject to violence and the threat of violence, of beatings, robbery, sexual assault. And violent men know that women and girls are soft targets.
In his inaugural speech even the mayor himself has said the CTA is not safe.
“Too many Chicagoans fear for their safety…when they walk down the streets, to get groceries or drive to the gas station, because our city’s homicide and violent crime rates have consistently outpace our peer cities,” said Johnson. “Our public transit is unreliable and unsafe. So much so, that many parents refuse to let their children ride even when the CTA could be the pathway to opportunity and enrichment.”
