Please read all of the links very carefully as a means of understanding how RACE (and charges of RACISM[!!!!] is still abundant - even in a city like Chicago that has only one elected Republican Alderman who is countered by 49 other Democrats).
- (Chicago) Black Alderman Proposes New Redistricting Map With One Less Black Ward
- (Illinois) Black Representatives Disapprove Of Maps Drawn By Democrats
- (Dallas) Black City Council Members Fight Map That Would Reduce Their Power
- (DC): Del Eleanor Holmes Norton To Address The Potential Losses From Blacks Moving To The Suburbs
When the connection between a district being attractive because of its jobs, education and safety - THUS being able to retain its population versus those political operatives who presided over the population loss becomes totally abstracted - the present conditions that we see in the Black community come to light. The constituents are asked to LOOK PAST the failings because.......if they don't reelect this same official .....the Black community will be hurt.
From The Article
The City Council’s Black Caucus on Monday unveiled a proposed new ward map that includes 19 majority black wards — forfeiting only the 2nd Ward already represented by a white alderman — despite a 182,000-person drop in Chicago’s black population.
Chicago currently has 20 black wards, 13 white wards, 11 Hispanic wards and six wards with a “majority minority” mix of Hispanics, blacks and Asians.
The Hispanic Caucus is demanding as many as six more wards to reward Latinos for their 25,000-person population gain over the last decade.
The Black Caucus map includes just two more Hispanic wards — the 10th and 23rd. Both are currently represented by veteran white aldermen: John Pope (10th) and Mike Zalewski (23rd).
“The numbers merit more,” said Ald. Danny Solis (25th), chairman of the Hispanic Caucus.
“I don’t think it’s an insult. It’s a first draft on their part. We don’t think it’s their final offer.”
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