It’s a bad season for old-school Dems slipping and saying things that they’re not supposed to say.
First Andy Cuomo said that America was never great. Then Rahm Emanuel suggested that maybe the people shooting each other needed better parenting. What does he think he is, a Republican? He’s the Dem mayor of Chicago. He’s supposed to blame the NRA.
“This may not be politically correct,” he said, “but I know the power of what faith and family can do. … Our kids need that structure. … I am asking … that we also don’t shy away from a full discussion about the importance of family and faith helping to develop and nurture character, self-respect, a value system and a moral compass that allows kids to know good from bad and right from wrong.”
He added: “If we’re going to solve this … we’ve got to have a real discussion. … Parts of the conversation cannot be off-limits because it’s not politically comfortable. … We are going to discuss issues that have been taboo in years past because they are part of the solution. … We also have a responsibility to help nurture character. It plays a role. Our kids need that moral structure in their lives. And we cannot be scared to have this conversation.”
No, we need to shiver and be very afraid.
Shari Runner, former president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League, deemed the remarks insensitive. “I cannot see the victims of racist policies and bigoted practices shamed by anyone who says they need to do better or be better in their circumstance. I won’t accept it,” Runner said
Who are the victims of racist policies? The shooters? Or are the racists coming to Chicago and shooting everyone?
One paramedic described the evening as “a war zone.”
Since midnight, police said 43 people have been shot, six fatally. Since Friday at 5 p.m., 60 people have been shot, nine fatally, in shootings in Chicago.
34 of the shootings and five deaths occurred between 10 a.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday, according to police. During one two-and-a-half hour-hour period, 25 people were shot in five multi-injury shootings.
Police said a group of people, three teens and five adults, were standing in a courtyard in the 1300-block of West 76th Street at about 12:40 a.m. when several people approached on foot and opened fire at the group. The victims range in age from 14-years-old to 35 years-old.
Lawndale block party shooting leaves 4 wounded, including 13-year-old boy
Police said two gunman got out of a white Impala and shot four people at a block party in the 1600-block of South Avers Avenue at about 12:02 a.m. Later Sunday morning, a 17-year-old girl was killed and five other people wounded, including an 11-year-old boy in a shooting in the 1300-block of South Millard Avenue.
Clearly the parenting here is just fine.
Raoul believes curbing Chicago’s crime rate isn’t a simple matter of neighbors ratting out out another. “We have communities that have not been invested in. We have communities where mental health services have been depleted. We have communities that have suffered as a result of the budget impasse in Springfield. All of these combined, along with the closing of schools, what does one expect?” Raoul told The Chicago Tribune. “What does one expect to evolve from these communities if you don’t invest in these communities and you don’t invest in the children within those communities?”
We have been “investing” a fortune in these “communities”. If by investing, you mean throwing buckets of money into a hole.
What does one expect from these communities? Not shooting 60 people over the weekend would be one expectation.
And maybe some responsibility?
Saying that if there isn’t enough government spending going to social services, then there’s no reason not to expect mass shootings, is actually racist.
It’s just the racism of low expectations and prime victimhood that the left is quite comfortable with.
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