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Fascism in Chicago? Tear it down, Mr Emmanuel
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Author:  badrogue17 [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:12 am ]
Post subject:  Fascism in Chicago? Tear it down, Mr Emmanuel

A monument most of us have driven by thousands of times and given zero fucks about, has to go.


Aldermen Ed Burke and Gilbert Villeagas want the city to remove a monument to Italian fascist Italo Balbo near Soldier Field, according to the Sun-Times. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini gave the monument of his air comandante to Chicago in 1933. "I'm amazed the citizens of Chicago have not demanded that these symbols of fascism—a street and a statue bearing Balbo's name, donated by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, a sidekick of Adolf Hitler—be removed decades ago from the city's landscape," Burke said. "It is now time Chicago does something permanent about this embarrassing amomaly

Author:  Caller Bob [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:14 am ]
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The Ricketts family will pay for it.

Author:  rogers park bryan [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:15 am ]
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Add an "a" on the end of the street and replace the statue with this




Image

Author:  pittmike [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:21 am ]
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rogers park bryan wrote:
Add an "a" on the end of the street and replace the statue with this




Image


Economic solution. I like it.

Author:  Ugueth Will Shiv You [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Fascism in Chicago? Tear it down, Mr Emmanuel

Wasn't he a hobbit?

Author:  sjboyd0137 [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:41 am ]
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Ugueth Will Shiv You wrote:
Wasn't he a hobbit?


Yep

Author:  America [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:18 am ]
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He was a war hero on our side in WW1.

Author:  good dolphin [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:01 am ]
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Is Burke really that desperate for attention?

Author:  jimmypasta [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:03 am ]
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I think a Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) statue or Walt Disney statue would be great. Both born in Chicago.

Author:  Caller Bob [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:04 am ]
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jimmypasta wrote:
Walt Disney

Hated Jews.

Author:  jimmypasta [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:11 am ]
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Caller Bob wrote:
jimmypasta wrote:
Walt Disney

Hated Jews.


TELL IT TO JERRY!


Image

Author:  Caller Bob [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:13 am ]
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Look closely, I see serial numbers on those "Magic Bands"

Author:  badrogue17 [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:13 am ]
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Caller Bob wrote:
Look closely, I see serial numbers on those "Magic Bands"

:lol: :lol:

Author:  tommy [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:21 am ]
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There's a Confederate statue in a South Side cemetery and at least one pastor has an interesting take on it.

The Rev. James Dukes, of Liberation Christian Center, a South Side church, said that juxtaposition is a "healthy example" of how people should recognize "a past that is long passed."

"We can't erase the Civil War. We can't erase the fact that there was a Confederacy and a Union," he said. "But at the same time, those type of monuments acknowledge the fact that Harold Washington could become the mayor of Chicago because of the victory that took place over the Confederacy."

"I don't see it as a contradiction or a disrespect," Dukes said.

Instead, the monument should serve as a reflection of what black Americans went through during the Civil War and the Jim Crow era, he said.


However, a local history professor says:

"White men — North and South — were united by their support of segregation. They abandoned the whole issue of racial equality as one of the key things that was supposed to come out of the war," she said. "In that sense, this monument is troubling."

Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:22 am ]
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His daughter certainly is breathtaking.

Author:  badrogue17 [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:23 am ]
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tommy wrote:
There's a Confederate statue in a South Side cemetery and at least one pastor has an interesting take on it.

The Rev. James Dukes, of Liberation Christian Center, a South Side church, said that juxtaposition is a "healthy example" of how people should recognize "a past that is long passed."

"We can't erase the Civil War. We can't erase the fact that there was a Confederacy and a Union," he said. "But at the same time, those type of monuments acknowledge the fact that Harold Washington could become the mayor of Chicago because of the victory that took place over the Confederacy."

"I don't see it as a contradiction or a disrespect," Dukes said.

Instead, the monument should serve as a reflection of what black Americans went through during the Civil War and the Jim Crow era, he said.


However, a local history professor says:

"White men — North and South — were united by their support of segregation. They abandoned the whole issue of racial equality as one of the key things that was supposed to come out of the war," she said. "In that sense, this monument is troubling."
Gotta change your avatar. Already spoken for. formerlyknownas would like a word.

Author:  Juice's Lecture Notes [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:24 am ]
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Frank Coztansa wrote:
His daughter certainly is breathtaking.

:lol:

Author:  Seacrest [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:51 am ]
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good dolphin wrote:
Is Burke really that desperate for attention?



YES

Author:  America [ Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:59 am ]
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You know I spent some time reading about the guy...he's a legit hero. Like opposed the Nazi's, opposed anti-Semitism in Italy, decorated combat veteran...if there was ever a dude you'd want to put a memorial for he's it.

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