A Surprise to no One..the Tone of this Election

Is Obama A Friend To The Black Community? 3 Year Old Curtis Cooper, Dead Black Boy Would Say “No”…



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Since Team Obama had decided to forcefully inject race into the Presidential election, how about we look at what part race played in the senseless death of little 3 year old Curtis Cooper, who happened to be… black.



Even though this happened over the summer and has already been reported elsewhere, I’ll do a quick recap. Let’s start with excerpts from an article the Boston Globe:





As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.





But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies – including several hundred in Obama’s former district – deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.





Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama’s close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama’s constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.





Some of the residents of Grove Parc say they are angry that Obama did not notice their plight. The development straddles the boundary of Obama’s state Senate district. Many of the tenants have been his constituents for more than a decade.





“No one should have to live like this, and no one did anything about it,” said Cynthia Ashley, who has lived at Grove Parc since 1994.



Hmmm, maybe it’s a coincidence that most of the people in Grove Parc are black? Interestingly, guess whose name comes up? Why? Tony Rezko of course:





Antoin “Tony” Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama’s early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko’s company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama’s district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.





Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers – including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko – collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama’s campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama’s own accounting.



So that we are all on the same page, here is how it worked: Obama channeled government funds and subsidies to Rezko et. al to “rehabilitate” public housing in areas which were part of Obama’s constituency, Rezko et. al channeled campaign contributions to Obama. It seems everyone was happy except for the residents of the housing projects who were forced to live like animals, and who unfortunately happened to be overwhelmingly black.



But that’s not all, a little 3 year old black boy, named Curtis Cooper actually lost his life as a result of the game of smoke and mirrors Obama played with his campaign contributors developer buddies:





A 3-year-old Chicago boy was killed when a heavy iron gate fell on top of him.





It happened at Chicago’s Cabrini Green housing complex on the city’s North Side.





Witnesses say the 3-year-old had been riding his tricycle before the gate fell on him in part of a housing authority project in the 900-block of North Cambridge.





Residents say the young boy should be considered the victim of neglect. Essentially, they contend that it was a lack of upkeep and investment on the part of the Chicago Housing Authority and a management firm that led to this child’s death.



So next time someone comes up to you and says you are racists because you hate black people or some similar BS, please remind them about the tragic story of Curtis Cooper, a little black boy whose life was prematurely snuffed out because Obama put the financial interests of his “non-black” campaign contributors over the interests of his “black” constituents.