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A videotaped stabbing and beating of a man in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood has exposed some wide rifts in the cities gay neighborhood. The video also revealed that the attack occurred in front of my old apartment.
At a community policing meeting, which I documented last night, it was standing-room only for hundreds in the auditorium of the Inter-American Elementary School. All came because of a common concern about the latest high-profile and violent attack in their community. The recorded images of the attack show a crowd beating, stabbing and jeering at a 25-year-old African American man Sunday night on Boystown’s busy Halsted Street.
Please view my video below and enjoy these freeze frames.
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BULLSHIT I HAVE TO CALL IT THE CAUCASIAN HOMO’S CLAIM THAT THEY HAVE PUSHED FOR EVERYTHING AND PUSHED THE OTHER RACES TO THE SIDE NOT WANTING THEIR HELP DO YOU SEE THE SIMILARITY IN THIS WITH SLAVERY. CAUCASIAN HOMO’S HAVE TAKEN CREDIT FOR EVERYTHING SAYING THAT THEY CAME OUT FIRST WHEN IT IS EVERY HOMOSEXUAL RIGHT TO COME OUT WHEN HE OR SHE FEELS THEY SHOULD. THE RACISM HAS CROSSED FROM PREFERENCE AND IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN BY CAUCASIANS. AFTER WATCHING THAT VID I SEE THAT AFRICAN AMERICAN HOMO’S ARE NOT WANTED IN BOYS TOWN BUT IF YOUR SKIN IS LIGHT ENOUGH AND YOUR HAIR IS GOOD ENOUGH THEN YOU ARE WELCOME HAD IT NOT BEEN LIKE THAT I HONESTLY KNOW THAT BEATING WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPEN AS THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE OF A UNITY THAT WOULD HAVE WARDED OFF THAT MOB. YOU CAN SAY OH DON’T SPEAK IF YOU ONLY WANT TO BLAME BUT THAT FAILURE TO BE 100 PERCENT TRUE ABOUT TOLERANCE IN THE HOMO COMMUNITY NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED SIMPLE AS THAT.
Where is the rift here? Can we have some more context?
Here is a much more comprehensive story about the topic: http://www.wbez.org/story/divided-boystown-88832
There has been flaws since the building of the Community Center on Halsted. Young kids are sleeping on couches in the Center’s halls on the 2nd floor all day long. A gym without shower facilities stinks! I volunteered to be a mentor for Howard Brown’s Mentor program. They did a security check and gave me training… but did not use me, because most of the kids were black and they lacked black mentors and wanted black kids to have black mentors, and I was not black. I told them to utilize my services until they find some… and they did not. It’s no wonder that their board was inept. Where is the money going to run these non-profits. They manage to have too many Black-tie events that price students, seniors and the little guy out of them. It’s time to audit the Center on Halsted, and Howard Brown.