-Voters agreed that @JBPritzker is consistent, competent and kind: he kept his promises on the budget/infrastructure and led IL through a pandemic.
- Mayor Irvin’s implosion reveals the detachment of the ILGOP from both race and reality. A 🧵:
JB promised he would raise the minimum wage, address climate change and infrastructure equitably, legalize weed + return resources to black/brown communities, and balance the budget. He promised he’d follow the science and prioritize saving lives during COVID. Done.✅
Nov 6, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Biden is going to win #Election2020. So why are people of color in agony?
Because a racist and misogynist POTUS can preside over tens of thousands preventable American deaths, tank the economy and undermine liberal democracy, and at least 70m Americans say: "Run that back." 1/
Some folk could rationalize 2016. Ppl could claim they didnt know Trump was racist. I don't understand how; he tried to lynch the Central Park Five, discriminated against blacks in public housing, called Mexicans rapists and criminals. But maybe he'd "grow" or so went the hope 2/
May 27, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
It's hard to find words about #GeorgeFloyd, but I'm going to try; for my own sake as much as for anyone who may care to listen. The overwhelming feeling I have is exhaustion, with a cold emptiness as its close companion. *Thread*
My favorite author, James Baldwin, in my favorite book, "The Fire Next Time," put it this way. "You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus...
Aug 13, 2018 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I know we experienced a violent weekend recently in Chicago and continue to struggle toward solutions to the economic inequality that is the fuel for so many of our city and state problems. But I am real tired of "south and west sides of Chicago" being used pejoratively *THREAD*
W/o question the south and west sides have challenges. I represent and live on the south side, and spent many of my childhood memories come from the west side. We need more economic development, more retail options, investments in our schools (new funding formula will help) (2)
