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The Current State of Black People in America Case Study - Illinois© Data Project by Cecile Johnson AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT PLAN 8-28-15 ©

In America today the question still is…

Picture Source : Occupy Wall St. Aug 19 2014 FB post

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Two Nations Black and White, Separate, Hostile Unequal.

Andrew Hacker

“ Black Americans are Americans, yet they still subsist as aliens in the only land they know. Blacks must endure a segregation that is far from freely chosen. So America may be seen as two separate nations. Of course there are places where the races mingle. Yet in respects, the separation is pervasive and penetrating. As a social and human division, it surpasses all others- even gender – in intensity and subordination. (41) Whites who embrace America as a nation fail to feel in anyway responsible for its condition. They deem themselves to be above oppressing or holding down their fellow black citizens . On the contrary , they believe that blacks have oftentimes been given unfair advantages.”

They are oblivious to white privilege. “This deep seated and often unconscious racism is deeply embedded in the psyche of Americans, which are reflected in beliefs of superiority and inferiority today.”

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Why do we still have to teach our children a different code of conduct in dealing with “Peace Officers�?

“We must deal with the issue of RACE” “The first step of solving any problem is not to hide from it.

THE FIRST STEP TO ANY FORM OF ACTION IS AWARENESS.”

Mellody Hobson,

President, Ariel Investment

“I work in the investment business, and we have a saying — the numbers don’t lie.”

“And the numbers show clearly that there are significant disparities in household wealth, income, job opportunity, and much more. “

Photo by James Duncan Davidson http://blog.ted.com/2014/03/20/be-color-bravenot-color-blind-mellody-hobson-at-ted2014/

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One Drop rule’ persists Harvard Professors

‌ their work reflects the cultural entrenchment of America’s traditional racial hierarchy, which assigns the highest status to whites, followed by Asians, with Latinos and blacks at the bottom. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/12/%E2%80%98one-drop-rule%E2%80%99-persists/

THE CRISIS FACING THE BLACK COMMUNITY

• “Today we have more Black elected officials in the United States than at any point in American History.

Yet for the vast majority of Black people, life has changed very little.”

• “Black elected officials have largely governed in the same way as their white counterparts, reflecting all of the racism, corruption and policies favoring the wealthy seen throughout mainstream politics.”

AFRICAN AMERICANS make up 15% of the STATE and 33% in Chicago

C H I C A G O

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT is about what people can do and be; it is the process of improving people’s well-being and expanding their freedoms and opportunities.

The HD Index measures three core dimensions of human well-being: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge, and a decent standard of living.

In 2010, the U.S.A HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX score was

5.03

They state “ Average life expectancy has increased by more than nine years and adults are nearly four times as likely to have a bachelor’s degree.

The top-scoring racial/ethnic group on the American HD Index is Asian Americans (7.21), followed by whites (5.43), Latinos (4.05),

African Americans (3.81), and Native Americans (3.55).

http://www.measureofamerica.org/docs/MOA-III-June-18FINAL.pdf (2013)

HOW ARE THE BLACK PEOPLE DOING? HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR # 1

Segregation still impacts us • Chicago has remained one of the most segregated cities in America per the America Community Survey between 2005 and 2009 study from a new report and maps produced by the Joint Center for Political Economic Studies (2012). This segregation points to issues of persistent poverty in certain census tracts over the last 40 years.

• Nearly all the neighborhoods with the lowest access to chain supermarkets or large independent grocery stores with at least 5 cash registers were located in the City’s South Side, south of interstate 55 in the city, in an area almost exclusively populated by minorities.

• These areas also have the lowest educational attainment and the lowest access to food.

• And because of the city’s historic segregation, this also means those people with shorter life expectancies- a proxy for poor health outcomes- are invariably minorities. This research reinforces that where you live may be the most important determinant of your health. “Place really is the fundamental issue, residential segregation is really the fundamental driver of many of the health inequalities that we see “ says Brian Smedley, Director of the Health Policy Institute at the Center for Politics and Economic Studies

SOURCE: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/08/living-some-parts-chicago-can-take-more-decade-your-life/2781/

Where you live Impacts how long you live Per a Aug 2012 article by Emily Badger, Living in some parts of Chicago can take more than a decade off your life. In a new report, Place Matters for Health in Cook County, a couple of “alarming conclusions emerge”. Researchers with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, in conjunction with the Center on Human Needs at Virginia Commonwealth University, have found

that people living in Chicago neighborhoods with a median income higher than $53,000 a year have a life expectancy almost 14 years longer than Chicagoans who live in communities with a median income below $25,000.

And because of the city’s historic segregation, this also means those people with shorter life expectancies- a proxy for poor health outcomes- are invariably minorities.

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http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/08/living-some-parts-chicago-can-takemore-decade-your-life/2781/

… people living in Chicago neighborhoods with a median income higher than $53,000 a year have a life expectancy almost 14 years longer than Chicagoans who live in communities with a median income below $25,000.” Place Matters for Health in Cook County,

Where you live Impacts how long you live, SEGREGATION STILL EXIST in Chicago with HUGE IMPACT for Black People

The HUMAN DEVELOPMENT APPROACH…

HOW ARE THE PEOPLE DOING? ILLINOIS is one of the STATES with the largest gap in racial life expectancy for women (> 6 years) In Illinois White women have higher than average life expectancy and Black women experience lower than average or average life expectancy.

ILLINOIS is one of the STATES with the largest gap in racial life expectancy for men (> 8 years ) The gap is large because Black Men live fewer years than expected, whereas white men live equal to/ or longer than expected

Segregation persists in Chicago where 48 of the 77 communities are MAJORITY MINORITY. THE POOREST COMMUNITIES in Chicago are MAJORITY AFRICAN AMERICAN .

FOOD DESERTS “Communities that have no or distant grocery stores , or have an imbalance of healthy food options, will likely have increased premature death and chronic health conditions.”

SOURCE: Examining the impact of FOOD DESERTS on Public Health in Chicago- Mari Gallagher (2006)

“We must know the difference between FOOD vs FILLER. FOOD is something you eat which regenerates the body, providing vitamins and enzymes to make the body strong.

FILLER is something you eat which does not regenerate the body.”

Steven Heath

http://blackdemographics.com/

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healt h/statistics/suicide/_148398.pd f http://blackdemographics.com/

Mortality risk for black infants nearly triples that of whites in Illinois

BY JENN STANLEY MAY 1, 2014

Deaths per 1000 live WHITE 5.4 deaths BLACK 14 deaths African-American infants die from complications of preterm birth and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Syndrome, also known as SUIDS, at a disproportionate rate.

MDG 4 Infant Mortality http://newsarchive.medill.northwestern. edu/chicago/news-230270.html

MDG 5 U.S.A 1987 -2010

MDG 5 : Maternal Mortality BLACK vs. WHITE USA 2010 Maternal mortality a big issue for women's health in US

Released: July 14, 2013

HUGE DISPARITY in INFANT MORTALITY (MDG 4) and MATERNAL MORTALITY (MDG 5) numbers in the U.S.A. •

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“The kind of inhumane deprivation that exists in the dysfunctional low-income crime-ridden environment that is colloquially called a slum and which the federal government refers euphemistically as “targeted census tracts,” leads to stress, anxiety, abuse, poor nutrition, infrequent doctor visits or no visits at all until the time of delivery, because of lack of money and lack of health insurance.”

“Inadequate micronutrients, insufficient vitamin B or infections lead to all sorts of complications and suboptimal outcomes including birth defects, stillbirths, pre-term delivery and low birthweight followed by high infant mortality.”

In America, inequality begins in the womb

BY JOHN KOMLOS May 20, 2015 at 4:22 PM EDT

Infant Mortality Deaths per 1000 live

WHITE 5.4 deaths BLACK 14 deaths

Chicago 2000-2004 27 Black women vs.

1 White woman died

27

1

8

3 7

MATERNAL MORTALITY: During the same time period, African Americans accounted for nearly 75% of all maternal deaths while only representing about a third of all births.

“Patient to Doctor ratios in 12 Chicago Neighborhoods equal to 3rd world countries�

In 12 communities in Chicago (most of which are on the city's South and Southwest sides), there are more than 3,000 people for every one doctor.

That's about the same as the patientto-doctor ratios in third-world countries, like Yemen, Myanmar and Namibia.

Those 12 communities are Ashburn, Auburn Gresham, Austin, Brighton Park, Chatham, Gage Park, Hermosa, Rogers Park, Montclare, Mount Greenwood, Roseland and West Englewood.

Chicago Muckrackers - 8/19/2011 Article by Megan Cottrell

Chicago 2010 Asthma & Lead Prevalence Thursday, September 8, 2011

South-side children have greatest exposure to lead in Chicago, health department data shows The Englewood community has the highest EBL rate, where 9.15 percent of the children who were tested for lead came back with a positive EBL. Neighborhoods in the north end of Chicago had EBL rates between 0.8 percent and 3.31 percent. http://www.mentalmunition.com/2011/09/s outh-side-children-have-greatest.html

WHAT ABOUT THE PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE? • What must it be like to live in a community where your life is in jeopardy on a daily basis?

• Where you have to shuffle to survive?

• Where your dignity and pride are assaulted at every turn?

• Where you are treated like a third rate citizen in a seemingly first rate society, a society whose benefits you are consistently denied access to?

TRAUMA Who is protecting our Human Rights?

• Each of us has our own story of police harassment and brutality.

– Driving while Black.

– Overuse of force when arresting – False arrest.

Skip Gates Arrested For Breaking And Entering... ...in his own house. Incredible: TA-NEHISI COATES JUL 20 2009,

• VOTER DENIAL – “purge or scrub list” • JIM CROW LAWS • LYNCHING • MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION • CONVICT LEASING • REDLINING • DRIVING WHILE BLACK 30

SUICIDE RATES In 2007- Blacks were the lowest

Suicide rates per race: (2007) http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide/_148372.pd

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide/_148379.pdf

SUICIDE RATESIn 2007- Blacks are lowest

Suicide rates per race: (2007) http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide/_148372.pd

Where it happens (2000-2006) http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide/_148383.pdf

HOW ARE THE PEOPLE DOING? HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR # 2

WASHINGTON STATE 2008 http://www.k12.wa.us/cisl/pubdocs/aframer%20achgap%20rpt%20final.pdf

U.S.A. NATIONAL Student Achievement 4th Grade MATH

U.S.A. NATIONAL Student Achievement 4th Grade READING

U.S.A. NATIONAL Student Achievement 8th Grade MATH

U.S.A. NATIONAL Student Achievement 8th Grade READING

ILLINOIS Black /White Student Achievement Gaps are among the largest in the country

SOURCE: Multicultural group of children everydaylife.globalpost.com

http://www.advanceillinois.org/illinois-student-performance-over-time-pages-267.php

RACE MATTERS Ongoing racial segregation. Black and Latino students are more educationally segregated now than two decades ago.

Data from the 2013 school year show that in Chicago, 85+ percent of public school enrollment was Black or Hispanic; less than 10 percent of children in the schools were White.

Unequal school resources. Because of race and class segregation and its relationship to local school revenues, students in high-poverty racially segregated schools are not exposed to high-quality curricula, highly qualified teachers, or important social networks as often as students in wealthier, predominantly White schools.(2 ) Tammy Johnson. Race, Education and No Child Left Behind. 2003.

The wealthiest 10 percent of U.S. school districts spend nearly 10 times more than the poorest 10 percent, and spending ratios of 3 to 1 are common within states. (3) Jonathan Kozal,2005 http:www.aecf.org/m/resourcedoc/aecf-racemattersEDUCATION-2006.pdf

Once students fall behind, it is difficult to catch up ...

“The seeds of student success are planted in early childhood, and the work to make sure students achieve to their fullest potential continues throughout their schooling.

If we lose students early, we risk losing them entirely.�

http://www.advanceillinois.org/illinois-student-performance-over-time-pages-267.php

The seeds of student success are planted in early childhood

http://www.advanceillinois.org/illinois-student-performance-over-time-pages-267.php ( accessed 2-02-15)

SOURCE: http://www.advanceillinois.org/filebin/swi_2014/FINAL_Report_The_State_Were_In_2014.pdf

Source: Social Impact Research Center 50 years later : Report of Illinois Poverty – January 2014

Chicago’s Public Schools have 1/3 of the States low income students  Chicago’s Public Schools is Illinois largest district and serves roughly one third of the low income students.  As a result its outcomes have an outsized impact on the States overall performance.  Chicago has made notable progress raising achievement and graduation over the past decade

http://www.advanceillinois.org/state-we-re-in--2014-pages-382.php

11% of CPS graduates are College Ready

http://www.advanceillinois.org/state-we-re-in--2014-pages-382.php

Low Performing Schools in Black Communities can no longer be tolerated.

http://educationnext.org/the-race-connection CHICAGO: “Even though black teachers make up less than 30 percent of the teaching force in Chicago , they were hardest hit by the layoffs, the lawsuit states.

For example, of the 347 tenured teachers laid off in 2012, 51 percent were African-American.�

1986 to 2011 Demographic Profile of Teachers in the U.S. VERY LITTLE GROWTH IN BLACK TEACHER % from 1986 to 2011 Action needed: MORE PROGRAMS TO TRAIN BLACK TEACHERS

2011 Demographics of Teachers by Race in the US

EDUCATE vs INCARCERATE • Only 5% of college students in 2008 were Black men.

• At the same time Black men were incarcerated more than any other group at 6.5 times the rate of white males.

More Black women go to college than Black men

HOW ARE THE PEOPLE DOING? HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR # 3

United States “Asian

men and women earned more than their White, Black and Hispanic/Latino counterparts.”

Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2011 US Dept of Labor

What could Black Men do with an extra $313 weekly?

What could Black Women do with an extra $156 weekly?

African Development Plan

THE GREAT DISPARITIES CONTINUE • In fact, after adjusting for inflation, the MEDIAN NET WORTH for Black households in 2011($6,446) was LOWER THAN IT WAS IN 1984 ($7,150), while WHITE households’ net worth was almost 11% HIGHER. • “High-earning married black households have, on average, less wealth than low-earning married white households. “ David Low, NYU . Pew Research African Development Plan

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/08/30/blackincomes-are-up-but-wealth-isnt/

Segregation persists in Chicago where 48 of the 77 communities are MAJORITY MINORITY. THE POOREST COMMUNITIES in Chicago are MAJORITY AFRICAN AMERICAN .

LIQUID ASSET POVERTY RATE 2011 Minority HH 55.9%

IN 2012, 44.6% OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN WERE AFFECTED BY POVERTY

YOUTH

Source: Poor by Comparison Report on Illinois Poverty 2015

Nationwide Black UNEMPLOYMENT rate is consistently TWICE that of whites for the last 6 decades.

And in ILLINOIS the trend continues…

UNEMPLOYMENT in 2013 was: WHITE 7.9%

HISPANIC 11.1%

AA Women 14.9%

BLACK 17%

AA Men 19.6%

The national annual unemployment rate for 2007 was 4.6 percent.

Several Illinois cities, however, had unemployment rates about twice the national rate in 2007.

These cities were already experiencing economic conditions that look like a severe recession before the Great Recession began.

Algernon Austin . March 26,2010 Demographically, these cities are all majority nonwhite‌.

Thus, it is the majority nonwhite cities in Illinois that seem to be most at-risk of suffering from chronic unemployment. http://www.epi.org/publication/unemployment_in_black_and_white/

The HUMAN DEVELOPMENT APPROACH…

HOW ARE THE PEOPLE DOING?

In Illinois NEARLY 1 in 2 BLACK MALES AGE 16-24 UNEMPLOYED

In Chicago, its even worse 92% of black male teens were unemployed in 2013, vs.

83% Nationally.

By BYP @blackyouthproj 1:17 pm January 21, 2014

This high unemployment leads to higher poverty which leads to higher Black on Black violence in our communities.

Black on Black Violence in CHICAGO

The only community impacted disproportionately is the Black Community

We have a CRISIS! What is our SOLUTION?

Our Communities are like WAR ZONES. 2014 Englewood

# 1- “Deadliest Hood”

WHY DOES BLACK LIVES NOT MATTER TO US?

BLACK LIVES NEED TO MATTER And more time is spent debating the title of a movie “CHIRAQ”, than addressing the causes of this violence and possible solutions.

Weekends are a shooting spree.

Daily 3-9pm, Murder and Mayhem

WHO ARE WE PROTECTING? We have to address this

“No Suspect charged”

Who is killing our children?

Why does community not feel comfortable cooperating with law enforcement?

How do we decrease the violence and increase community’s role in policing itself and its children?

We have to address FAMILY STRUCTURES and what the 40 + year “War on Drugs”, aka “War on Black communities” has now created in our Family Structures and Economic bases.

KILLED BY POLICE

As of 6/01/15 508 people nationwide 11 in Illinois since January 2015 5 of whom were Black

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database

KILLED BY POLICE

As of 8/01/15 779 people nationwide 16 in Illinois since January 2015 7 of whom were Black (44%)

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database

MASS INCARCERATION Juvenile Population

AFRICAN AMERICANS make up 15% of the STATE and 33% in Chicago

School House to Jail House

Chicago Public Schools 2012

In 2010 over 5500 youth arrests took place on CPS Property.

In 2011 - 4959 In 2012 - 4287.

SOURCE Juvenile Justice in Illinois : A Data Snapshot. April 2014.

By Mariame Kaba. Project NIA

Black youth are still disproportionately targeted by these arrest.

While representing 42% of CPS students in 2012, they accounted for 75.5% of school based arrests.

This mirrors the general trend of disproportionate minority contact within the juvenile system.

Chicago - Juvenile Arrest DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTS BLACK YOUTH

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/ 03/us/the-race-gap-in-americas-policedepartments.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/ 03/us/the-race-gap-in-americas-policedepartments.html

“The event of an arrest is truly life-altering for anyone taken into police custody and their families. We must work to prevent youth involvement with police and criminal/delinquency court systems.

Despite sensational media reports, however, youth are the minority of people who get arrested.

The Chicago Police Department made 181,669 arrests in 2009 – approximately 17% were of people seventeen and younger (31,224).[1] This statistic should shatter the prevalent characterization of youth as “flash mobs” or as automatically “suspect.” In forming opinions about Chicago’s young people, we should never forget that adults are the ones primarily implicated in the criminal legal system.”

[1]Chicago Police Department 2009 Annual Report; CPD Research and Development Division, Research and Analysis Section (March 11, 2011).

SOURCE: Juvenile Justice in Illinois : A Data Snapshot April 2014 .

Mariame Kaba Project NIA

The DATA presented in this report show that certain community areas in Chicago are disproportionately impacted by juvenile arrests.

• The maps included in the report visually illustrate that juveniles on the South and West sides of Chicago are more likely to find themselves in police custody.

• We know that contact with law enforcement has a negative impact on young people.

• Young people who are arrested may at least temporarily miss school, work, or youth development programming while they are held in police custody.

• Their school and positive extracurricular schedules are further disrupted on each day they are required to appear in court or held in detention, as are their parents’ work and child care responsibilities.

• Youth in trouble with the law consistently struggle in school, have higher levels of mental and emotional trauma, and are likely to recidivate.

• Community members must find new and creative ways to reach young people before they are arrested, or come to the attention of law enforcement.

SOURCE: Juvenile Justice in Illinois : A Data Snapshot April 2014 .

Mariame Kaba Project NIA

Mass Incarceration Adult Population

2006- BLACK WORKING AGE MEN BEHIND BARS LOCKED UP

18 to 64 years

8% or I in 12 incarcerated 20 to 34 years

11.4% or I in 9 incarcerated 20 to 34 years without HS diploma/GED

http://www.pewstates.org/uploadedFiles/PCS_Assets/2010/Collateral_Costs(1).pdf

37.1% or I in 3 incarcerated

Illinois 2011 Prison Population by RACE

BLACKS represent 15% of Population in Illinois BUT COMPRISE 56.7% OF THE PRISON SYSTEM

THE QUESTION IS WHY? What do we need to do to change this?

Illinois 2011 Prison Population

and the Number of Children they leave behind

Over 70,701 children have no father or mother due to incarceration.

WHAT IS THE COST TO OUR COMMUNITY? How does this create GENERATIONAL acceptance of INCARCERATION?

“Our environment cultivates our communities and our communities nurture our health.”

RACISM IMPACTS ALL OF THIS

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ECONOMICS

How long does the $ circulate in the Black Community?

African Americans have a buying power of 1.1 trillion dollars, yet only 2 cents of every dollar a black person spends in America goes to black-owned businesses.

Which is why we have this ‌

http://www.blackyouthproject.com/2014/07/report-asians-keep-a-dollar-in-community-120-longer-than-blacks/

TIF (Tax Increment Finance)Funds were to improve blighted areas by attracting construction and jobs Where TIF has been spent • The Loop • Near North side • Near South Side • Near West Side

$1.56 Billion of the $2.45 Billion spent here

Where TIF spending is need • Pullman • Riverdale • Roseland • West Pullman • Far South side communities where blight is prevalent and economic development is scarce.”

Bob Fioretti

$4.8 Million spent

In Chicago, neighborhoods that are too black don't gentrify August 8, 2014 By: NPR's Gene Demby

“white avoidance”

A new study by Harvard researchers suggests that there's also a racial ceiling to how neighborhoods gentrify, at least in Chicago, the city they examined. Robert Sampson and Jackelyn Hwang found that neighborhoods that are too black tend to stay that way.

"It used to be referred to as 'white flight,'" Sampson said, referring to the postwar years in which whites left big cities as more blacks moved into them. "But we refer to it in the paper as 'white avoidance' — [gentrifiers are] not moving into neighborhoods where there are lots of black people. In Chicago, the [neighborhoods] that are gentrifying are the ones where there was a white working class, or Latinos, but not many blacks."

The researchers started with earlier data showing neighborhoods that appeared to be undergoing gentrification. But when they looked at those same areas more recently, they found that in areas where the population was 40 percent black, that gentrification seemed to grind to a halt. http://www.wbez.org/news/culture/chicago-neighborhoods-are-too-black-dont-gentrify110622

The One Drop rule’ persists Harvard Professors

‌ their work reflects the cultural entrenchment of America’s traditional racial hierarchy, which assigns the highest status to whites, followed by Asians, with Latinos and blacks at the bottom. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/12/%E2%80%98one-drop-rule%E2%80%99-persists/

What you are seeing is a displacement of Black People

C H I C A G O

For comparison,

African American vs Asian Banking assets AFRICAN AMERICAN • There are 23 African American owned banks (AAOBs) with assets totaling approximately $4.8 billion in assets or approximately 0.43 percent of African America’s $1.1 trillion in buying power.

ASIAN • Asian American Owned Banks have approximately $42.1 billion in assets spread over 75 institutions.

• They control 5.9 percent of Asian America’s buying power.

2 Black Banks in Illinois- 2015 • ILLINOIS SERVICE FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN • Location: Chicago, Illinois • Founded: January 01, 1934 • FDIC Region: Chicago • Assets: $113 470 000 • Asset Change (2013): Down 3.7%

• SEAWAY BANK & TRUST COMPANY • Location: Chicago, Illinois • Founded: January 02, 1965 • FDIC Region: Chicago • Assets: $522 353 000 • Asset Change (2014): Down 5.2%

IN SUMMARY

THE FIVE ELEMENTS OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE 1. Genocide by Killing 2. Genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm 3. Genocide by deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction.

4. Genocide by imposing measures intended to prevent births.

5. Genocide by forcibly transferring children www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/elements.htm

THESE ARE SEEN IN • Disproportionate Police Killings • High incarceration of Black people.

• Conditions which lead to disparate health outcomes, including high infant mortality and high maternal mortality.

• Disparate opportunities in education, employment and housing.

• High poverty rates in the Black population.

ASA HILLIARD says: • Real self destructive behavior occurs when we identify so strongly with our oppressors that we do to ourselves the worst that they could do to us.

• That is, rather than wait for our culture to be destroyed, we commit cultural suicide and enter voluntary cultural servitude, uncritically embracing alien cultural forms, even destructive and incoherent ones.

• In the process we lose the “glue” or the “tie that binds” us together as a people.

• At worst group solidarity crumbles in the face of a love affair with individualism, an individualism that loses its cultural mooring.

Source: Asa Hilliard The Maroon within us. Page 129 106

Observable Residual behavior of African Holocaust Victims 1. Lack of knowledge about history, culture, world view, religion, self.

2. Poor self image • Devaluation of dark skin and their natural hair • Placing high value on light skin and flat (straight) hair.

• Alienation from self and community evaluation • Evaluate self and community based on European standards • Over-identification with their oppressors • Imitation and modeling behaviors of their oppressors ( creating Black people who practice internal racism)

3. Unrewarding interpersonal relationships carried over from enslavement 4. Practice of self destructive behaviors by taking out frustrations and anger about racism on self and those who represent self and community.

5. Corollary problems • Leadership named and sanctioned by the Europeans • Genuine leaders killed.

• Community a victim of divide and conquer • Religious images prepares them to worship whites in general

Source: Salmella Abdullah, PhD. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder . A Diagnosis for victims of the 6-05-14 107 African Holocaust United States of America Component

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DISENFRANCHISED CITIZENRY • 40% of the registered voters in Chicago are Black • Over 800,000 of the 1.4 million registered voters in the City of Chicago did not cast a ballot in 2011.

• Many of the non-voting individuals reside in neighborhoods most in need of investments to improve public safety, education, and economic development.

• These neighborhoods have great potential to impact the city’s future.

From: "Luis Carrizales, Community Renewal Society" <Info@communityrenewalsociety.org> Date:01/29/2015 12:30 PM (GMT-06:00) To: Hwilliam@msn.com Subject: Souls Vote: Our Future is at Stake

Will our CRISIS create CHANGE for BLACK PEOPLE in Illinois?

And will our IDEAS be the ones that are implemented?

Patience has its limits, taken too far it’s cowardice.

Fatima Dike From her poem “For a Black Woman”

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CONNECTING THE DOTS …

A 2015 Response to issues facing the Black Community in Chicago, Illinois © A Project of

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