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COVID-19 and the ‘race tax’
The plunder of black wealth has a lot to do with why blacks are dying disproportionately By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
The first time in her life that Liz Abunaw visited a predominantly black neighborhood in Chicago was in September 2016 — a few months before the election of Donald Trump. She had taken the 66 bus into Austin for an errand, but the address seemed so far west that Abunaw, a native of upstate New York, thought she This is the debut of a was going to O’Hare. weekly column contain“I get off the bus at ing my musings on race, the corner of Chicago and Laramie and equity and COVID-19 I’m like, ‘What is this?’ This does not look like the neighborhood near O’Hare,” Abunaw said an interview I conducted with her in February for an oral testimony project the newspaper is developing in coordination with AustinTalks and Austin Coming Together. It was a few months before COVID-19 became the leading cause of death in the United States, hitting African Americans particularly hard. “I get off the bus and I realize I need cash,” Abunaw said. “I’m a cheap person. I really hate corner store ATMs and check cashing places, because they take all your money.” But there was no Chase bank branch anywhere within walking distance. Nor was there a grocery store, where she might have been able to get cash back while purchasing an item. She had no choice but to spend the $4 fee at a nearby ATM. “I think it was at that moment I realized that living in that neighborhood, it costs you not See BLACK WEALTH on page 8
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OPTIMISTIC: Angel Humphrey inside of her North Avenue day spa in February. Humphrey says she’s hoping business kicks back up in a few months.
Black-owned businesses struggle with virus, banks
Angel Humphrey is hopeful her North Avenue spa can recover By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
When Glamour Entertainment Spa and Celebrations, 6717 W. North Ave., opened on Feb. 19, Angel Humphrey
was anticipating a few months of steady business. Her day spa venue — which hosts princess parties for little girls as young as 2, as well as Quinceañeras and Sweet 16’s, along with full spa services like massages for older adults — had secured 14 prom sendoffs. But the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the country in March and business rapidly evaporated. Her spa, deemed nonessential in Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s stay-at-
home order, was forced to temporarily shut its doors. “I had bookings coming in for April and May,” said Humphrey. “May was huge for prom. Then four cancellations turned into seven and seven turned into all of them. This really hit us in the gut.” A story on Humphrey’s new business, scheduled to run in Austin Weekly News the week Oak Park’s stay-at-home order went into effect, was buried in the
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Pritzker announces new job training program
Unemployed Illinoisans to have access to 3,800 free online courses, 400 specializations By REBECCA ANZEL Capitol News Illinois
SPRINGFIELD — Unemployed Illinoisans will soon have access to free, online skills-based training programs. Beginning in June and lasting through the end of the year, 3,800 courses and 400 specializations will be offered by over 160 universities through the online learning platform Coursera, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said last week. Formal certification programs will also be available. This initiative’s aim is to provide skills training for those who lost their jobs due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Pritzker said that is just one way Illinois officials are helping those suffering economically. “It’s critical that our state do everything possible to help our residents get back to work, whether returning to positions they once held or with employers who are seeking to hire,” he said. A “one-stop shop” dedicated to connecting unemployed residents with jobs is now available at illinois.gov/gethired. The governor said it is a “hub” for those looking to participate in online career fairs, for example. “The financial stability and success of our residents are key to getting Illinois’ economy back on its feet,” Pritzker said. “Illinois won’t be restored until our workers and families have the opportunities and resources they need to build and fill in their lives, and I won’t rest until we see that mission through.” He added his administration is encouraging employers to use the resource to post jobs. Pritzker said the Illinois Department of Employment Security received more than 50,000 applications for federal pandemic unemployment assistance in the first three days of the program, although the official number of claims filed will not be announced until May 21, per federal government rules. The department processed over 1,076,000 other unemployment claims from March 1 through May 9, the governor added. That is “about six times” as many the department processed during the first months of the Great Recession in 2008. CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com
PREPPING: Saint Anthony Hospital set up a testing tent outside to help handle the influx of COVID-19 patients. Provided
West Side Hospital has 15-minute COVID-19 test machine on hand
But Saint Anthony doesn’t have the resources to use it By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago
When Saint Anthony Hospital was gifted the ID NOW testing machine, they expected it to be a game changer. The hospital previously had been forced to wait up to two weeks for COVID-19 test results due to overburdened labs. The new machine could diagnose a patient in five to 15 minutes. But for weeks, the testing machine has sat unused in Saint Anthony’s lab. Hospital officials said they cannot get all the proper components to operate it. “That machine is just sitting there, looking pretty,” said Chief Medical Officer Dr. Romeen Lavani. The hospital was gifted the $30,000 machine on Easter weekend by MedGlobal, a health nonprofit affiliated with doctors and administrators at Saint Anthony. The hospital ordered the software and chemical reagents needed to run the tests two weeks before the machine arrived so they would be ready to hit the ground running, but they still have not received them. Abbott Laboratories, the company that produces the point-of-care rapid test machine, says they are not experiencing any shortage of the test supplies. Abbott currently producing 50,000 test kits per day, which includes the reagents and swabs needed to run a test, according to a company statement. By June, the company expects to ramp up production to 2 million test kits per month. “We’re providing ID NOW COVID-19 tests to federal, state and local governments, in addition to our customers (largely hospital emergency rooms and urgent care clinics,)” the company said in a statement. “…The majority of these
tests have been sent to outbreak hotspots and we’ve asked that customers prioritize frontline health care workers and first responders.” Lavani said Saint Anthony should be a priority for receiving testing supplies since the hospital serves an especially vulnerable population of Black and Latino people. The proportion of patients testing positive for the virus at Saint Anthony Hospital also is far higher than the statewide average. According to Lavani, about 20 percent of people tested are confirmed to have COVID-19, but at Saint Anthony, the rate is upwards of 50 percent. Clinicians cannot treat patients they cannot properly diagnose, nor can they offer effective medical advice on how to prevent the spread of the disease. Inefficient testing options are also a drain on the hospital’s resources, Lavani said. Without being able to quickly confirm whether a patient has the infection, the already under-resourced safety net hospital is forced to dedicate scarce nursing staff and medical supplies on patients who may not even have the highly contagious virus. “You must do all the things you would do with a COVID patient: put them in isolation, use (personal protective equipment), have the staffing requirements that you would need for a COVID patient. …Now you’re using PPE for 10 days. Let’s say the test comes back negative after 10 days, then essentially you wasted PPE which is so precious right now,” Lavani said. As a safety net hospital, Saint Anthony has few resources to spare. About 70 percent of their patients are insured through Medicaid. The state’s Managed Care Organizations contracted to handle those payments owe the hospital over $30 million, hospital administrators say. That precarious financial position makes it all the more important for the hospital to be efficient with its resources, a
balancing act that Lavani said the hospital is managing well despite the challenges. Though Abbott denies there is a shortage of components needed to run the test machine, Saint Anthony’s lab director Ron Longino said the hospital has been forced to wait for the company to send the reagents and the software because there are no other alternatives on the market that are compatible with the machine. “It’s proprietary,” Longino said, adding that colleagues at other hospitals across the country are in a similar situation of having an unusable testing machine. Palos Hospital in suburban Palos Heights is struggling with the same issue. They have the ID NOW test machine, but it is entirely unusable because they can’t get a hold of the reagents needed to use it. Longino also ordered two additional ID NOW testing machines along with the software and reagents in late March that have yet to arrive. In order to maintain the high quality of care at Saint Anthony, the hospital began a partnership with the University of Chicago Medical Center that will allow some priority patients to get results much more quickly than the ones being sent to LabCorps — which can take over a week. Longino said the university medical center can produce test results in 12 to 24 hours. Despite the help from the university, Lavani said Saint Anthony will be in a much better position when they finally get can finally get their own testing machine up and running. “Our concern is that we have this expensive machine that got donated to us that we could easily use and do a lot more testing which would be much quicker… and we just see this being wasted,” Lavani said. Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago. CONTACT: pascal@blockclubchi.org
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Glassblowing studio goes virtual
The art center uses glassblowing and ceramics as a medium for healing trauma By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago
A West Side ceramics and glassblowing studio is launching a free weeklong virtual art experience for neighbors struggling during the coronavirus pandemic. The event series will also mark the debut of the studio’s new name, Firebird Community Arts. Normally, the art center uses glassblowing and wheel throwing as a medium for healing for young people who have experienced trauma. That pain has been further exacerbated by coronavirus. Looking to help, Firebird Community Arts is using its virtual events as a way to share its trauma-informed programming with families who can benefit from the same therapeutic practices that have helped people on the West Side on their healing journeys. In one of the virtual events, Project Fire youth will have a group discussion with clinical psychologist Dr. Bradley Stolbach about the importance of staying connected while social distancing. The conversation will provide a chance for young people to share how they navigate their thoughts and emotions through trying times so viewers can learn ways to cope with the isolation brought on by the pandemic. “We go through way worse of trauma than just this pandemic,” said Project Fire alumnus Deaunata Holman. Holman said home is not a safe place for many people, which makes social distancing especially hard. That’s why it has been so helpful to have supportive relationships and an outlet to talk about experiences and emotions, he said. “And we all help each other get over our
situations,” Holman said. “It’s like having a group of brothers and sisters.” Other events in the series will guide viewers through creative practices that can help them learn how to manage stress, isolation and anxiety. Viewers can tune into a ceramics and flamework demonstration to get a taste of some of the workshops hosted by Firbird Community Arts. One session will include an interactive bookbinding demonstration that will show how residents stuck at home can make their own journal from scratch. During another workshop, an artist will share meditative sketching techniques that activate different parts of the brain. Several events will also feature a short yoga session to help viewers relax and relieve tension.
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The center’s flagship program, Project Fire, combines glassblowing and ceramics with trauma training and group discussions led by social workers to help young people understand how their minds, bodies and emotions cope with the trauma they have experienced. The program also offers employment opportunities for the young people who have participated, allowing them to lead workshops and teach glassblowing. Some of the virtual events will be led by former participants of Project Fire so their skills can support people struggling with the stress of the pandemic. “Through their own experience and their trauma training with Project Fire, they have sort of become experts at processing
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trauma,” said Karen Reyes, executive director of Firebird Community Arts. “Which, in a different way than the trauma they experienced initially, has become a really important skill for the general public these days in the pandemic. “All these skills and practices that we’ve been developing … are now becoming relevant way outside of our niche population. We felt that that was something that we can share with people.” The digital events are each day through May 15 and can be accessed on Firebird Community Arts’ Facebook page. Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago. CONTACT: pascal@blockclubchi.org
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40+ Chicago media outlets launch joint fundraiser
Unprecedented collaboration includes community and ethnic media from across the city By STAFF
Facing substantial drops in advertising revenue, 43 independent Chicago media outlets have joined forces to raise funds in a monthlong campaign in May and early June. The for-profit and nonprofit organizations represent a wide cross-section of authentic community media in the city and nearby suburbs. Growing Community Media, publisher of Wednesday Journal, Austin Weekly News, Forest Park Review and Riverside-Brookfield Landmark, is among the participants. The public can give at savechicagomedia. org through June 5. The website offers the option to donate one amount to be split among all of the outlets, or donors can select one or more outlets to give a specific amount to. Dan Haley, publisher of Growing Community Media, said, “While we actively are working to grow donations to our own newsroom, we ask our readers to consider making a donation to this effort which is
shared across all 43 of these worthy efforts in independent community journalism.” “We who are in independent media find ourselves in a unique and dangerous economic situation,” said Tracy Baim, publisher of the Chicago Reader. “In response to COVID-19, national news outlets are tallying death tolls and assessing the situation globally. While that coverage is important, it leaves the average citizen confused and unsure of how to proceed within their community.” The campaign is being coordinated by the Chicago Independent Media Alliance (CIMA), a project launched in 2019 by the Chicago Reader. Sixty media companies and nonprofit newsrooms belong to CIMA, which is coordinating grants, advertising, and editorial projects to assist in strengthening the local media landscape. CIMA’s goal is to lift all boats through partnerships. Donations are not tax deductible, but those wishing to provide money to a pooled matching fund can donate to The Chicago Independent Media Alliance 2020 Matching Fund at the Crossroads Fund. Several foundations have already committed to donating to the matching fund, and full details on the match will be available in mid-May. The campaign hashtag is #SaveChicagoMedia.
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GROWING LESSONS: Mike Trout, founder of YMEN, growing pepper seedlings in his home to give to neighborhood kids. Provided
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The Young Men’s Educational Network’s pepper project is teaching young people about agriculture, business and more By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago
Young people on the West Side are growing hot chili peppers as a cash crop to earn some spare pocket money for the summer. The pepper project was organized by the Young Men’s Educational Network as a way to give young folks some extra cash while also teaching them an important lesson on urban agriculture. The chilis will be brewed into hot sauce by Small Axe Peppers, a New York company that sources peppers for its sauces from local gardens across the country to help the gardens finance themselves and support the surrounding community. Urban agriculture has been a core part of YMEN after school programming in North Lawndale for over five years. The organization transformed a vacant lot at Cermak Road and Avers Street into a community garden where YMEN runs programs that give young people jobs and teaches them to become stewards of the community.
The partnership with Small Axe Peppers will give people in North Lawndale another entry point into urban agriculture that can show them the value of growing food, while also building up entrepreneurship skills. “Part of it is really trying to help us find ways to grow work ethic in these young men, give them some meaningful employment and also give them an opportunity to see the fruits of their labors,” said Marcus Thorne, executive director of operations at YMEN. Small Axe Peppers sent YMEN the seeds, which they began cultivating indoors months ago. Now that that the risk of frost has passed, YMEN have been giving the seedlings to young people in the neighborhood through a partnership with the Chicago West Side Christian School. Students at the school were given two pepper seedlings they could take and grow at their homes. Teacher Carey Trout worked the peppers into her earth science curriculum as a hands-on lesson about the biosphere. Classes learned how to nurture the seedlings indoors and eventually plant in the ground outside. Late in the summer when the time comes to harvest, students will be able to choose what to do with their bounty of hot peppers. The young people can use the peppers to make food or hot sauce with their families, or they can sell the peppers 3 inches or bigger back to YMEN for 50 cents each. “When they came into the school to pick up the pepper plants, they were so excited.
Many of them didn’t realize there was a profit associated with it,” said Carey Trout, who is the wife of YMEN Founder Mike Trout. “For many of them it was the delight of being able to do something useful, and creating something that they can eat.” Trout said giving young folks an opportunity to earn cash allows them to see themselves as entrepreneurs and explore new possibilities in the food economy. “Young people can develop these skills and see that there’s money in it, and take ownership over it. To see that when they are diligent, their hard work pays out in the end,” she said. Eighth-grader Corey said he’s not doing it for the cash, though the money doesn’t hurt. The peppers are Corey’s first time gardening, and he is excited about the responsibility it takes to care for a plant and watch it grow. He dreams of one day starting an Italian restaurant, so he wants to learn what it’s like to grow a vegetable that will one day become food. “I’m excited to grow the peppers because that’s responsibility on my end. I want to learn to grow my own one day and maybe start a business,” Corey said. YMEN has given out approximately 120 plants to young people in Lawndale. They will be planting around 380 additional chili seedlings at a new site where the organization is developing another community garden at Springfield and Avers avenues. The garden will be tended by participants of YMEN’s
youth programs, and all chilis grown at the garden and bought from the students will be sold to Small Axe Peppers to be made into hot sauce. “The gain for us, even though we won’t gain financially, is to have students learning how to grow peppers, or grow anything really,” Thorne said. “So it’s an opportunity for them to learn something about entrepreneurship.” In spite of YMEN’s pepper plant project, Thorne lacks a green thumb and said his home is where plants go to die. But he has been learning more about horticulture and encouraging young community members to do the same because Thorne recognizes the importance of being connected to the production of food, especially in areas like Lawndale that lack food access and are vulnerable to food shortages in times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many Lawndale residents, Thorne is just one generation removed from southern relatives who were farmers. “We feel so far removed from these things that my grandparents found essential. For me, it’s about being self-sustaining. It’s about knowing where your food comes from, being able to sustain ourselves and pass this knowledge on to new generations,” Thorne said. Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago. CONTACT: pascal@blockclubchi.org
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ANGEL HUMPHREY Seeking assistance from page 1 onslaught of COVID-19 coverage. When she spoke with Austin Weekly News on May 8, Humphrey’s optimism was tinged with a frank assessment of the reality facing her establishment, which she co-founded with her husband, Robert, who owns one of the largest gaming truck enterprises in the Chicago area. “It’s been a struggle to be honest,” she said. “Initially, I thought I was going to fold, but I’ve been able to sustain business. I’ve had generous customers purchasing small gift cards, which makes a small difference. They don’t replace our income, but they show that people care about businesses in the North Avenue district and in Oak Park.” Humphrey said she had hoped to be back open by May 1, but “as the days go by, it gets harder and harder to decide if I’ll have to close my doors permanently.” Nonetheless, she said she’s still hopeful that she’ll recover quickly as soon as the business opens back up. Meanwhile, Humphrey said, she’s been offering Zoom etiquette parties and launched a line of Glam Boxes about two weeks ago. The boxes include “glam essentials” for girls and preteens — things like slippers, nail polish, arts-and-crafts materials and glam pink sponges — that customers can order from her store’s website. Although she missed the first round of the federal government’s Personal Protection Program funding — which provided small businesses with loans, mainly for payroll expenses — she’s currently applying for the second round. If she can secure some meaningful assistance from the government, she may have entrepreneurs like Stacey HawkinsArmstrong to thank, at least in part. Like Humphrey, Hawkins-Armstrong is an African-American female entrepreneur. Unlike Humphrey, though, HawkinsArmstrong is less hopeful about the federal government. Last month, Hawkins-Armstrong, who
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PIVOTING: Humphrey is adjusting to the new COVID-19 normal by offering Zoom etiquette parties and has also launched a line of Glam Boxes. owns and manages Sha-Poppin Gourmet Popcorn in nearby Westchester, applied for first-round PPP funding through JP Morgan Chase, where she’s banked for 20 years. Her attempts proved futile. She kept encountering an error message while going through the application process on Chase’s online portal. During an interview last month, HawkinsArmstrong the error messages “continued for days, several times a day.” Eventually, the business owner said she got a call from a Chase Midwest vice president who “was apologetic that my application didn’t go through. Her answer was, if I wanted, I could change banks and she’d understand, which was really unacceptable to me. It lets me know that they really don’t care.” She ended up applying for a PPP loan through a much smaller institution — Seaway, a division of Self-Help Federal Credit Union — and successfully secured
$6,000, though it is much less than she needs. Meanwhile, Ruth’s Chris, a company with annual revenue of $450 million, 5,700 employees and 150 locations across the country received two $10 million PPP loans. The company eventually returned the loans after public outrage. State Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch (7th), whose district spans parts of River Forest and who represents Hawkins-Armstrong, even created a Change.org petition to demand that Chase and other large banks “treat black and brown businesses equitably during the COVID-19 crisis.” “I’m encouraging folks to boycott big banks until they remove their restrictive policies that keep these funds from small businesses — especially small businesses of color,” Welch said last month. In late April, Hawkins-Armstrong filed a federal class action lawsuit against Chase, alleging that it gave preferential treatment to
larger clients like Ruth’s Chris, which is also mentioned as a co-defendant in the lawsuit. Last month, Hawkins-Armstrong said she’s hoping more west suburban small business owners who felt like they got stiffed by Chase would reach out to her and join her lawsuit. Humphrey said she’ll take her chances applying for PPP through U.S. Bank, where she has some history, but added that she nonetheless supports Hawkins-Armstrong’s effort. “I actually have to really applaud Stacey for that,” Humphrey said. “I think a lot of businesses were in the background really cheering her on. When you award larger corporations and give them priority over small business, which are the heartbeat of Illinois and the country, what does that say about America?” CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com
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BLACK WEALTH Historical patterns from page 1 having resources,” said Abunaw, who at the time was working for Microsoft and living in a condo in West Town. “Everything costs more. That makes no sense. I see single family houses here. There are homeowners here. Where do you go to the bank? Where do you go to the grocery store? This is absolutely ridiculous.” Abunaw would go on to found Forty Acres Fresh Market, which hosts popup produce markets and delivers fresh fruits and vegetables to residents on the West Side and in the west suburbs, including Oak Park. The name of her business evokes Union General William T. Sherman’s famous Field Order 15, which promised freed slaves a mule and up to 40 acres of land confiscated from their former masters. In 1865, Congress turned Sherman’s field order into the Freedman’s Bureau Act, which provided “that each negro might have forty acres at a low price on long credit.” But unlike the Homestead Acts — a series of laws passed from 1850 into the 1930s that allowed whites to claim land owned by the federal government as their own — the federal government never made good on the promises codified in the Freedman’s Bureau Act. The land given to the slaves was eventually returned to their former masters, who then built the Jim Crow system in the South. While Congress was attempting to get the Freedmen’s bill passed into law, President Andrew Johnson said that the bill “was advantaging blacks over whites and that it was time for blacks to fend for themselves,” according to Mehrsa Baradaran’s “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap.” “‘It is earnestly hoped that instead of wasting away, they will by their own efforts, establish for themselves a condition of respectability and prosperity.’ Johnson claimed that the laws of capitalism and free trade would allow the freemen to accumulate land without any special help from the state,” Baradaran writes. By the way, Johnson said this while whites were benefitting from the Homestead Acts, while “the government was in the process of confiscating and distributing millions of acres of land for railroad expansion” and while “banks were also being supported by public taxes in order to induce them to extend credit to the South.” Blacks could not have land, Baradaran explains, not only because it was “politically unpopular,” but also because the government was controlled by powerful interests whose wealth was dependent on the cheap black labor needed to grow cotton, which was still an extravagant source of national dynamism even after the Civil War. There is a direct line of descent from the cotton economy that made blacks into
slaves and sharecroppers, to the finance economy that has made blacks into subprime borrowers and salient targets for COVID-19. At every inflection point along that historical continuum, blacks have been a source of wealth for white society to exploit. Moreover, and this is critically important, the very remedies that, at certain points in history, more enlightened whites have proposed to address the exploitation have themselves been tools for further exploitation and predation. Take, for instance, the Freedmen’s Savings Bank. ank. Founded in 1865, pamphlets phlets promoting the bank at the time described it ass “Abraham Lincoln’s Gift to the Colored People.”” But the bank wasn’t actually a bank in the traditional sense. Instead of lending to freedmen in order for them to grow businesses or purchasee property, Baradaran explains, the bank simply collected the freedmen’s savings and served as a “teaching institution” designed to “instruct freed slaves about American values and ‘to instill into the minds ds of the untutored Africans lessons of sobriety, wisdom, and economy.’” Within a decade of its founding, the bank had collected more than “$75 million of deposits by more than 75,000 depositors, an amount that would be approximately $1.5 billion today.” Despite freedmen comprising virtually all of the depositors, they were not represented in the bank’s management. And they had no say in how the money was invested. In 1870, the bank’s managers persuaded Congress to “amend and deregulate its charter,” effectively turning it into a private investment bank. But soon after
deregulation, instead of investing the deposits of those freed slaves into black businesses or property that would allow African Americans to begin wealth-building after two centuries of slavery, “the bank managers” — the very people who were preaching the value of financial sobriety and wisdom to the freed slaves — “began speculating in real estate and then, quite simply, a close ring of managers with unfettered discretion plundered the savings of the freedmen.” Those investments began to unravel in the Panic of 1873, which precipitated the bank’s free fall. In March 1874, “in a last ditch effort to save the bank,” the trustees made Frederick Douglass F iits president. After lending the bank le “$10,000 of his own “$ money to cover m the bank’s illiquid assets,” Douglass ass quickly figured out qui the ruse and alerted Congress to the bank’s Con insolvency, declaring inso “that he ‘could no longer longe ask [his] people to deposit their money dep in it.’” The bank was shut down for f good in 1874, but not before “more than half ha of accumulated black wealth disappeared we through [the bank’s] mismanagement.” Aren’t Lindsay, the author of the 1929 book The Negro as a Business Man, said “what is most lamentable is the fact that only a few of those who embezzled and defrauded the one time liquid assets of this bank were ever prosecuted.” Just as white bank managers benefited from a system that exploited the wealth of freed slaves, white homeowners have benefitted from what Baradaran calls a “Jim Crow credit market,” wherein blacks (even professional blacks) would be relegated to urban ghettos full of renters and dilapidated houses, cut off from the
long-term, low-interest mortgages that made the American Dream of a white picket fence realizable even for blue-collar whites. What’s more, as sociologist Dalton Conley has stated, housing in white communities is worth more “precisely because it is not Black housing.” In her book Race for Profit: How Banks and the “Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership,” Keeanga-Yamahta Taylor reminds us that “In the strange mathematics of racial real estate, Black people paid more for the inferior condition of their housing. They referred to this costly differential as a ‘race tax.’” Race taxes abound in American society, as Abunaw learned during her first trip to Austin in 2016. And in a pandemic, the taxes increase. The CTA may have suspended transit fees during the pandemic, but having to rely on a city bus to go to work as a frontline worker is still a form of double taxation. And blacks are disproportionately exposed to those risks precisely because of the color of our skin. Framed in this way, some recommendations and proposals for confronting the race-based inequities that COVID-19 has only exacerbated sound trite and a bit condescending. For instance, the New York Times Editorial Board, recognizing the problem of residential segregation as a main factor in mass social inequity, argued in a recent piece that the only viable solution is to build more affordable housing in affluent neighborhoods for low-income people to rent. When I read that Times editorial, I thought of the promise of Forty Acres and of the Freedmen’s Savings Bank. If I’m an African American who was born and raised in Austin, and I know, if not consciously then intuitively, that I was born with a debt burden and a tax burden that was created for the sake of another group’s wealth, how am I to take the New York Times telling me that the “only viable solution” for bettering the lot of the place and the people I love is persuading some unknown entities to build affordable rentals in affluent neighborhoods? The bigwigs must do better than this. CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com
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am sick of covid-19! Two and a half months ago, the thought of being housebound for two months, able to work on all the projects I’ve always wanted to accomplish, was a welcoming thought. But after being self-quarantined for two months, with only occasional ventures out to the grocery store, I’m bored and lazy. I started doing a deep clean of my kitchen. However, every time I went down there prepared to spend hours doing work, it was too cold. My kitchen is comfortable when all I’m doing is cooking. But spending hours down there cleaning out cabinets and polishing wood was not enough of a reason to turn on the basement furnace to heat up the entire first floor. So I did what I could each time and quickly retreated back upstairs to the
warmth of my bedroom. I have a bad habit of putting dishes in the sink to soak and then leaving them overnight. Then each morning I would refill the sink and actually wash the dishes. Part of the reason is that I have wonderful hot water pressure everywhere throughout my house except in the kitchen. It would take over a half hour for the sink to fill. The other day I went to empty the sink and my worst nightmare occurred. The sink wouldn’t drain! I removed the dishes and attempted to plunge the drain. But all that did was send nasty gunk into the other sink. I came back upstairs, disgusted with myself because I know that I had put some stuff down the sink I shouldn’t have. And without good hot water pressure, that stuff
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didn’t move through my pipes and was probably the reason the sink clogged. The water finally did go down, but it took all night. When I ran fresh water in the sink, it again filled up, and this time it wasn’t going anywhere. My normal handyman wasn’t available and I am sure during this pandemic that repair people are charging premium amounts to come into your home. It’s a scary thought because you don’t know what they are bringing in and they don’t know what you have. Finally, I called my handyman and got some free advice. Now all I had to do was follow it! I also watched a couple of YouTube videos. I already knew that stuff like Drano is an absolute no-no. I have an auger, so I removed the P-Trap from the sink and began to snake it through my pipes. I even put a bit of masking tape on the auger cable which was approximately the distance between the main drain wall and the middle
of the sink. It took three tries, but I got all the gook out, which included two stems from cherries. I haven’t had cherries since last summer. Those stems prove what we send down the sink doesn’t disintegrate at a rapid pace. And since I was under the sink, I also disconnected the hot water line. Just as I suspected, little pieces of rock had clogged the line, preventing the water from flowing through. I cleaned all of that out, and reattached the line, and turned on the hot water. OMG my hot water was no longer trickling! It was a nice steady flow. I let it run for five minutes to make sure the sink’s draining line was clear. It was! Boy was I proud. I probably saved over $100 doing the work myself. Common sense along with PVC piping made the job much easier. Female homeowners, unless you have the money to always pay somebody, they are things you have to learn to do yourself!
Being black in America is tiring By JOHN FOUNTAIN III AustinTalks
In the words of comedian Trevor Noah, “Racism is still an essential business.” These last few days have been more emotionally exhausting for me than the rest of this quarantine period. I learned that a friend of my friend’s daughter, a young black male, died by suicide. I saw videos of two, unarmed black men being murdered. I argued about the validity of the black church in communities that still suffer from the same adverse conditions since 1968. I questioned this allegiance to Christianity after over 400 years and still holding on to a white savior. Being black in America is tiring. It is exhausting. They love our culture, but not us. They are the gun-toting, God-fearing, Second Amendment-flaunting, pro-lifers, confederate flag-waving, ignorant white people. I am tired of going to a boardroom meeting and defending the lack of resources for black people.
I am tired of constantly having this debate about white people thinking “I made it.” I keep writing about the same issues because we act like America woke up to the disparities that still plague black and brown lives. Your hoodie didn’t help. Your run for Ahmaud didn’t work. We are still dying at the hands of racist white people that won’t mind their f*cking business. No more BBQ Beckys. All lives don’t matter until black lives matter. I’m starting to sound like a voicemail recording. I’ve advocated for justice and the responsibility of elected officials to remain accountable for our communities. Writing this column is my main coping skill. Black and brown communities have experienced a spike in suicides. Jesus still hasn’t returned. Karen still wants to call police on innocent black people. The media neglects the controversy until a video is released. Explain to me how black people can get a fair shake?
Even my TikTok feed was littered with the reminder that black lives don’t matter. I am f*cking tired. I am drained. Not only do I have to deal with the consequences of my decisions but of those that certain members of society put on me. There is no break for the black person. This constant re-traumatization gets too much. Ahmaud Arbery was our uncle, son, grandson, nephew, cousin and brother. That young man who died by suicide felt the pressure that most people will not talk about. I have been that youth and man that considered suicide as an option. I have felt the disconnect coupled with the mounting pressure of a white society that was not created for me to exist harmoniously. My heart goes out to the youth who do not have the support of teachers, counselors, nurses and principals that have maintained them through the rough time of adolescence. My
time at the state’s CARES/SASS hotline taught me how important they are. We juxtapose this idea of youth and leaders, but we are not giving our future the support they need to be productive. I have a brother who is experiencing isolation away at college and facing an unprecedented time. I call him, financially support him as best I can, but most importantly, I make sure he is not alone. These times are highlighting the best and worst of America. We must know what side we are on. It was never black people telling white people how to treat us. It was always black allies that loved us first and culture second. Jeremiah ended his life. My heart and condolences goes out to his family and friends affected. Mental illness is real. Say his name. Check on your children. CONTACT: austintalks.org@gmail.com
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REAL ESTATE FOR SAL IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE F/K/A NORWEST BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR RENAISSANCE HEL TRUST 2004-1; Plaintiff, vs. JASPER HALL; CITY OF CHICAGO; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 18 CH 12601 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, June 11, 2020 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auc-
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tion to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-13-412-001-0000. Commonly known as 801 South California Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Law Clerk at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 3609455. W18-1542 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3150338
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING Plaintiff, -v.MARIA GLIBKA A/K/A MARIA GLIBCA, PETRO GLIBKA, ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CITY OF CHICAGO, CAVALRY PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 19 CH 06878 1912 SOUTH HOMAN AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60623 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 29, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on June 5, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South
Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1912 SOUTH HOMAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60623 Property Index No. 16-23-418-0380000 The real estate is improved with a gray stone, two story single family home with no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle
the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE
WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial
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