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Jan. 14, 2021 - Epoch Times
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The Truth About Chicago’s Not-So-Magnificent Seven | Larry Elder Show
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Have you heard about The Magnificent Seven?
Of course you have.
This ain't them.
you you you Let's call them Chicago's not-so-magnificent seven.
I mean, we're talking about Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Bill Ayers, Father Flager, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright.
With all that intellectual, moral, and political firepower, why isn't Chicago a shining city on a hill?
We had an incident where there was a party at that address.
Inside, there was a dispute where shots were fired inside, several shots.
The people started to spill out, and I'm going from what I saw in the pod video now.
People started to spill out, and as they spilled out, more shots were fired.
We saw an individual on the pod firing.
At that time, more shots were fired at another location.
So we have about three scenes of different shell cases and different scenes where people shot, but it was right there in that location and stemming from that party.
We have, at this time, 13 victims, ranging in the age from 16 to about 48 years old.
We have about four of them are critical.
The others are stable.
With different and various gunshot wounds to their bodies.
Chicago is the murder capital of the country.
Now, to be fair, on a per capita basis, St.
Louis and Baltimore are even more deadly, almost three times the murder rate of Chicago.
But St.
Louis and Baltimore don't boast seven political heavyweights the way Chicago does.
Let's look at them.
Number one, Barack Obama.
Sweet home, Chicago.
Yeah!
Fifteen-year-old Hydea Pendleton, the latest innocent victim of gun violence in the city of Chicago.
Hydea had just returned from the inauguration in Washington, where she performed with her high school majorette team.
Jada Aiken is the girl next to Hydea in this team photo.
It was a good trip.
Like I said, she was real happy on the trip.
It was a nice place.
She smiled all the time.
She never frowned.
She was never mad.
She was never sad.
On Tuesday afternoon, Idea had just finished a final exam and was with a group of friends avoiding the rain under this park shelter.
Witnesses say a gunman came out from behind this fence and started shooting.
The park where she was killed is one mile from President Obama's home in Chicago.
Number two, Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former chief of staff, and he led the city of Chicago for two terms as mayor.
And when he left, the city's finances remained a disaster.
Thank you, Chicago, for this humbling victory.
All I can say, you sure know how to make a guy feel at home.
Rahm Emanuel is famous for having said that you never let a good crisis go to waste.
Yes, there have been some cuts in the city budget, and they continue to roll out some more.
They're all kind of fairly small, although they add up.
They affect different things, but I will be disappointed if this budget just proposes the world's biggest property tax increase and doesn't use the occasion to really cut some big, big programs.
Number three, Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground terrorist who turned tenured professor of education.
What do you think about the fact that I think you're a terrorist?
What do you think about the fact that I think you're a degenerate who ought to apologize for what you've done?
That's what I think.
That's certainly your opinion.
That's fine.
It doesn't affect me one way or the other.
Obviously not.
You live in a country that apparently has forgiven you, allowed you to go to University of Illinois and teach, and work for the very government that you tried to attack in the 70s.
It's really quite remarkable.
It's quite remarkable that you walk around, your head held high, you try to attack a police building, the Pentagon, the Capitol.
You're not in jail.
You never spend any time in jail.
It's remarkable.
You absolutely have drunk the Kool-Aid, and you think anything your government does has to be terrific.
I'm talking about what you did, Mr.
Ayers.
Lots of people protested the Vietnam War.
Very few people blew up police stations, blew up the Capitol building, blew up the Pentagon.
I understand.
And I never justify it in the book, and I never say that it was terrific, and I admit that we crossed lines of legality.
You never said it was terrific?
Wait a minute.
Never.
Never.
How about saying, I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have done it.
I apologize.
I was wrong.
It was immoral.
It was unjust.
I could have killed somebody.
I was wrong.
How about that, Mr.
Ayers?
Now, Ayers worked with a then-state senator named Barack Obama, and together they spent $100 million in something called the Chicago-Annenberg Challenge in order to turn around inner-city schools.
By their own analysis, the money was wasted.
There were no statistically significant differences in student achievement between Annenberg schools and the demographically similar non-Annenberg schools.
This indicates that there was no Annenberg effect on achievement, end of quote.
Number four, Reverend Louis Farrakhan.
He does talk about self-help and independence and personal responsibility, but then he laces it in with a healthy dose of anti-Semitism.
I don't have no army.
I just know the truth.
And I'm here to separate the good news from the safe time.
Yes, yes, yes!
Number five, Father Michael Flager, the anti-gun guy who believes that the evil NRA and racism are oppressing black people, and he preaches the need for reparations.
Honest enough to address the one who says, well, don't hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.
But you have enjoyed The benefits of what your ancestors did.
And unless you are ready to give up the benefits, throw away your 401 fund, throw away your trust fund, throw away all the money that's been put away and the company you walked into because your daddy and your granddaddy and your greatdaddy.
Unless you're willing to give up the benefits, then you must be responsible for what was done in your generation because you are the beneficiary of this insurance policy.
But paying reparations to all descendants of slaves is a mistake.
Take me, for example.
I was born three decades after the end of Jim Crow into a privileged household in the suburbs.
I attend an Ivy League school.
Yet I'm also descended from slaves who worked on Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation.
So reparations for slavery would allocate federal resources to me, but not to an American with the wrong ancestry, even if that person is living paycheck to paycheck and working multiple jobs to support a family.
You might call that justice.
I call it justice for the dead at the price of justice for the living.
Number six.
Reverend Jesse Jackson, and like many of these so-called leaders who feel that white racism is the number one problem, he is ignoring the elephant in the room, lack of fathers in the home.
We need a White House conference here on violence, causes and cures, racial and gender disparities, poverty, and a plan for urban reconstruction.
The things that I said today that are actually harming black America.
Number one, father absence.
Number two, the education system and the illiteracy rate.
Illegal immigration ranks high, abortion ranks high, white supremacy and white nationalism, if I had to make a list again of 100 things, would not be on it.
Number seven, Barack Obama's longtime former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing God bless America?
No, no, no!
Not God bless America!
God bless America!
That's in the Bible for killing innocent people!
God bless America!
America for treating us citizens as less than human!
God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme!
I know that, um...
While race has been an important detriment to blacks in general historically, I doubt whether it is an important or as important detriment today.
I think for all intents and purposes in the United States that blacks do have their constitutional guarantees, and the problems that blacks face today are not really race.
That is, the civil rights struggle is over and won in the United States, which doesn't mean that all the problems have come to an end, but what it does mean is that they're not civil rights problems.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Chicago's not-so-magnificent seven.
I'm Larry Elder, and this has been the Larry Elder Show for Epoch Times.
I will see you next time.
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