White Woman Walks Chicago Southside With ‘Black America I’m Sorry’ Sign
Laurella Willis wants action and nothing else. The Blue Island resident, which is just outside of Chicago, has been walking 20 miles a day on the city’s Southside with a sign draped over her shoulders that reads, “Black America I’m Sorry” on both sides.
“I don’t want to continue to see Black Americans being oppressed, and held down and killed like animals,” Willis told CBS.
She’s been seen for multiple days now walking throughout the city as passersby take photos and look on in curiosity. One of which was Mark Hunt, a radio personality at WVON 1690, which is located on 87th street, a few blocks east of Cottage Grove Avenue.
“No one put her up to this and she woke up and decided White America there’s a problem and we need to do something about it,” Wallace said.
Hopefully Willis will get people talking about the responsibility everyone has in making this country safer for all who live in it.
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Makes my heart smile <3 she did not create this problem, but at least she's trying to get into the Solution.
History of the black man in America. From my perspective. A 42 year old white woman.
Slavery – Lasted approximately 250 years – 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 people “imported”
Abolition of slavery – Civil rights severely limited
Segregation
End of segregation
Ghettos, in essence – segregation
After Fair Housing Act of 1968, violence arose from black efforts to seek housing in white neighborhoods.
Inner city ghettos formed and became a prevalent fact of urban black life
Chicago, 1949. CHA had proposed sites for projects to be built on open land throughout the city. But aldermen rejected plans for public housing in their wards. Policy thereafter was to build family housing only in black residential areas or adjacent to existing projects.
Black man subdued and isolated in the ghettos and “black neighborhoods”, created own way of living, own language
Containment in ghettos, subliminal and open discrimination, resulted in limited economic opportunities. That lead to:
– Income in inner city ghettos often derived from illegal activities, which resulted in generations of “prisoners” and broken families
– Need for public assistance. Public assistance policies encouraged mothers to remain unwed
Ghettos disbanded, for the most part, now:
– Difficulty integrating cultures after decades of separation
– Fear of the unknown
– Struggle to trust one another
– Lingering subliminal and open discrimination
Knowing history helps understand present. It will not fix everything. But it may open minds, at least enough to understand, when you look at a black man…
That is his history. It was not engineered by him nor his ancestors.
Black American men and women are being used as target practice by a racist police state. Civilization is breaking down in this country. Trump is evidence of that. The oppressors are quite literally insane.