Chicago Way w/John Kass: A manifesto on baby Capones and Christopher Columbus
Chicago Way w/John Kass (08/07/23): John Kass & Jeff Carlin are looking for answers and statues after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson calls a mob young people looting a convenience store ‘baby Al Capones’ while remaining silent on the fate of three Christopher Columbus statues that were torn down in the dead of night over 3 years ago. Check out more Kasso at JohnKassNews.com
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I listened to the podcast. Why won’t Johnson give the statue back? You don’t know why? Why is he going easy on the punks in the city?
The people who want the Columbus statue restored, or even given to the Italian “community” did not vote for Johnson. Johnson’s benefactors, the CTU, and Toni Taxwinkle, think you’re all racists anyway. Most of you are, but that’s besides the point.
This is elitism and power at its best, or worse, and a scumbag like Columbus is falsely hoisted as a hero, but the carnage is ignored by all sides in this argument.
If he was classy, Johnson would give the statue to Ron Onesti’s group and they could put it in the Italian American Hall of Fame. But he’s not smart. He is a racist and this is soft power he’s using to pay back for any real or perceived slight he’s received at the hands of the racists. You see, he’s become successful despite his handicap of being born non white.
There’s not a lot of class on either side of this fight as far as I can see. Why you waste time on Columbus is beyond me. Why not fight for public financing of campaigns, easier referendum process, a constitutional convention so we can attack this pension mess.
Why not go after the Catholic Church whose priests have been buggering kids for decades in the Chicago area and who pay no tax!
I was taught in school that Columbus was a hero. I didn’t learn I til later that he died a disgrace in jail. I also learned he was brutal to his men, and they raped and plundered the natives and gave them diseases.
Was his voyage a remarkable undertaking? Sure. But he was the just one of the first white guys to come here. I’m certainly glad he did as I wouldn’t be here. This country is still a pretty good place to live if you’ve got a few bucks, a home, and a subscription to John Kass News.
Both sides can be true. History isn’t neat and clean, even the history of your people. We are allowed to disagree, are we not?
It stinks that he’s keeping the statue, but it stinks more that he thinks coddling and empowering punks and charlatans is the best path forward for the city.
Anyone who’s ever achieved anything knows that the best way is never the easy way. Kass own career is a case in point. It wasn’t a straight line, there were some bumps on the road, and you had to humble yourself and take some risks to get where you ended up, on the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board. And now this new venture, where you will have a nice income stream and publish your fine contributors.
Look what you did. Had been taught you were a victim, that you didn’t have to work hard, that education want important. That family is important above all else and hard work is expected, you’d never have scaled the heights you have.
Brandon Johnson doesn’t love these young people. If he did, he’d be harder on them and have higher expectations. There is still racism out there, but it will only hold you back if you let it. History is messy and subject to interpretation and contextualized. We have many other Italians we can look to for inspiration. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are still great figures, despite owning slaves.
It can all be true. We should teach the history, all of it, and let people decide for themselves. That’s what education is and it’s a lifelong journey.
Yikes. A gent who understands that history is messy, etc., should be capable of writing something a little bit more measured about Columbus and not reeking of amateurish presentism. And the gratuitous cheap shot against my Church is duly noted. By the way, Columbus did not die in prison.
The lengths that the Church went to in order to cover up the abuse speaks volumes.
God did not do these things. It was men. And those who were in charge and had a duty to protect the vulnerable did not.
Even Pope John Paul II has taken heat for being too trusting of those beneath him to deal with this administrative issue.
You all cry out about some stupid movie, but don’t want to make the government actually something. This is the same passivity with which we treated the church.
Hurting kids is wrong, no matter if it’s fancy robed priests or some Democratic political hack with lousy policy.
Again, I can walk and chew gum at the same time. The church and the men in it are corrupt. God is not.
I have a personal relationship with God and do not need an overeducated sexually frustrated fancy boy to tell me what’s what.
I also object to purity tests. To be of the right or left, you must agree with every single policy, issue, the groupthink.
The Democrats in Dearborn found out how shaky their “equity” is when they elected an Arab majority on their city council.
No Pride week, no gay flag for you!
Ha!
Serves them right.
The church needs to stand up for those who were abused and all the gay clergy in their midsts, and stop worrying about outlawing abortion.
The 15 week Alabama law would have been a nice compromise, and with social services, counseling, financial support, maybe more young ladies could be persuaded to give life rather than take it.
I’d like to tell my Catholic priest pedophile story. I can easily tell it as my parents saved me from a lifelong mental problem because of sex abuse.
When I was in 7th or 8th grade the pedophile priest (no point in naming him, he’s dead) came up to me as I walked the street in front of the church. He said, Let’s do a walking confession. I said OK and we proceeded down the side street of the church. I confessed all my sins, swore 3 times, disobeyed my parents 4 times, had an impure thought twice, etc, etc. Then the priest changed the narrative and asked me if I play with my penis?!!! Well no I said (still too young). He went on with this subject and I had no idea what he was talking about. He then said, We should talk more about this and I should come to the rectory Saturday at 5pm to have further discussion about this. Stage was set. Come Saturday I’m walking out the door at 4:45 and my parents asked where I was going. Told them, I’m going to meet with Father …. at the rectory. Both parents in tandem said, NO!!!! You are not going!!! They knew even back then. And that was the end of it. Saved from a terrible fate!
30 years later I’m at a bar for a class re union. The pedophile priest had died a few days before. So I’m telling a short version of the story at the bar and 3 people listening at the bar speak up and say, He hit on you too! So, he has history. 60 years have past and I’m thoroughly convinced that all Catholic priests are either gay or pedophiles! The story the nuns told us, that the priests don’t marry , Because they are married to Jesus and have a higher calling, was a story we believed as children. As I was growing up and constantly horny as a teenager and beyond, I always thought, how can priests not want a sex partner? Well now we know.
Keep your children and grandchildren away from priests!!!
Thanks to my deceased parents for saving me from this life destroying event!
i’ll say this again. you want to write a column Mr Maitino, then write your own. your comments are insightful, sometimes they hurt. I wonder if you’re defeating your own purpose by filing several posts at once.
You might consider one post. I’ll never infringe and tell you what to say or think. I’m not a woke editor. But one post per topic seems fair, because I want all to feel welcome
You may have noticed another reader has abused his privilege and has been ruled in violation of policy. He won’t be coming back. Your voice has value sir. Please don’t abuse the privilege.
thanks for considering what I’ve said.
John Kass
Thanks for calling him out. It’s so obvious that he’s using your columns as a platform for his verbose drivel.
Mr. Maitino is an insufferable windbagging scold as his present post – as well as past posts – prove. As you suggest, John, he uses your site to write long winded pontifications because he is too cheap to write on his own site. On the other hand I guess he realizes no one in their right mind would pay a nickel for his self-righteous, smug, my-shit-don’t smell, I-know-everything, gasbaggery. What a Schmendrick.
John,
You are correct in calling out people who use this forum to say what they want. I thought yours and Jeff Carlin’s podcast was about the the Mayor being soft on thugs who damage property of others and the former Mayor’s stealing of Columbus statues.
Tom Williams
Kind of naïve to think only The Catholic Church has sex scandals, and yes, it has not been handled well, but there are the same abuses in other churches, schools, businesses, government agencies, human trafficking, etc… Others go unreported by the media, who are tools of the evil one, attacking The Church that was founded by Jesus.
Mike, is Robby Baby ever wrong? It appears at least once! Thanks for pointing that out!
I am wrong as often as you sir, which is frequently. It’s how you learn. Are differing opinions allowed?
please remember what I said. I’m not your mommy or teacher. I don’t have time to waste and you’re wasting it.
More dreary blah, blah, blah…
Saying Washington and Jefferson were great despite owning slaves is like saying pedophil priests are OK because they give great sermons. Gimme a break. Slavery was always known thru out mankind as evil and wrong. Did Christ and his apostles own slaves?
And yet Paul the apostle encouraged slaves to obey their masters. And he told slave owners to treat their slaves well and to be fair. He knew that instant social upheaval was not practical.
So that makes Paul right? Of course not. He was wrong, as many things are in the Bible.
And to say he knew it would cause social upheaval is a joke.
Wasn’t that what Geo. Wallace, etal from the South used to say. ‘They, the Blacks are moving too fast’. You probably still believe in the old South song: 2 4 6 8 we will not integrate.
Public financing of political campaigns means you’re willing to have “the government” in charge of campaign money. Can you please name something (anything?) that the government does better than the private sector, other than ‘lose’ our money down unfathomable rat-holes?
My husband escaped from a country where the ‘government’ financed (read: controlled) the elections. Guess how that worked out!
Curious to know how you would then control the campaigning done by groups like unions and other special interest groups. I think your idea needs a bit more ‘work’.
When I was in Chicago public schools in the 70’s I was taught Cristofer Columbus discovered the Americas. That’s basically it. I wasn’t taught he was a hero. He was an adventurer. That is what he is remembered for. Much like men like Sir Edmund Hilary and Neil Armstrong were remembered as adventurers. Are any one of these individuals worthy of being commemorated with a statue for their achievements? Certainly. True hero status was afforded to our brave American Patriots who fought the tyranny of the English Crown. As far as American History goes there were a few others that were elevated to hero status in our schools. Yet, their accomplishments are eclipsed by our new heroes like George Floyd and Dylan Mulvaney. It would be totally appropriate to replace our traditional “heroes” with our newly manufactured “heroes”. This would certainly appease our attention deficit and weed addled millennials as well as perennially disgruntled whiners like Maitano. Even a nitwit like Riga Tony Baloney would approve of our New Saviors.
How many slaves did Hiliary and Armstrong own?
I am SURE you are aware that there is only one President who did not have slave-owners in their heritage, aren’t you? In case you missed it – a recent President – yes, Donald J. Trump. The rest? Check the records……
Truman and Obama?
He is certainly full of opinions. Everyone is entitled to their opinion whether they are corect or not. The first amendment, freedom of speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances, guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely. I’m glad so may people have taken this right.
Having worked on the mean streets of Chicago for 30 years I had the opportunity to experience people exercising that right daily, up close and personal. The left certainly knows how to use that right when it suits them. Unfortunately many using that right never wish to confuse their right with facts. Facts only create a messy narative. Thankfully we allow everyone to spew forth any narrative that creates their own world of rainbows and unicorns.
Okay John, part of the rehab is writing. Time to hit the keyboard. That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger.
Great stuff Kass. Don’t let the b######d’s get you down. Much love. George F#####g Bunker.
Maybe I missed it in the coverage of the Northwestern stories about the football players being abused. How did the abusers and Evil doers get into the locker room to harass and abuse those 6 foot plus masses of muscle. Could it be that the miscreants were disguised as team water boys or something like that? It truly is a shame that the abusers can walk free with a $250,000 piece of paper after 4 years of torturing the poor young lads on the football squad.
Great show as usual John and Jeff. Unfortunately some people can’t stay on track with the topic. Keep asking Mayor BLM Brandon the relevant questions. Bur Jeff, I will not drink Malort! 😉
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