Chicago Way w/John Kass: Pastor Brooks worries the city’s downward spiral is getting worse
Chicago Way w/John Kass (04/24/23): Joining the conversation this week is Corey Brooks, Founder and Senior Pastor at New Beginnings Church of Chicago and the Founder and CEO of Project H.O.O.D, to discuss with John Kass & Jeff Carlin the need for parents to be held accountable for the crimes of their children and for elected officials to be held responsible for their promises. Check out more Kasso at JohnKassNews.com
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Great Guest today. I also thought your descriptive word for these young adults as “FERAL” was spot on. The posing with the “gun of the hand” (cf “Witness”) is so emblematic of the situation these young people are in. They have no language or math skills — thank you CTU. Also thank you CTU for electing another far leftie to supervise the final demise of a once great city. Being nicey nice or telling hard working folks not to “demonize” these uncivil youth is not going to solve anything. The movie “Lord of the Flies” comes to mind. Pastor Brooks and a few others get it and are trying but it is a very steep hill to climb at this point. Until we defeat Kim Foxx and turn the courts around to prosecute those arrested, and untie the hands of the police to regain order we are doomed.
Well said, Mr Kenney. Spot on in all regards!
John, you are a conservative with libertarian leanings. You have great disdain for “the hard left”, as do I, a liberal with socialist leanings.
The only hope we have as a nation is to eschew this plot of the corporate duopoly, aided by media elites, to keep us at each others’ throats while they continue to rob us with impunity.
Fox News has been exposed. MSNBC has been exposed, as have CNN, the NYT, and the WAPO. They cherry pick, lie to us, and push narratives that benefit the corporate lords that run the nation.
We need to find common ground where we can and push for political, economic, and social reform John. You see, are system is designed to thwart the building of consensus.
Let’s talk Christian principles. Let’s talk Christ. He loved the downtrodden so that he fed them, washed their feet, prayed with them. That does not mean he wanted them to rob, steal, or defecate on the street. So our leaders and media elites have bastardized Christ’s teachings and perverted it into a shakedown scheme. The “hard right” has also been sold a “personal responsibility” narrative that blamed poor people and kicks people off of “government assistance”, while gladly sending billions to Ukraine.
John, if we can support Ukraine in a proxy war, we can get the homeless off the street. If we can spend trillions in Iraq, we can allow a mom to send her son to Leo High School. If we can give Bill Gates, Musk, and Bezos welfare in the form of zero taxation, we can bring investment, jobs, and better education opportunities to the South and West sides.
These Cook County Dems, are corrupt. They use their blackness as a cloak to shield their corruption. This has been a power grab, plain and simple. This is similar to what I see as a greedy elite, as in much of the South, that soaks up resources, and exploits, and abuses the poor to enrich the oligarchs. It’s just now, instead of southern gentlemen, it’s Toni snd her sensible shoes.
Look at how incompetent and corrupt the black pols of Cook County are John. Daley was racist according to them, and things are actually worse under them. So I guess that’s equity John. Black pols can be just as crooked, corrupt, and venal.
I blame the men for the problems of our youth. Women are taught that they don’t need a husband. Men are allowed to abdicate their responsibilities as fathers and leave their kids to overburden moms snd corrupt schools and government to raise their kids. Elites like Barack Obama, allow poor blocks to lose their homes while bailing out Wall Street and not prosecuting fraud and abuse. He allows the children of Flint, MI to be poisoned with lead and led elites responsible go scot free.
Denial is not just a rice in Egypt John. We’ve got yo find common ground. We’ve got to throw these buns out.
Mr. Maitino:
HOW can we make a change when 66% of eligible voters won’t turn out to vote in a critical municipal election?
Charles,
This statistic boggles my mind. How can this low turnout happen in such a critical election? I fear for this once great city. How much worse does it have to get for people to become engaged?
By the way, peace to you John Kass. Godspeed on your complete recovery!
God bless Pastor Brooks, but if ever there was a lost cause, Chicago is it.
If his organization can spare but one young person from a feral life of violence, it won’t be enough.
My hat is off, to him, though.
We’re at war in Chicago and in our country. Now is not the time to wave the white flag. Instead, it is time to rid ourselves of polite conversation, grab our kids and grandkids from protests, and educate them.
Pastor Brooks is fighting the good fight as we have to, also.
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Alas, a sad state of affairs for our city, state and country. Accountability for one’s actions, of any kind, is no longer allowed or permitted. The new far left socialist dem party, excuses criminal behavior under the guise of repressed opportunities. If we push back, we’re racists. This is what happens when we raised an entire generation of youths with a permissive attitude, no discipline, let alone parental guidance. We’ve left their upbringing up to teachers, who have their own socialist agenda! We’ve allowed George Soros to bankroll races across the country that have elected the most far left district attorneys and states attorneys. Our own Kim Foxx in Chicago, Gascone in LA, and Bragg in NY are typical. Look at the skyrocketing crime in those once great cities. And the the new mayor isn’t any better either, as he’ll send social workers out to 9-1-1 calls! As we say in Greek – “the fish smells from the head!” Look at the current crop of reps, senators and president! No accountability for their actions, for their palling around with Chinese spies and Xi’s embedded police forces; for taking bribes from a host of various spies, calling them “lobbyists!” We are rotting away from within, and I fear we’re witnessing the demise of America, unless we can halt the slide, and reverse the trend. But sorry to say, I’m not very hopeful. Let us pray….
Great podcast with the pastor. Thank you.
Thanks for having Pastor Corey Brooks on the Podcast today, good listening.
Pastor Brooks is good guy. I’m gonna try to wedge a rant about Bob Rita in here because he skates everytime all the attention shifts to black pols the likes of Madigan and Rita go into automatic stealth mode and that’s messed up too. I promise to bring it back to the topic of downtown violence.
So speaking of minions, and “who’s next” in the Chicago Way as you did in a column recently, maybe it’s a good time to transition from focusing on Madiganistan and re-focus on those of us wasting away again in Robert Ritaville.
What do you know about the 28th district’s eleven term State Rep from Blue Island Bob Rita? Details would be good especially since Robert “Bob” Rita keeps so invisible to the media radar he makes the Stealth Bomber look like a 747 😆. And of course there’s the matter of the missing fifteen million.
That leads to a discussion about Croney Capitalism and how Robert Rita is all about THAT. Having said all that I’d still invite anybody tell me how the eleven term State Rep is a good servant of the the 28th district and Cook County and Illinois in general. And since you raised the downtown violence issue and since I have been tasked along with many others from the suburbs of being the first wave to come back downtown for work, step through blood, step over the homeless and their crap, dodge bullets, all in broad daylight in the loop, and none of us thought locking down the whole state for 3 years would end well and many showed up at Re-Open Illinois hosted by Amy Jacobson in May of 2020 to lend support. I guarantee you Robert “Bob” Rita wasn’t there at Re-Open Illinois in May 2020 to speak out against the lockdowns because he was all for it! What has he done for us? Now the rest of us chumps have to piece it all back together. GARBAGE LEADERSHIP 🗑.
Then finally you still gotta ask the following question around- what do they whisper about State Rep. Rita? 😱
If anybody runs against Robert “Bob” Rita, regardless of party affiliation, I’m a massive Republican and I’ll make an exception in this case, and vote in the Democratic Primary if necessary and I will work for opponent X . Every spare minute I have and in every community in the 28th district to see Robert “Bob” Rita out of office.