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Put up a plaque stating that the park is named in honor of Jesse Jackson............problem solved.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/09/jesse.jackson.comment/CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for "crude and hurtful" remarks he made about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama after an interview with a Fox News correspondent.
The remarks came Sunday as Jackson was talking to a fellow interviewee, UnitedHealth Group executive Dr. Reed V. Tuckson. An open microphone picked up Jackson whispering, "See, Barack's been talking down to black people ... I want to cut his nuts off."
http://nypost.com/2013/11/07/obama-thought-rangel-was-a-hack-book-claims/President Obama considered veteran Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel a political hack and had such little regard for Jesse Jackson that he “effectively banned” the civil rights leader from the White House, a new book claims.
The political tome about the 2012 presidential campaign, “Double Down,” says Obama had little patience for “professional left” activists and “vanishingly close to zero” for what a White House aide called “professional blacks.”
Obama's still pissed about this...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/09/jesse.jackson.comment/
So, Obama did this...
http://nypost.com/2013/11/07/obama-thought-rangel-was-a-hack-book-claims/
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2017/09/27/obama-library-project-could-tap-100-million-state-fundsWill the state of Illinois pony up $100 million to assist the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park?
Chicago Tonight has learned of preliminary plans to do just that. But how would such a proposal fly in a state that is bleeding red ink, especially when the Obamas have promised 100 percent private funding?
Sources tell Chicago Tonight there have been bipartisan talks among lawmakers for $100 million in capital funding to assist with the Obama Presidential Center. It is similar to a proposal from House Speaker Michael Madigan a year and a half ago, who had dangled the money in the hopes of helping land the museum. That proposal did not go anywhere, even though the city did ultimately wind up with the winning bid.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/09/24/local-football-league-fears-relocation-due-to-obama-library/CHICAGO (CBS) — A community football league could be playing its last homecoming game at Jackson Park, as that’s where the Obama Presidential Library is set to be built.
Coach Ernest Radcliffe got emotional as he looked out at the field Sunday afternoon, located at 61st and Stony Island. Radcliffe started the Wolfpack team in 1997. He called this 20th, and maybe last, homecoming ‘The Last Ride,’ as their future is uncertain.
They’ve been told the field will be moved just two blocks south, but so far, they don’t have a Community Benefits Agreement, which would put in writing the commitment to replace and improve the parkland and sports fields that the league has used for two decades.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obamacenter/ct-met-obama-archives-20171004-story.htmlOnce the Obama Presidential Center is constructed, it will have a children’s play garden, sledding hill, green spaces for picnics and outdoor gatherings, basketball courts and even a recording studio, officials have said.
But what the space won’t have is all of former President Barack Obama’s manuscripts, documents, letters and gifts he collected during his time in office. While the Presidential Center is about four years from opening, a conversation has begun about what the facility will mean to scholars and to local research universities without those items.
Traditionally, Presidential Libraries are places where historians, academics and college students travel to dig through paperwork and hold the first drafts of speeches, letters and legislation in their hands. But without those papers on site, some have begun to ask whether the Obama Center can even attract researchers to the University of Chicago, Chicago State University or the University of Illinois. What will it mean to have those documents online rather than in a physical form for inspection? And with digital technology constantly changing, how will the National Archives and Records Administration ensure the documents will be placed online in a timely manner and accessible over time?
Currently, Obama’s papers are stored in a private facility — a handsome and sprawling, bright white brick building on a commercial strip on West Golf Road in suburban Hoffman Estates. Officials initially thought the papers would be kept in Chicago. But after they spent $300,000 to ship Obama’s documents to the Chicago region and about $223,000 a month to store and provide security for tens of millions of textual records, artifacts and audio visual materials here, they decided to ship them back to Washington once a decision is made on where to keep them permanently, a spokeswoman with the National Archives and Records Administration said
Park advisory councils on the South Side released statements Thursday to air their concerns about the Obama Presidential Center coming to Jackson Park, joining an outpouring of community calls for transparency and collaboration as the Obama Foundation begins to finalize plans.
Stephanie Franklin, whose Nichols PAC also drafted a statement in opposition to the foundation using park land for the center, said that the statement hopes to shed light on the “radical changes” that have been proposed and show the foundation that the community is concerned.
“We’re concerned about the overall health of the park,” Franklin said. “It hasn’t been demonstrated to us how they will resolve our concerns or that they’ve even heard us.”
^^^ Rob, Luk or Ferm?
Hey, Rob! Tell us all about your 15 years of excellence & your 6th place finish in the recent GB Hall of Fame election. You'll always be AJ's & Que's bitch.
Hey, Luk! Tell us all about your never ending search for your manhood & your 9th place finish in the recent GB Hall of Fame election.
Hey, Ferm! Tell us all about your never ending search for a man you'll never be able to keep.
Saying they want to draw more attention to their push for a contract guaranteeing jobs and amenities as the Obama Presidential Center is developed, dozens of South Side residents marched in Woodlawn and Hyde Park on Tuesday afternoon.
“The message is simple: We want a community benefits agreement and we're not going anywhere,” said Devondrick Jeffers, an organizer with VISTA and STOP, groups that are members of the Community Benefits Agreement coalition. “Some people look at us and feel we're being opportunistic and asking for way too much. We're not asking them to change all of Chicago. We're asking them to think of the people who don't normally sit at the table, what would they like to see.”
http://abc7chicago.com/community-ev...rn-over-obama-center-in-jackson-park/2724489/"Why would the president of the people take public land from people, especially a legacy park? This is not a play lot on the corner this is one of our great legacy parks," said Preservation Chicago Executive Director Ward Miller.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/s...obama-center-adverse-effects-in-jackson-park/WASHINGTON — The federal government has invited comments on “adverse effects” the Obama Presidential Center may have on Jackson Park and a leading landscape advocacy group has three big ones: the planned iconic high-rise tower; the proposed closing of Cornell Drive and not taking into account the historic Frederick Law Olmsted designs for the related Midway Plaisance and Washington Park.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-battle-to-shut-down-obamas-presidential-center/article/2645882The Obama Foundation released plans last week for the presidential center it plans to build in Chicago's Jackson Park, but behind the scenes, a battle is taking place to keep the former Democratic president from building on that specific lot of land, and there's still a chance that it gets delayed when it seeks federal approval. What initially started out as a library has morphed into a 20-acre private "center," and some environmentalists and historians are unhappy with the Obama Foundation's plans to swoop in and take over a national historic place.
"Here’s our bottom line. If the Obama Foundation wishes to construct this center on Chicago’s South Side, that’s fine, but not on parkland held in public trust. The University of Chicago, which orchestrated the winning bid for the project, has plenty of land on the South Side that they could and should use. Instead, they’ve been adamant since day one that they must have historic public parkland for the purpose," Charles Birnbaum, president and founder of D.C.-based nonprofit, the Cultural Landscape Foundation, told the Washington Examiner in a written statement Saturday.
The foundation is not alone. The group is working alongside a number of others, including Friends of the Parks, Jackson Park Watch, Openlands, National Association for Olmsted Parks, Save the Midway, Landmarks Illinois, and Preservation Chicago, all of whom have raised concerns about the project.
In addition, 200 faculty members from Obama's former employer, the University of Chicago, issued a formal letter last Monday stating its opposition to the presidential center being built at this location.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/c...ith-obama-presidential-center/article/2651022A panel of national and local experts, comprised mostly of African-Americans, lambasted Chicago city officials in a meeting Wednesday night for how they have worked closely with the Obama Foundation to build the Obama Presidential Center on public land despite criticism and serious concerns from representatives of the South Side neighborhood.
"You have all this talk about collusion between Trump and Russia, right? To me, that sounds like collusion between the city and the university, and we see the same thing happening in relation to this," one of the panelists, Jawanza Malone, executive director of the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, said.
University of Chicago professors, leaders in the black community, and experts on historic preservation and architecture repeatedly condemned former President Barack Obama and his organization for engaging in closed-door negotiations with the university and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who served as Obama's first term chief of staff, and said the Democratic leader is ignoring the historic black community's needs.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...rofit-sues-to-block-obama-presidential-centerThe Chicago Tribune reports Protect Our Parks Inc. filed the suit in U.S. District Court on Monday, alleging that Chicago Park District and the City of Chicago lack the power to move government-owned parkland to a nongovernmental organization, in this case the Obama Foundation.
“The City and Park District clearly realize and fully understand that this established law precludes the Park District from arbitrarily transferring possession, use and control of this dedicated ‘open, clear and free’ public parkland in Jackson Park to a private nongovernmental … entity’s self-determined use,” the complaint said, according to the Tribune. The nonprofit also said the organizers of the center pulled an “institutional bait and switch” by keeping the purpose of the center from being a "true presidential library."