again: you can openly pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing and be received as engaging in "racially charged rhetoric" so long as you are not sufficiently rude about it. and yet the present administration cannot manage even this

Highlight how anti-blackness is at the core of almost all modern history, and we should acknowledge it so solidarity movements don’t exclude black liberation.

Thanks for this piece. I think it’s worth mentioning that the Choctaw, faced with complete destitution caused by invading white settlers, became a society built on the enslavement of black people. They allied with the Confederacy to preserve slavery. My point is not to criticize the Choctaw, but to

To clarify, I don’t mean you assumed anything, I mean the city leadership!

I think there’s an assumption that green infra like that is easy to tack on (“just add plants”) but it’s advanced science and engineering that requires its own devoted staff. And MWRD is already using their expertise in the suburbs… let them cook in all of Cook County!

Which is obvi an imperfect solution- Chicago needs more green stormwater infra like bioswales along the road to capture stormwater. City of Boston made a whole dept devoted to this, instead of difficult coordination between DOT, Water Management, and Parks.

Not disputing that some storm drains might be blocked by debris, but Chicago has drain flow controls to create pooling in the street! The street acts as a temporary reservoir during heavy rain so that the sewer pipes aren’t overwhelmed (which causes sewage in local waterways and basements)

His name is Ahmad Al-Ahmad and we can all choose to highlight him instead of the murderers who committed a massacre

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I’m Jewish and anti-Zionist, as are many of my friends. Read “Our Palestine Question” for some history on Israeli govt interfering with American-Jewish orgs to astroturf support for Zionism. I think you’re making a dangerous assumption about an entire group of people.

Not exactly history, but “Istanbul: Memories and the city” by Orhan Pamuk is a beautiful read. And it has great pictures! But the book is as much about the emotions, psychology, and universal experiences of living in a fast-changing city as it is about Istanbul.