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When I did precinct work for Mayor Harold Washington, I quickly learned that a person cannot just walk into highrise buildings on the north side. Almost all of them have either a doorman or a security guard that required you to be let in by a tenant and sign a register. If you don’t live in the building or have any business there, you don’t get in period. This is what rich white folks call “security.” Only when the CHA does the same thing is it called a “lockdown.”
In her article, Ms. Juffer only names a few tenants who seem to be “troubled” by CHA security, one of which is Sylvester Richmond. It should surprise nobody that he is also a registered Republican. Black tokens in the Republican party have always been used by rich white people to oppress other blacks. All one has to do is look at the blacks that Reagan appointed to destroy affirmative action and HUD. Mr. Richmond should wake up and realize that he is being used by white outsiders against his own people. If one of his children gets killed or hurt by a gangster or criminal, these “liberal” white folks are not going to lose any sleep. If the CHA evicts his family, the outside agitators are not going to give them a place to live. There are no poor black families in Ms. Juffer’s neighborhood where rents start at about $600 a month.
Kevin Kitchen
