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| WEST: An Oval Office session? |
But
learning of the fact that Trump intends to have a meeting Thursday with a
Chicagoan of some popular renown to gain his input into urban violence, prison
reform and street gang violence is nothing more than laughable.
FOR
THAT MEETING will be with the entertainer Kanye West. Who is a Chicago native
and may well have opinions on all the issues that confront the city where he
was raised.
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| TRUMP: He'll listen to anyone with material |
But
somehow, I just can’t see that “Mr. Kim Kardashian” has much of anything
relevant to say. In fact, I think I take more seriously the thoughts of Chance
the Rapper when it comes to finding solutions to Chicago’s problems.
He,
at least, has been willing to put money into finding solutions for problems
confronting the Chicago school system – which may be more of a real solution
than anything I’m sure West will have to say to Trump when the two of them meet
at the White House later this week.
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| CHANCE: Puts some money where his mouth is |
By
comparison, I expect West will mouth out lots of platitudes that Trump will be
able to riff off of in terms of taking pot shots at Chicago – whose real problem,
as far as Trump is concerned, is that it prevents Illinois from being like
other Great Lakes states that were deluded enough to support Trump’s 2016
presidential bid with their Electoral College votes.
THEREBY
MAKING IT a place he will go out of his way to ridicule, no matter how illogical
or impractical his thoughts would be to actually implement. Then again, Trump once met with Kid Rock and Ted Nugent at the White House.
Anybody
who doubts me ought merely to listen to Trump’s rant from earlier this week,
when he told a gathering of law enforcement officials in Orlando, Fla., that
the solution to Chicago’s crime problems is to give our police more authority
to “stop and frisk.”
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| CEDRIC: What would he tell Donald? |
A
policy that specifically is prohibited under an agreement that police
department reached with the American Civil Liberties Union – which regards such
police policies as giving our cops far too much authority to harass people for
no real reason.
If
anything, the fact that Trump would make such a suggestion for Chicago shows he
doesn’t have a clue as to what our city’s situation is and our problems are!
FOR
THE MINDSET of those people who applauded the verdict of a jury in Cook County
court with regards to police officer Jason Van Dyke is that it was a step towards
limiting police authority in dealing with the public.
If
we were to really start giving police the power to pat people down for any
little suspicion the cops might have, it would go counter to the mindset of those
individuals who are hopeful that a jury finally put aside their prejudices and
issued a just verdict.
The
only people who will think that “stop and frisk” makes any sense are the kind
who were hoping for a Van Dyke acquittal on all those criminal charges a jury
found him guilty of.
I
don’t doubt West will come up with outrageous things to say come Thursday, and
Trump will find a way to come up with what he thinks is a comical riff off of
it. Which some may find entertaining, but which contributes next to nothing
toward finding a solution to the problems that confront so many of our nation’s
large cities.
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| Trump's idea of presidential 'advisers' -- Nugent and Rock, w/ Sarah Palin in the mix |
Either
that, or perhaps we ought to turn to Cedric the Entertainer.
Somehow,
I suspect I’d take more seriously the thoughts of the actor who has both said
Trump has a skin tone the color of Cheetos, but also has said it is wrong to
think we can “boycott” the incumbent president.
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