Blog #3 - Post 5, Reflection Paper, Inequality in the Chicago Area

http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-muckrakers/2011/02/second-city-or-dead-last-income-apartheid-in-chicago/
MeganCottrell, February 28, 2011 at 8:24 am


When I see news print or television reveiws like this particular article, it insults my intellegence and that of all of us, "Second City or Dead Last? Income Apartheid in Chicago" what really gets me is this article was written in the year 2011 and now the Apatheidsphere is beyond comprehension to those of us who are merely looking for employment to pick our selves up or feed our families, this particular article is only speaking about the African American Community mind you.   Well guess what were all in this stratosphere of inequality in Chicago and everywhere else.

In Chicago as one of the largest cities in the world continues inequality at an alarming rate that people are going hungry, losing their homes, families getting seperated and no jobs to boot.   All of the manufacturing jobs have disappeared and empty factory buildings now scatered all over the state and the city that it starts to look like a ghost town in many ways, foreclosed homes everywhere you look.   People hustling against each other for a bigger slice of the pie and know one is getting ahead, but the politicians and the rich, inequality.

"According to data from the 2009 American Community Survey, the average white person in Chicago makes an income of $63,625 a year. Not rich, for sure, but doing pretty well. The average black person is pulling in $28,725 a year, about 45 percent of what the average white person makes. "

As I said, if this statistic is true from it's time, imagine where we are today and in a technical age not to many people can afford the perks that go along with this economy and yes inequality in Chicago is greater than.