From Secondcitycop.blogspot.com

From Secondcitycop.blogspot.com

Ervin Pisses on MLK's Dream Again

There are scumbags, then there are scumbags. Aldercreature Jason Ervin is the latter:

• The commander of a West Side police district is leaving to become a police chief in the suburbs — prompting an alderman to demand that Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy fill the position with a black candidate.
  
  At a budget hearing last month, Ald. Jason Ervin (28th) engaged in a heated confrontation with McCarthy over his decision to transfer James O’Grady, who is white, to the predominately black Harrison District.
  
  “We have a lot of people at the table. They felt this was just a slap in the face,” Ervin said Monday, adding that West Side residents are planning a news conference before Wednesday’s City Council meeting to turn up the heat on McCarthy.

Heat? They just had a black commander. And before that, a Polynesian - she was Polynesian, right? She went through her career telling everyone she was Polynesian...."The Lyin' Hawaiian" if we recall.

In any event, this is "a slap in the face" because only black officers, sergeants, lieutenants and commanders can patrol black areas, right? The community is scarred and fractured over a white guy running the joint for two months:

• “It was rumored that he was leaving. I don’t think it was necessary to put our community through that kind of strife,” Ervin said of the transition of O’Grady becoming commander in Harrison.

We drove through 011 the other day and you can barely recognize the place. Irish flags flying every where, streets mostly clean and pothole free, brand new construction and high rises all over the place. Someone even said the Italians were moving back into Our Lady of the Angels.

 

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Anonymous said...

Imagine the slap in the face I felt back when I was looked over for promotion to sergeant for no other reason than because I am NOT black. True. We had a thing called race-norming and because of that and only because of that I lost out on my promotion.

If it was ranked by test scores I had it but it wasn't. Someone who scored many points beneath me got the promotion instead. I am retired now and lost out on the sergeants pension. 

 

This blog and this commenter are both wrong and liars.  In this great democratic country, if laws did not protect he minority, none would ever get any higher than the lowest position offered and might not get that.