Ald. Ameya Pawar is interviewed by Chicago Sun-Times reporter Fran Spielman at City Hall last year. | Rich Hein/Sun-Times Whenever someone tells me if “poor” people had more money, we could stop the killings, I want to scream.
Those are not “poor” people firing guns on our streets and killing our children.
Those are people without hope.There’s a difference.I grew up in a neighborhood of poor people and we weren’t killing each other. Yes, there was crime, but children were safe when they walked down a street or rode in a car.Somehow we knew our poverty wasn’t a permanent condition.Last week, […]
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