Every generation leaders must emerge
Fred Hampton was a Maywood native and chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. Image taken from The Two Malcontents.
Harold Washington was the first African-American mayor of Chicago. He was elected by energizing large numbers of voters. Image taken from Encyclopedia Britannica.
Barack Obama is the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois. On January 3, 2008, Obama received 38% support in the Iowa caucus by energizing large numbers of voters. (Two other candidates received slightly less than 30% support.) Today, New Hampshire voters hold the first in the nation primary. Image taken from The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper.
In Proviso Township the delegates for Obama are:
If you live in the IL-03 (Brookfield, La Grange Park, North Riverside, southern Forest Park or southern Westchester):
* Martin Arteaga, Chicago
* John Daley, Chicago
* Lisa Hernandez, Cicero
* Shirley Roumagoux-Madigan, Chicago
* Albert D. Tyson, III, Chicago
* Arthur Velasquez, Palos Hills
* Diane Viverito, Burbank
If you live in the IL-04 (Stone Park, part of Melrose Park):
* Leticia DelGadillo, Chicago
* Miguel De Valle, Chicago
* Soraida Gutierrez, Chicago
* Jesse Ruiz, Chicago
If you live in IL-05 (Northlake and part of Melrose Park):
* Margaret Laurino, Chicago
* Sylvia Martinez, Chicago
* David Ernesto Munar, Chicago
* Renae Ogletree, Chicago
* Mike Quigley, Chicago
* Henry Tamarin, Chicago
If you live in IL-07 (Bellwood, Berkeley, Broadview, Hillside, Maywood, northern Forest Park, northern Westchester):
* Byron T. Brazier, Sr., Chicago
* Deborah Graham, Chicago
* Mattie Hunter, Chicago
* Mike Kruglik, Chicago
* Bill McNary, Chicago
* Amalia Rioja, River Forest
* Ed Smith, Chicago
* Karen Yarbrough, Maywood
Labels: Barack Obama, Fred Hampton, Harold Washington
posted by Carl Nyberg at
9:32 AM
5 Comments:
Are you really, truly comparing Fred Hampton to Harold Washington and Barak Obama?
By
Anonymous, at 10:14 PM, January 08, 2008
I see nothing wrong with the comparison. Who should he have compared them to, Chris Welch?
Not in a million years!
By
Anonymous, at 1:09 PM, January 09, 2008
What is your point? Do these three having something in common? Leave reporting on black issue to West Suburban Journal
By
Anonymous, at 1:41 PM, January 09, 2008
Jesse Jackson Jr. would have been a MUCH better choice.
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Anonymous, at 7:38 PM, January 09, 2008
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s stunning comeback victory in New Hampshire duplicates the feat of Bill Clinton who overcame the draft and Gennifer Flowers in the Granite State primary in 1992.
But Hillary did Bill one better. He placed second. She won. Those who counted Hillary out don’t know her and don’t know the Clintons.
The clear message of the New Hampshire primary is there is no front-runner, but it’s a two-way race between the queen and the challenger that won’t be decided by an early knockout.
But Hillary approaches the balance of the month in very good shape.
The Battle of Hillary, in a sense, is over.
She has been challenged and hit, but stayed on her feet. She has weathered the negatives, lost her momentum, and still emerged, in effect, tied for the lead.
Now the Battle of Obama is about to begin.
The negative researchers and detectives who staff the Clinton campaign - we call them the secret police - now go into overdrive combing through the Illinois senator’s life for any shred of poison to use.
What did he say (or what does a disgruntled student recall him saying) in each of his constitutional law classes? What causes did he work for as an organizer in Chicago? How did he vote on every issue that came before the Illinois legislature? What are the precise details of his financial life going back to the beginning?
Obama had it right when he joked yesterday that he saw a dump truck pull up alongside him and start beeping! And the theme of Hillary’s attack will be that Obama cannot win, that he’s not “electable.”
By that, she will mean, but never say, that a black man cannot be elected president in middle America. As surely as Bill used the race card by attacking rap singer Sister Souljah in 1992, Hillary will use race to win in 2008.
Hillary has withstood the full force of Obama’s momentum. Now we will see if Barack can stand the onslaught he is about to face.
A big question for Obama is whether John Edwards will stay in the race. With less than 20 percent of the New Hampshire vote, he is clearly splitting the anti-Clinton vote.
In recent days, he has gone out of his way to praise Obama. Could he be running for vice president again?
On the Republican side, Rudy Giuliani has paid the price for his refusal to campaign actively in the early primaries. He now must contend with John McCain.
The voters of New Hampshire did America a favor by knocking Mitt Romney back and possibly out of the race.
The GOP race will boil down to McCain, Giuliani and Mike Huckabee, a tough choice for down-the-line conservatives, but a choice among candidates who are most electable in November.
Whether or not Huckabee can win is debatable. But McCain and Giuliani sure can depending on which Democrat they end up facing.
By
Anonymous, at 7:53 PM, January 09, 2008
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