Salon Pushes Notion Segregation is to Blame for Chicago’s Crime

By Jenn Jacques

Gun grabbers will use anything to push their agenda; Hillary touts dead black children, Cory Booker uses women, and they all use the NRA.

Yesterday, Salon ran an excerpt from Natalie Moore’s book titled: We are not Chiraq: Yes, Chicago has too many murders, but labeling us with terms like “war zone,” “Chiraq” and “urban terrorism” doesn’t help. Subtitled: Violence in Chicago is a symptom of racial and economic segregation — issues that must be addressed.

Oh dear.

In part, Ms. Moore’s book/Salon article reads:

I hate the nickname Chiraq.

The slang term combines “Chicago” and “Iraq” (pronounced shy-rack), a sly, albeit ham-fisted, way of linking violence in the two locales. Some young people brandish the Chiraq moniker with the same kind of pride reserved for the Michael Jordan era of the Chicago Bulls. Rapper King Louie is credited with inventing the terms “Chiraq” and “Drillinois.” He’s a drill artist, and drill music is a subgenre of pulsating hip-hop originating in the South Side (hence “Drillinois.) The trend is being capitalized on with Chiraq T-shirts that juxtapose a machine gun with the city’s skyline or the word emblazoned over a state map or decorated with the red, black and green colors of …Read the Rest

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