A Spooks endorsement for Chicago's Next Mayor to the tune of "Runaway"

Aydelott, Levin. Runaway Slave Ad for Kirt, NorthCarolina, 1814 

"TEN DOLLARS REWARD.

RANAWAY on the 19th of February last, a Negro man namedKIRT, between 20 and 30 years old, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, very black, cunning and artful, can write a tolerable good hand, it is probable he has a pass with a number of names counterfeited to it, and he may attempt to counterfeit the county seal, speaks quick, is a little hollow eyed, rather knock-kneed, had with him a pair of leather breeches, a black full lincey coat, other clothing not recollected - it is possible he will change his clothing and make use of many devices to deceive the people, as he has a great deal of assurance; he has no motive in running away, but to get free, and may attempt to go to Ohio or Delaware, or the lower end of this State. The above reward will be given by the subscriber for the delivery or information of said runaway so that I get him again."

I'm listening to the song  "Runaway", by Kayne "Pest" An idiot whom I "ran away from" right around the time his mother died because she wanted a "perfect body"  and against her doctor's orders, underwent plastic surgery and died from related complications on the operating table.  A sad and ironic metaphor for the shallow "bling"  "bling" ostentatious diamond in crusted, rise of her son Kayne West, who paid for the operation in the first place.  I've not come back.  But this is the first song of his  (not that I've listened to most of them, )  that a true Hip Hop head like me can "feel".  It's certainly not about his  shallow self aggrandizing, self absorbed, and misogynistic lyrics, that solely defines  his every utterance. But the haunting melody that uses the piano, as if to mark the slow passage of time and the concept of Running Away. 

Which is what I'm doing in Chicago in May.

Any one who's read my blog from it's origins, knows that I did not as first promised  provide an inside view of  how  completely corrupted politics are in this state.  But how could I?  When my lively hood depended on being the Spook  inside the door?  Instead I wrote about race, class, gender, and economics, on a national and international scale. Somtimes so scathing, that I deleted the posts from the first couple of years, a few months ago when I thought that I was going to move to yet another realm of government-  which is also the answer to those of you who posted and emailed to  inquire as to what  happened to those posts.

But now  I'm finally running away to finish, my deam, law school, so upon graduation, I can  finally pay for my modern day "Underground Rail Road Pass", away from this city-state political modern day plantation to the Promised Land.  Because F. Scott Fitzgerald was wrong.  Indeed, there are second acts in Americans lives, but they're  increasing harder to come by and most be earned, unless you are rich. So it's taken me a while.

But now that I made my first break from the plantation temporarily, to attend law school full time, I do want to comment on tomorrow's Chicago's Mayoral Race.  This post is for Chicagoans,  so it might be hard to interpret if you're not from here.  

As a long time soldier for progressive ideals, I take no pleasure in writing this. But all of my friends( including two Chicago cops tonight ) and associates continue asking me, whom should be the next mayor of Chicago.

My choice( steady yourself) is that Rahm Emanuel should win because he's who complacent  Chicago truly deserves.  Because as Abrham Lincoln said, "The people get the type of government they deserve"

Out of the whole field of politicians who are running, and those who contemplated running for mayor, Emanuel is the only candidate with vision enough to plan his run for Mayor of the second largest city in America, long before Daley even announced his retirement.  But he will not get my vote.

Most of my friends are going with Miguel  deValle who is the candidate of  privileged white Bike advocates and Logan Square housing activists.  deValle (was)  a long time progressive state senator and critic of Mayor Daley.  Until, Daley appointed him  to city clerk more then eight years ago to insure he didn't run against him for Mayor.  deValle has been around  far far long enough to not to have known to began organizing and building a rainbow progressive and liberal coalition (to run for Mayor) as soon as he became clerk more then eight years ago. He had the time and connections, yet choose to tinker at reform under Daley's thumb, while cheer leading for Daley up until today.

Further, members of his campaign are working harder at unseating one of the few independent Alderman, Rey Colon who actually opposed Daley.  I view  deValle as an updated liberal version of former Mayor Eugene Sawyer, who served out the remaining year and a half of the term of Harold Washington after his  tragic untimely death.  I can't see him as a strong progressive Mayor, which is why his campaign was more anemic than Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, and almost as dead.  Therefore I'm not going to denigrate my measly, pathetic, but only vote on him.

Carol Moseley Braun is just sad, sad and more sad.  The only thing she represents is Chicago's useless, failed and corrupt "Negro" leadership who are nothing but modern day slave overseers to a blind Black community who can't even visualize being off Daley's political plantation. I'm sure they will all settle just as meekly on the Emanuel Plantation.

Gary Chico is actually running a good campaign and is the reason why I laugh when white liberals  say  "No human is illegal" while pressing  our government not to control our borders. Gary Chico represents the rise of Chicago's the corrupt Hispanic Democratic Organization( HDO ), Chicago Hispanic Machine (which gets stronger  because of our increased Mexican legal and illegal population),and supported by the old school "gray wolves like Ed Burke, and  modern day Machine Irish Ward leaders like 19th Ward Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.  And while it may be "their( HDO) turn" to control and plunder City Hall, like the Irish do,this lonely voter in the woods aint supporting it.

Bill "Doc" Walls who is the arch-type perennial candidate is not serious, and runs for office as his major source of income, which again  represents failed Chicago "Negro" leadership.

I've never been so disappointed with liberal politicians/ leaders utter failure to take back this city.   We have hundreds of so called "good government" politicians and leaders.  But they're all so corrupted that they would never dream of actually doing more than talking about change, which sounds like another Chicago politician now in Washington.

And while I should vote for Emmanuel because he will at least protect my property values, I'll probably vote for Patricia Van Pelt-Watkins. While she doesn't deserve to be Mayor,( and she won't be tomorrow) she managed to win over the demons of her drug addiction and poverty.  Then do some good in Chicago's poor Black community.  Maybe one day she will actually  be the candidate that deValle and Braun should have been.

Ironic that this particular election comes during Black History Month, which reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote in her brilliant but tragic-comic book, The Bluest Eye.

"we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We called ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life"

I hope we learn something by the next for years, because by then we will have created yet another generation of modern day  "Pecola Breedloves".