{"id":1102538,"date":"2021-12-09T12:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T17:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1102538"},"modified":"2021-12-09T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T17:29:42","slug":"savagery-run-amok-glenn-loury-slams-liberal-anti-racists-ignoring-chicago-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/savagery-run-amok-glenn-loury-slams-liberal-anti-racists-ignoring-chicago-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Savagery Run Amok\u2019: Glenn Loury Slams \u2018Liberal Anti-Racists\u2019 Ignoring Chicago Carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsavagery-run-amok-glenn-loury-slams-liberal-anti-racists-ignoring-chicago-carnage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1102538&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Responding to the latest horrifying act of violence in his native Chicago, in which a CTA driver was beaten up by a group of black youths and a local columnist blasted the Democratic political leadership which has left the city a roiling cauldron of violence, economist and Brown University professor Glenn Loury fired a blistering attack on leftists who talk a good game but are nowhere to be found, snapping, \u201cThis is not \u2018systemic racism.\u2019 Rather, it\u2019s savagery running amok right in the center of my hometown, Chicago. The perpetrators are black youth. About this fiasco, there is not a mumbling word to be heard from the liberal anti-racists. I wonder why not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is not &#8220;systemic racism.&#8221; Rather, it&#8217;s savagery running amok right in the center of my hometown, Chicago. The perpetrators are black youth. About this fiasco, there is not a mumbling word to be heard from the liberal anti-racists. I wonder why not\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rU2pbgbZ4N\">https:\/\/t.co\/rU2pbgbZ4N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Loury (@GlennLoury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennLoury\/status\/1468964510664835072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loury was responding to columnist John Kass, who tweeted, \u201cLightfoot, Foxx, Preckwinkle, Pritzker, Judge Evans. Look at what your liberal policies have done to Chicago, city of anarchy. You\u2019ve killed the city. You make speeches about \u2018equity\u2019 Disgusting and shameless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lightfoot, Foxx, Preckwinkle, Pritzker, Judge Evans. Look at what your liberal policies have done to Chicago, city of anarchy. You\u2019ve killed the city. You make speeches about \u201cequity\u201dDisgusting and shameless <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QvwPigHu1i\">https:\/\/t.co\/QvwPigHu1i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Kass (@John_Kass) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/John_Kass\/status\/1467630386155032578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As recently as December 2,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2021\/12\/2\/22814734\/gun-violence-community-intervention-homicides-chicago-cook-county-build-back-better-editorial\">The Chicago Sun-Times<\/a> reported, \u201cLast weekend, three people were shot dead and 26 were shot and wounded in Chicago. On Monday, nine more people were shot. On Tuesday, seven more people were shot. On Wednesday, 10 people more were shot, three fatally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loury has not been shy about confronting those whom he feels are leading the black community astray; he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/glenn-loury-rips-sharpton-the-clock-keeps-ticking-on-poor-black-people-the-demagoguery-that-spews-out-of-him\">said<\/a> of activist Al Sharpton, \u201cI think the politics of the Democratic Party is perfect for creating the careers of people like Al Sharpton, who broker the race card and the votes of black Democrats for the access that they can get and who played a certain kind of functional role in something that I think really poorly represents the interest of African-Americans rightly understood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loury listed actions Sharpton could take but hasn\u2019t that would engender respect for him in Loury\u2019s perspective:<\/p>\n<p><em>If Al Sharpton were running around talking about charter schools; if he were running around urging African-Americans to adopt kids who don\u2019t have any parents; if he were insisting that it\u2019s possible for black kids compete effectively if they get the kind of instruction and support that they need to acquire the intellectual skills that allow them to compete in an exam school situation or anything like that; if he was going to find ex-offenders who were prepared to reject the gang life and affirm decent ways of living and foster relationships of guidance with young men who were not yet on the right path and so forth and so on; if he was working with the cops and not against the cops to try to keep the peace in some of these neighborhoods, I\u2019d have more respect for him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cBut it\u2019s a very high-level shtick. He\u2019s refined it to perfection, and he\u2019s out Jesse Jacksoning Jesse Jackson in the twenty-first century while the clock keeps ticking on poor black people, and the demagoguery that spews out of him is almost completely unrelated to the actual material needs of this population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He turned to Sharpton\u2019s buddy, President Joe Biden: \u201cJoe Biden is going to rescue inner-city Baltimore? Really? At the brokerage of Al Sharpton Joe Biden is going to save education for poor black people? Joe Biden is going to make it safe to walk on the South Side of Chicago after midnight because Al Sharpton is in the Oval Office?\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here I am, explaining to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnHMcWhorter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnHMcWhorter<\/a> exactly what&#8217;s wrong with Al Sharpton (time was limited, so I had to keep it short!) See more at my new channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kM0UhXwAz4\">https:\/\/t.co\/kM0UhXwAz4<\/a> and support this work at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZICguBef8A\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZICguBef8A<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/atyygE3pdU\">pic.twitter.com\/atyygE3pdU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Loury (@GlennLoury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennLoury\/status\/1443365796231761922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the latest horrifying act of violence in his native Chicago, in which a CTA driver was beaten up by a group of black youths and a local columnist blasted the Democratic political leadership which has left the city a roiling cauldron of violence, economist and Brown University professor Glenn Loury fired a blistering attack on leftists who talk a good game but are nowhere to be found, snapping, \u201cThis is not \u2018systemic racism.\u2019 Rather, it\u2019s savagery running amok right in the center of my hometown, Chicago. The perpetrators are black youth. About this fiasco, there is not a mumbling word to be heard from the liberal anti-racists. I wonder why not.\u201dThis is not &#8220;systemic racism.&#8221; Rather, it&#8217;s savagery running amok right in the center of my hometown, Chicago. The perpetrators are black youth. About this fiasco, there is not a mumbling word to be heard from the liberal anti-racists. I wonder why not\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/rU2pbgbZ4N\u2014 Glenn Loury (@GlennLoury) December 9, 2021Loury was responding to columnist John Kass, who tweeted, \u201cLightfoot, Foxx, Preckwinkle, Pritzker, Judge Evans. Look at what your liberal policies have done to Chicago, city of anarchy. You\u2019ve killed the city. You make speeches about \u2018equity\u2019 Disgusting and shameless.\u201dLightfoot, Foxx, Preckwinkle, Pritzker, Judge Evans. Look at what your liberal policies have done to Chicago, city of anarchy. You\u2019ve killed the city. You make speeches about \u201cequity\u201dDisgusting and shameless https:\/\/t.co\/QvwPigHu1i\u2014 John Kass (@John_Kass) December 5, 2021As recently as December 2,\u00a0The Chicago Sun-Times reported, \u201cLast weekend, three people were shot dead and 26 were shot and wounded in Chicago. On Monday, nine more people were shot. On Tuesday, seven more people were shot. On Wednesday, 10 people more were shot, three fatally.\u201dLoury has not been shy about confronting those whom he feels are leading the black community astray; he has said of activist Al Sharpton, \u201cI think the politics of the Democratic Party is perfect for creating the careers of people like Al Sharpton, who broker the race card and the votes of black Democrats for the access that they can get and who played a certain kind of functional role in something that I think really poorly represents the interest of African-Americans rightly understood.\u201dLoury listed actions Sharpton could take but hasn\u2019t that would engender respect for him in Loury\u2019s perspective:If Al Sharpton were running around talking about charter schools; if he were running around urging African-Americans to adopt kids who don\u2019t have any parents; if he were insisting that it\u2019s possible for black kids compete effectively if they get the kind of instruction and support that they need to acquire the intellectual skills that allow them to compete in an exam school situation or anything like that; if he was going to find ex-offenders who were prepared to reject the gang life and affirm decent ways of living and foster relationships of guidance with young men who were not yet on the right path and so forth and so on; if he was working with the cops and not against the cops to try to keep the peace in some of these neighborhoods, I\u2019d have more respect for him.He continued, \u201cBut it\u2019s a very high-level shtick. He\u2019s refined it to perfection, and he\u2019s out Jesse Jacksoning Jesse Jackson in the twenty-first century while the clock keeps ticking on poor black people, and the demagoguery that spews out of him is almost completely unrelated to the actual material needs of this population.\u201dHe turned to Sharpton\u2019s buddy, President Joe Biden: \u201cJoe Biden is going to rescue inner-city Baltimore? Really? At the brokerage of Al Sharpton Joe Biden is going to save education for poor black people? Joe Biden is going to make it safe to walk on the South Side of Chicago after midnight because Al Sharpton is in the Oval Office?\u201dHere I am, explaining to @JohnHMcWhorter exactly what&#8217;s wrong with Al Sharpton (time was limited, so I had to keep it short!) See more at my new channel, https:\/\/t.co\/kM0UhXwAz4 and support this work at https:\/\/t.co\/ZICguBef8A pic.twitter.com\/atyygE3pdU\u2014 Glenn Loury (@GlennLoury) September 30, 2021The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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