strannik01: (Black X)
2023-06-01 10:50 pm

Asylum-seekers and racial tensions in Chicago’s Black neighborhoods

Crossposted from Livejournal

Over the past few months, Chicago has been dealing with waves of migrants from Central and South American countries, many of them bused in by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. The African-American backlash to the  proposal to set up shelters in majority-Black Woodlawn and, more recently, majority-Black South Shore has been covered extensively on the news, but the migrants have been arriving in the Austin  community area as well.

This is going to require a bit of context )