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I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.
I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.
What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.
