'She said, "Don't come back." Well, I'm
going to come back'
News-Gazette,
by
Jim Dey
Original Article
Posted By: qr4j,
2/17/2022 12:03:44 PM
CHAMPAIGN — Albert Morr and his wife, Claudia, disturbed by a recent shootout in their University Avenue neighborhood, went to Tuesday evening’s Champaign City Council meeting expecting sympathy and hoping for help. What they received instead — from council members Alicia Beck and Michael Foellmer — was a lecture on their moral failings and advice to keep their thoughts to themselves until they change
Reply 1 - Posted by:
billa57 2/17/2022 12:17:53 PM (No. 1074619)
Democrats answer is 'Just get used to it or we will brand you a racist' . So pathetic!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jebediah 2/17/2022 12:18:40 PM (No. 1074621)
Until voters get smart and vote these self satisfied virtue signaling CONTROLLING people out, this will continue to happen! That's also the way I feel about Canada and Trudeau and all the rest: really examine what your candidates say and do and have done, don't just hit the D or R without thought., I have friends who did that with the AG in NYC a few months ago and now they are realizing what they have wrought.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
slipstik 2/17/2022 12:23:28 PM (No. 1074626)
I would have pointed out that the black and brown group doesn't pay the salaries of those two morons, the white folk are the taxpayers. Obviously, the tribal people use their welfare money to buy ammo to shoot through whitey's windows.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Californian 2/17/2022 12:27:28 PM (No. 1074629)
She cares about black and brown babies? Ok, great.
What has she ever done for black and brown babies?
Nothing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 2/17/2022 12:29:05 PM (No. 1074631)
Oh sure, like a White interloper from another neighborhood would have any standing about the crap that goes on daily in the Black and Brown neighborhoods. Just showing up at their meetings would be a personal risk. So yeah, they waited till it spilled into their bullet-riddled front window before they went to their neighborhood meeting to express their concerns. And for the record - nothing is being done in the minority neighborhoods anyway. Beck and Foellmer should be removed IMMEDIATELY!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
sw penn 2/17/2022 12:45:56 PM (No. 1074644)
Amazing how democrats just looooooove
to make voters haaaaaate democrats,
aint it?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 2/17/2022 12:46:50 PM (No. 1074646)
Yes we will defund and take away your police so shut up and stop whining about it you white privileged supremacist racists. Now off you go and don't forget to vote for me so I can taunt you some more.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pensom2 2/17/2022 12:58:04 PM (No. 1074665)
I looked her up. She's white leftist, elected in 2017: "Beck says some of her backers want Champaign to explore the idea of becoming a sanctuary city."
https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/new-city-council-member-beck-wants-champaign-to-become-sanctuary-city
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Highlander 2/17/2022 12:59:28 PM (No. 1074666)
What a racist pig is that woman!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Mushroom 2/17/2022 1:04:59 PM (No. 1074670)
Why would they want to speak about a different area? They don't live there so they have no first hand knowledge.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2022 1:08:36 PM (No. 1074677)
Time to get a new representative to replace the idiot that is there now.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 2/17/2022 1:32:44 PM (No. 1074704)
Democrat racists in Illinois. Imagine that. Mr. Morr might consider better who he votes for next time. According to the article, he praised the city’s social programs. Good grief!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
kono 2/17/2022 1:44:16 PM (No. 1074723)
While there is some merit to the notion that we ought to have meaningful concern about the problems in other people's lives, if we don't take ownership of the problems in ours, then we just become a nation of insufferably broken busybodies (all of us having screwed up lives but spending our energy telling others what needs to be fixed in theirs).
A key feature of American Liberty is that the principle of "pursuit of happiness" allows each of us to decide what we consider the relative value of things to us and not to have somebody else presume to decide that for us. Minding your own business, except where it affects mine. And vice-versa. It's the only way that can possibly work at all.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
qr4j 2/17/2022 1:44:55 PM (No. 1074725)
Just a reminder: Albert and Claudia Morr were victims of gun violence in their home. A bullet went through one of the windows in their house. Fortunately, neither of them were hurt. They had a legitimate reason to bring their concerns to the City Council of Champaign.
Contrary to the claims of one city council member who berated the Morrs, they do not live in an upper middle class section of town. Within a few blocks of downtown, University Avenue has large old homes and their owners have money. But further west, the homes are nice but modest, owned by working people.
I lived for 14 years in a "challenged" neighborhood in the City of Champaign. I am white. In that neighborhood, I was a minority. That is fine. But what was not fine was all the crime that my neighbors -- of many races and ethnicities -- had to endure. In my time there, there were several murders within a block or two of my home. The house to the east was a drug den. The house to the west was derelict. I heard gunshots nearly every week.
My concerns were that anyone -- black, brown, white, or whatever -- would get robbed, assaulted, or murdered.
These two city council members disgust me.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Newtsche 2/17/2022 1:51:02 PM (No. 1074732)
The article and the council didn't cite any examples of black and brown babies being shot. Maybe they refer to twenty year olds as babies, altogether possible. So the council calls for shooting black and brown babies to justify the council's navel gazing?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
curious1 2/17/2022 1:58:18 PM (No. 1074743)
The word bigot applies to those two council members. And fool. And demo-commie. And discriminatory; not in a normal way, either.
Use those two words correctly instead of that commie created 'raycist' word the demo-commies love so much.
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Beck's autobiography describes her pretty much as a selfrighteous jerkette.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Birddog 2/17/2022 2:23:12 PM (No. 1074775)
Yo, itch....these particular black and brown "babies" chased each other from YOUR district into mine...shooting at each other all the way! YOU likely know them or their families.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 2/17/2022 2:49:03 PM (No. 1074785)
I grew up in Champaign in the 50’s and 60’s - graduated from Champaign High and the University of Illinois. For a while, in the neighboring city of Urbana, I was a police officer. Poster 14 is right: University Avenue at Mattis is about a mile from where I was raised, and it’s solid blue-collar working folks. But starting about 20 years ago, when several large Chicago housing projects shut down because of the crime and squalor generated by its residents, Champaign and several other cities near it were the designated new homes of all those former residents of the defunct housing projects. They brought their way of life with them - crime, drugs, illegitimacy, welfare dependence - and Champaign has been going downhill ever since. The city council members who turn a blind eye to the mayhem caused by these people are a disgrace.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 2/17/2022 3:13:09 PM (No. 1074809)
So, in other words, according to these two council members, White communities are relatively crime free and safe but Black neighborhoods are cesspools of crime and violence.
If a White person went to a council meeting and asked what they could do to help bring crime and violence down in a Black community, THAT THEY DIDN'T LIVE IN, they would be called racist White Supremacists
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/17/2022 6:23:35 PM (No. 1074983)
The fact that the shooting was in a white neighborhood should concern the City Council even more than the usual "minority neighborhood" area shootings. If the crime and shooting has spread to the good neighborhoods, Champaign has a big problem. The council needs to take equally serious the crime concerns of Black and White citizens. Minority issues shouldn't take priority over everything just because it is politically correct. Th
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I sent a kindly worded email to Champaign Mayor Deb Feinen. She called me back. She agreed that any citizen of Champaign should be able to present their concerns to city officials without being berated.