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" And, why focus on "ACORN" and other far left organizations in Chicago which organized and mobilized "actions" against many south side Jews who were singled out as "slum lords" because they owned rental properties, and whose homes they picketed when they did not want to sell or give away their property for youth centers and other radical pet projects?"
I just love this quote. Seriously, its the fifth time I've read something bad about ACORN today. If I were to beleive the trolls, ACORN is singlehandidly responsible (under the tutelage of Obama, of course) for 1) creating a pogrom in South Side Chicago against the Jews 2) the mortgate crisis 3) and the wall street meltdown,
The first time I heard of ACORN was on Treasure Island when I spent a week training for the Clinton's Summer of Service Program. I don't remember a chapter in Oakland, but I wasn't a homebuyer at the time.
Anyhoo, I haven't heard of it since (sadly that week and and the summer in EBCC pretty much ended my foray in the nonprofit community service world.) I don't think most people have even heard of this organization much less know anything about its history or its aims. But earlier today I read they were leftist radicals who used financial blackmail to force banks to give loans to poor people.
And now the organization is a republican talking point. Sad, really.
