The million-dollar block
is where CVLS David Gotzh said was an up and coming block that would give Zion
the life that he needed and deserved. Judge Susan Kennedy-Sullivan, under the
supervision of Chief Judge Evans has spent years making sure that young black
boys like Zion help to make sure that more million-dollar blocks are made.
What is a million-dollar
block? Millions allocated to incarcerate residents on individual city blocks.
In Chicago, over five years from 2005-2009, there were: 851 blocks with over $1
million committed to prison sentences 121 blocks with over $1 million committed
to prison sentences for non-violent drug offenses.
79th and Essex are one,
and this is where they sent Zion to live. I know that for many of you, this is
something that is hard to understand as you feel that this issue does not
affect you. That is until you are looking down the other end of a gun, and you
ask yourself how? We have a court system in place in cook County that has one
purpose; that is to lock up and send as many young black males downstate.
If these were not black
boys, something would be done; if you took the time out of your day to go and
spend one hour in a courtroom, you would see that judges like Susan
Kennedy-Sullivan are not trying to help as these same judges have stock in the
prison system.
Nowhere is this nation is
the schoolyard to prison pipeline clearer than in Chicago:
Not only are the highest
incarceration rates concentrated on the city’s west and south sides, but this
spatial unevenness has held constant for more than two decades. 1 As a result,
most urban residents with felony convictions come from and return to a small
number of neighborhoods. The impact on residents is dramatic. In parts of
Chicago’s West Side, nearly 70 percent of men between ages 18 and 54 are likely
to have been subject to the criminal justice system
What does Chief Judge
Evans has to say about this; nothing; as he has for over one-year, refuse to
talk with me about this; and since no one in the so-called media cares enough
to ask the critical question this goes unchecked.
Slaver has not ended as
these young men of color are sent back down to the southern part of the state
as these small towns make they're living off the backs of young blackbucks.
The reason we have a
probate court for minor was to help keep these young people out of DCFS and out
of the systems. However, under Judges like Susan Kennedy-Sullivan, over 80
percent of black males that go through the probate court end up at some point
in their life going into DCFS and the DOC system. Over 80 percent, that is a
system that is and will keep on failing as it was never set out to
succeed.
If you want to read more
about this and if you think this is not real check out the
https://chicagosmilliondollarblocks.com/
As you will see that when a young man pulls up in a car and unload 20 rounds into a store; these young men
are a product of cook county probate court; under Chief Judge Evans; and highly
unqualify judges such as Susan Kennedy-Sullivan and lawyer like CVLS David
Gotzh are tools used to keep the constant cycling of black men in and out of prison
in neighborhoods like the block were Zion was sent to live.