WOKE-ON-WOKE FRATRICIDE.

One has to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

The city of Chicago is violating the civil rights of its residents by relocating polluting businesses from white communities into Black and Latino areas that already are overwhelmed with environmental and health issues, federal officials have found after a nearly two-year investigation.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is demanding that Chicago change its unlawful planning, zoning and land-use policies so they don’t discriminate against communities of color, according to a letter HUD sent to the city.

If Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration doesn’t agree to work on a plan to overhaul its processes and policies, City Hall could lose hundreds of millions in federal housing money.

That's the Jarrett regency's Department of Housing and Urban Development, meaning Chicago Combine politicians pulling Brandon's strings, getting into a woker-than-thou tussle with the local Combine politicians.

At the center of the tussle is a business relocation where a prima facie case of gentrification might be present.

The investigation was sparked by a complaint from community organizers who challenged the city’s role in the planned relocation of the General Iron metal-shredding business from mostly white Lincoln Park to a majority-Latino Southeast Side community surrounded by Black neighborhoods.

“These actions continued a broader policy of shifting polluting activities from white neighborhoods to Black and Hispanic neighborhoods despite the latter already experiencing a disproportionate burden of environmental harms,” according to the HUD letter, obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

There used to be a serious iron and steel business in the vicinity of Goose Island, but of late, that's part of the enclave of fifteen square miles of privilege surrounded by the Third World.  The southeast side?  (Yes, there is one in Chicago.)  If you watch Chicago P. D., dear reader, whenever there's a shootout or a body buried in the shadow of the grain elevators, that's where you are, and that area has long been Exit Zero, and an afterthought for Chicago's ruling circles.

The city didn’t listen to residents on the heavily industrial Southeast Side who argued that they couldn’t welcome another polluting industrial operation, HUD said.

“The city ignored key substantive concerns throughout the process,” the letter said. “Disparities in environmental burdens and their health effects were well known by the city and raised by residents and experts, yet the city took significant actions towards the relocation without considering how the relocation would exacerbate those disparities.”

Despite neighbors’ complaints prior to the Lincoln Park site’s closing in 2020, Emanuel’s and Lightfoot’s administrations both dismissed concerns from Southeast Side residents, according to HUD.

“The city’s disregard for the Southeast [Side] residents’ concerns stands in contrast to the city’s receptiveness to the complaints of the Lincoln Park residents that the relocation aimed to address,” the HUD letter said.

Whether this federal case is a straightforward application of social justice principles or indicative of a faction fight between Combine people in Washington and Combine people still in Chicago remains to be seen.