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Obama Presidential CenterConstruction suspended after slipknot discovered
Construction of the first black American president’s headquarters in Chicago is halted. The group of entrepreneurs present on the site say they are “horrified” and promise a big reward.
The construction site of the future Barack Obama Presidential Center, inaugurated in August 2021, is located in Jackson Park, on the shores of Lake Michigan, in the disadvantaged neighborhood of the South Side, where the former president began his career as an associative activist and where he is raised former First Lady Michelle Obama.
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The construction of the future Barack Obama Presidential Center was suspended on Friday in Chicago after the discovery of an executioner’s rope, a very violent racist symbol in the United States, the promoters of the project announced. “We are horrified that this could have happened on our site and are offering a $100,000 reward to find the person or people responsible,” said Lakeside Alliance, a group of black contractors.
The noose-shaped rope, which evokes the lynchings of thousands of African Americans in the late 1800s and early 2000s, was uncovered Thursday morning in the neighborhood where the career of the first black US president debuted – United . “We do not tolerate racism and hate,” Lakeside Alliance said, adding that it suspended the site for awareness sessions with its teams.
“Hatred has no place in Illinois,” tweeted the Democratic governor of this state in the Great Lakes region, JB Pritzker. “This rope is more than a racist symbol – it’s a stark reminder of the violence and terror inflicted on black Americans for centuries.”
In a disadvantaged neighborhood
The future Obama Presidential Center, expected to open in 2025, will bring together a museum dedicated to the career of the former Democratic president (2009-2017), a library, classrooms and meeting rooms, around a basketball court and a playground. construction site, started in August 2021, is located in Jackson Park, on the shores of Lake Michigan, in the disadvantaged neighborhood of the South Side, where the former president began his career as an associative activist and where former First Lady Michelle grew up Obama.
(AFP)
