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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Pastor Brooks on how D.E.I. policies are hurting his community

The Chicago Way

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News & Politics, News, Columnist, Politics, Carlin, Plus, Wgn, Jeff, Tribune, John, Chicago, The, Kass, Radio, Way

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (03/01/24): Corey Brooks, the Founder and Senior Pastor at New Beginnings Church & the Founder/CEO of Project H.O.O.D, joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin to talk about a brilliant piece he wrote titled “America Works. DEI Doesn’t.” Pastor Brooks also explains how politicians like Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson abandon his cause after they get […]

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The man who was on the rooftop for a long time and is trying to raise money for the community center and the south side is a man named Corey Brooks, Pastor Corey Brooks. He is the founder of New Beginings Church and the

0:16.2

CEO of Project Hood in Chicago. And he's on with us today at the Chicago Way to talk about one thing that's near and dear to my heart,

0:27.3

racial discrimination masquerading as kindness. And Jeff Carlin of WGM radio and the co-host here, my

0:37.4

co-host here, has come up with a great idea, the Democratic National

0:41.7

Counter Convention in Chicago.

0:45.0

And where are you?

0:48.0

As Mayor Brandon Johnson kills the shot spotter and the gangs keep killing innocent people, black people

0:58.5

mostly on the city's streets. You're on the Chicago Way podcast on WGM Plus.

1:06.3

So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this Tammany Hall style attitude to power and it is it's the

1:16.2

Chicago way absolutely. The Chicago way is a deep cultural phenomenon.

1:23.4

It's the Chicago Way.

1:24.8

The Chicago Way, that's the focus.

1:27.2

In a tower by the river, there lived a man.

1:30.2

That's a man. There was a man who took a stand with pen and paper in his hand,

1:40.0

defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword.

1:46.0

No escape from his ink lasso.

1:49.0

In a tower by the river, Castle.

1:53.2

He's how you get him.

1:55.2

He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, you send one of yours to the hospital, you say,

1:59.1

one of hiss to the morgue.

2:00.5

Thats, they should back away.

2:12.0

Pastor Brooks, what is going on with DEI in America and why does it upset you so much? Well, you know, the fact that D.I is at the forefront of a lot of companies, corporations,

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