Now a suburban Chicago mayor has rescinded the Key to City awarded to Durk just a week prior...
From CBS News
Bellwood, Illinois Mayor Andre Harvey said he will not take the key back to his village until the legal process plays itself out. Meanwhile in Broadview, Illinois, Mayor Katrina Thompson wasted no time in withdrawing the key to her community from Durk.
At a ceremony last week, both mayors were on hand as Lil Durk was honored with the keys to both Bellwood and Broadview. The mayors took the time to pose for pictures with Lil Durk.
A partnership with the rapper's charity, Neighborhood Heroes Foundation, was announced in front of students from both communities.
"This is a momentous occasion to have Lil Durk with us in our community," Harvey said at the ceremony.
But the symbolic gesture was immediately met with backlash—even before news of Lil Durk's arrest on murder-for-hire charges.
"So are we glorifying that?" said Yvette Green of Bellwood, "Or are we saying that's OK?"
"He's not even from this—he's from the South Side," said Arnettra Westbrooks of Broadview.
Earlier this week, Mayor Thompson defended her decision to give Lil Durk the key to the village at the board meeting.
"I am a mayor, and am proud to have made that connection that is very valuable to our community," Thompson said at a meeting days ago.
8 comments:
The real question is why the hell did they give it to him in the first place?
What exactly was having this key supposed to be symbolic of and used for?
It’s time these mayors and governors and presidents and officials STOP with this bs! There are everyday ppl who are making strides and a difference in their community and they are overlooking them to honor gang members and celebrities so that they can appear to be cool and down to earth! STOP THIS SHYT! Just pandering to black ppl this is not what we want or care about we want change in our community and polices to help bring about change not you rubbing elbows with gang members who moonlight as rappers notice everybody who they give these keys and honorary degrees to who are celebs the end up having g to revoke them! It shows you don’t make good decisions and not a good judge of character. All those folks end up in trouble and scandals
And we not gone pretend like she was t aware of his reputation prior to this I don’t live nowhere near Chicago and I know of his reputation and that he BEEN a suspect in many shootings and unalivings in Chicago and Atlanta
Black folks, I swear...
I WONDER WILL SHE GIVE LD BACK THE FINANCIAL DONATIONS HE MADE THAT MORE LIKELY THAN NOT RESULTED IN HER GIVING HIM THE KEY TO THE CITY THAT SHE'S NOW RESCINDING
Only key that will work for Lil Dirty-O is the key to that cell. Not gonna happen.
MAYOR OF THE CHI BRANDON JOHNSON AIN'T GIVING BACK THE FINANCIAL DONATIONS LD CONTRIBUTED TO HIS CAMPAIGN
PROBABLY WAITING ON THE TRIAL LIKE THE MAYOR WHO IS RESCINDING THE KEY TO THE CITY LD HAD DONE A CHARITY EVENT FOR SHOULD'VE DONE
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