Another Tribune editorial. Nothing new happening here

The Trib Editorial 'Another march in Chicago. Is something happening here?' sticks its toe on the water of empathy for the century long disintegration of life on Chicago's South and West sides. But like the highly insensitive and utterly unhelpful op eds by Trib Editorial Board member Kristin McQueary, the sole focus of this editorial is for "Chicago voters to hold elected officials accountable." That is not much different than telling the defeated citizens of WWII Berlin to 'hold their elected officials accountable' for the rubble they were living in. The South and West Siders didn't create the dozens of WWII like square miles of devastation, the double digit unemployment, the double digit incarceration of young minority males, the thousands of shootings and hundreds of murders yearly thanks to tens of thousands of available guns. To say it's all up to the mayor and 50 alderman to magically come up with Marshall Plan type investment, social services, jobs, reduction of ubiquitous gun availability is preposterous, callous and a solution non-starter. The Trib brings home this point in its last line: "We also don’t know whether Chicagoans will look back on two summer protests as dimly remembered distractions. Or maybe they become turning points for a divided city." The 'Chicagoans' referenced are solely those of privilege; the only ones who could possibly contemplate the protests as 'dimly remembered distractions.' The hundreds of thousands crammed into the shame of Chicago and America will likely be too busy burying their dead, finding habitable housing, searching for a semblance of health care, and visiting their loved ones in prison to ever view the current marches as dimly remembered distractions.