Watched Candyman the other day and ended up digging on some dark shit
The original movie has a part where Candyman comes through a bathroom mirror and kills a lady in the projects
But that's a true story, sort of
Ruthie May McCoy lived in the ABLA high-rise projects in Chicago
Was shot and killed
Turns out that if you removed the bathroom mirror cabinet in that building, it opened up to a hollow space where one could travel from residence to residence
Her phone was stolen AFTER the cops left the crime scene
https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/they-came-in-through-the-bathroom-mirror/
Which made me think
The architects planned it that way, for "pipe access"
Through the looking glass?
Interdasting.
Cabrini Green was the high-rise project where Candyman was filmed
"Girl X" was a 9 year old that was tortured in the stairwell, I'll spare those details
Place was notorious for open air drug markets
Absolute shit hole
All smells ripe for a CIA den
Even came with its own propaganda in the form of the show Good Times
Pruitt Igoe was the high-rise project in St. Louis
Built by Minoru Yamasaki, the guy who designed the WTC towers
Projects consisted of 33 eleven-story buildings
Sprayed with zinc cadmium sulfate by the military
This happened in 1953
The same year Robert Rayford was born
16 year old from St. Louis was the first case of HIV/AIDS in North America
High rise projects were basically concentration camps for black/low income people
Residents subjected to gangs (CIA), drugs/crack epidemic (CIA), violence and child sex assault (CIA)
Housing wouldn't maintain anything, cops rarely came
Talk about PTSD and other mental illness, physical illness from these places
These places were built to fail
I'll go one further and say these places were meant to induce psychological trauma while doubling as a testing grounds
So whose idea was this?
Seems to go back to the Housing Act of 1937, which gave government permission to tear down slums and, well, "build back better"
Also gave permission for government subsidized housing
Bill was sponsored by:
Catherine Bauer Wurster
Henry B. Steagall (D-NY)
Robert F. Wagner (D-NY)
Prior to this housing act, Henry Steagall worked with Carter Glass to implement the Glass-Steagall Act
Also known as the 1933 Banking Act
Carter Glass opens up an entirely new can of worms considering he was friends with Henry Morgenthau and neighbors with Charles Marsh (Finders, LBJ) on DuPont Circle in DC
Started digging because of a horror flick
Ended with crimes against humanity
But let's keep blaming racism on Trump