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.

Caprini 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

Happened in 1953

Same year Robert Rayford was born

Teenager from St Louis that was the first known HIV/AIDS case 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

>>14629530

Indeed.

>>14629623

Chicago is also a place that has had a number of historically troubled and ill-fated affordable housing developments, Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes. At its height, Cabrini-Green was home to 20,000 people, living in mid- and high-rise apartment buildings. Over the years, gang violence and neglect created terrible conditions for the residents, and the name Cabrini-Green became symbolic of the problems associated with public housing in this country.

During the worst years of Cabrini-Green's miseries, residents endured rat and cockroach infestations, rotting garbage in trash chutes (once piled up to the 15th floor), the stench of urine and insecticide in hallways, malfunctioning elevators, graffiti on walls, as well as problems with basic utilities, such as frequently bursting pipes.

On the exterior, boarded-up windows, burned-out areas on the façade, and pavement instead of green spaceall in the name of economizing on maintenancecreated an atmosphere of neglect and decay. The high "open galleries" proved to be so dangerous that eventually, the Chicago Housing Authority enclosed the entire height of the buildings with a steel mesh, which increased the perception that the residents were imprisoned.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080529205351/http://www.hud.gov/offices/ogc/kgottfriedremarksatmultihousingworld092206.pdf

I refuse to believe this was simply mismanagement.

This was the intended outcome.

This was just Cabrini Green.

>>14629795

It's a Weiner

Stacey Bendet Weiner

Digs already out there on her Keith Haring line

>>14629923

After seeing what they did to Bill Cosby, it wouldn't surprise me to find out OJ was set up as well

He was the whitest black dude in the world at the time

Can't be having that now