Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz
Watch Berkowitz discuss w/author Matt Rosenberg his new book: What Next, Chicago? Notes of a pissed-off Native Son, Cable & Web
Author Matt Rosenberg: The Chicago Teachers Union is the major obstacle to reform at CPS…
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Matt Rosenberg: I want Ray Lopez to run for Chicago Mayor. He is the one Chicago alderman [15th Ward] to call out the racial essentialism that Lori Lightfoot spouts. He says Chicago’s problem is the borderline breakdown of the family unit, and generational gang culture.
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Tonight’s City of Chicago cable edition of Public Affairs features author Matt Rosenberg. After growing up on the south side of Chicago’s Hyde Park, the long time home of the University of Chicago and then working in Chicago for about a decade, Matt spent almost three decades in the Pacific Northwest.
In the fall of 2020, amidst riots, looting, and an alarming uptick in senseless killings, Matt returned to his native Chicago to see if the City could dig itself out of the hot mess it became after decades of liberal governance.
Author and journalist Matt Rosenberg then observed a great deal of Chicago, interviewed a large, diverse group of Chicagoans (especially from the South Side) and did extensive additional research. The result is “What Next, Chicago? Notes of a pissed-off Native Son”, reviewed by, among others, Dennis Byrne [Former Chicago Sun-Times editorial board member], who wrote:
“[This book] is a coherent, honest and balanced tour of the City’s perpetual corruption, unsafe streets, gawd awful schools, ghost neighborhoods, financial legerdemain and the false Unified Theory of Systemic Racism that cloaks it all. Yet, [it’s] no helpless, hopeless wail, but a powerful and useful roadmap for a rebirth of a once-great city, based on the voices of Black families and others who don’t need academia to know what to do. Must reading for Chicago lovers.”
Show host Berkowitz interviewed Rosenberg ten days ago, primarily about the portion of the book dealing with (1) the Chicago Public Schools’ long-term dramatic failure to teach most of its minority students to read, write and do math at grade level and (2) Chicago’s and Cook County’s failure to arrest, prosecute and keep violent criminals off so many of the streets of Chicago and a significant portion of the rest of Cook County.
You can watch the show 24/7 by clicking here
That show also airs in Chicago on Cable Ch 21 (CAN TV)
— Tonight at 8:30 pm and midnight
–-Tmw night, 9 pm (as the 1st 30 min of Illinois Channel’s 2 hr package)
–Saturday, 9 am (as the 1st 30 min of Illinois Channel’s 2 hr package)
— and Sunday, 8:30 am, but this airing (as the 1st 30 min of Illinois Channel’s 2 hr package) is on Cable Ch 19 (CAN TV).
You can also watch the show 24/7 by clicking here and
In Aurora, this Wed. and Saturday, 6 pm, Aurora Cable Ch 10In Rockford and surrounding areas, this Thursday, 8:30 pm, Cable Ch 17Please check back later this week for details of the show’s airings on Monday and Wednesday of next week in Highland Park and on Tuesday of next week in 25 Chicago Metro N and NW suburbs.
The first part of a partial transcript show, dealing with many of Chicago’s education issues, is included, below. Education is discussed in the 1st part of the show.
We will follow up during the next few days with a post of the 2nd part of the partial transcript dealing with Chicago’s education issues.
Finally, we will follow up a few days later with a third post of a partial transcript dealing with many of Chicago’s crime, court and prosecution issues, which are covered in the 2nd half of our show with author Matt Rosenberg.
Matt Rosenberg…Like many institutions in Chicago, The Chicago Mayor and CPS fudge the numbers: they trumpet an 82 % CPS graduation rate when [1] less than one in five black CPS students [and less than one in four Latino CPS students] reach the level of proficient on the nation’s report card- The National Assessment of Education Progress in 4th and 8th grades -and when [2] the level of SAT results for 11th graders are equally disastrous for CPS students.
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Matt Rosenberg: [There were] numerous other personal success stories that I heard from Black and Latino people on the south side of Chicago. They value “Faith and Family.” Where I went the extra mile in this book… was my going to socio-cultural aspects and talking about things that are commonly understood in minority communities- what might be called conservative values that have always been present in minority communities but are essentially censored from mainstream media coverage and public conversation.
From “Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz,” recorded in the Chicago Loop offices of RESIDCO on November 19, 2021
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