Forty Easters ago in Chicago, an Easter egg hunt went about as bad as an Easter egg hunt can go.
I didn’t post this last weekend, as I didn’t want to besmirch Easter by associating it with the late Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, who inspired one of the most on-point protest slogans of all time.
We’ve all heard, “This is what democracy looks like!” We’ve all heard, “No justice, no peace!”
But this was the first time we heard, “We need jobs, not eggs.”
Just before Byrne’s patronizing and tone-deaf Easter celebration inevitably devolved into police mayhem, in the exciting and ignominious culmination of an asinine stunt that Byrne pulled by moving into the Cabrini Green housing project, with her husband.
It has to be seen to be believed. Even if you’ve seen it before.
Recorded in 1981 and immortalized on the wonderful video archive Media Burn my friend Tom Weinberg, one guy I haven’t talked seen since COVID began but who I hope to see the second it ends.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.