“Opponents repeatedly riffed on the project for containing only people who earn less than $26,300, rather than a mix of wage earners,” Wed. Journal says, in coverage of a public hearing at OP village hall about proposed conversion of an office building for low-income housing.
The writer wants to say that many made the same argument, but this is “riff” as “comment,” which is many steps removed from what the musician does with a series of chords. He plays it again and again — which makes “repeatedly” redundant, by the way — to the presumed enjoyment of listeners.
On another point, the article gives a location as the 1100 block of Ridgeland. South or North?
Blithe Spirit 
Dear Jim,
Reading the linked piece, my reservations about the writer’s style were soon buried amid concerns for your community. I wrote a 456-word comment, only to discover that there’s a 500-character limit on comments. That forced me to limit myself to a brief passage. I hope that you will not be offended if I post the complete version here.
I am aware that people routinely beat around the bush about this sort of thing, but after 50 years of beating around the bush, America is running out of time.
Thanks,
Nicholas
Since I don’t live in Oak Park, but have read about it for years, my opinion counts the most.
Well, if certain people are going to say that based on ridiculous pretext A, B, C…, people who disagree with them have no right to speak, two can play that game.
But I do have the advantage of not having to fear public condemnation and harassment by best-version-of-ourselfers.
The best-version-of-ourselfers who rabidly support this project are using deceit and moral intimidation: The project, er, structure, ‘would house our kids and people just like them from Oak Park, and only a vicious racist would care, anyway.’
The building would not be home to folks like you. As one commenter noted, HUD doesn’t do that. Each occupant would not only be poor, but so dependent and dysfunctional as to require his own personal social worker. Including HUD’s involvement, that’s three red flags right there. You are guaranteed to get exclusively the worst of the worst.
OP is already in danger, and the people pushing this project seek to turn it into a full-fledged diversitopia.
Already, racist black thugs have been swooping down from Chicago and other nearby communities, beating and robbing OPers in formerly crime-free neighborhoods, when the latter seek to walk their dogs at 8:30 p.m. Eight-thirty at night!
With this project, the criminals will no longer have to travel to OP. And the best-version-of-ourselfers will be among the first to sell and skedaddle to another community, which they can then also destroy.
And more such projects will follow in OP.
Do the residents considering this project have any idea how many predominantly white communities, which had thrived for a century or more, have been destroyed nationwide in the course of a mere couple of years by such insanity? I’ve been studying the matter for years, and my estimate keeps rocketing. I now believe that it’s in the thousands.
Anyone who wants a peek into the future should read Left Behind in Rosedale: Race Relations and the Collapse of Community Institutions, by sociologist Scott Cummings. Left Behind has something for everyone. Cummings is a good academic socialist, so he has PC rationalizations for the best-version-of-ourselfers, but he’s also a member of the vanishing breed of honest social scientists studying race, and so he presents the more-or-less unvarnished facts of black-on-white race war.
The best-version-of-ourselfers might more accurately be called the worst-of-all-possible-worlders.
To those of you with an honest bone in your body: Do not let the best-version-of-ourselfers racially intimidate you, or permit their lies to pass unchallenged. (Why is it that morally superior lefties always feel compelled to lie?) Not only your property values, but your very lives and the lives of your loved ones are at stake.
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