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Chicago’s South Side Although I am well-trained in the art and litical structures Bannon wants to destroy. science of hermeneutics (divining the mean- For me, Bannon’s Skype address in summer BY GRETCHEN RACHEL HAMMOND ing of texts or the utterances of gods) and of 2014 to a conference held in Vatican City have successfully tackled many obscure but by the conservative Catholic Institute for Hu- At 6 a.m. in the Chicago South Side neighbor- interesting clumps of words, I am stymied man Dignity most clearly presents the Ban- hood of Englewood, a 24-year-old transgender by Bannon-speak: “Darkness is good. Dick non agenda. (You can read Bannon’s entire woman of color, Tiara Lashaytheboss Richmond Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power. It address at BuzzFeed courtesy of J. Lester (aka Keke Collier), was shot dead while engag- only helps us when they get it wrong. When Feder updated Nov. 16, 2016.) ing in a job that, for a majority of transgender they’re blind to who we are and what we’re In this address, Bannon articulates his na- women of color who are shunned by schools, doing.” (Interview with Michael Wolff, The tionalist, populist manifesto which: churches, employers or, in some cases, their own Hollywood Reporter, Nov. 18, 2016.) — champions ‘true’ capitalism against the family, is their only means of survival—sex work Wolff interprets the ‘they’ in this Bannon crony capitalism of the current power/money or, as it is known locally, “on the stroll.” utterance to mean ‘liberals.’ To me, this iden- elite of the U.S., against the kleptocracy Richmond’s murder makes her the second trans- tification suggests that Bannon is saying that capitalism of Russia, against the totalitarian gender woman in as many years in Chicago, fol- ‘liberals’ don’t seem to understand the nature state capitalism of China, and against the lowing the 2015 murder of T.T. Saffore. She is the of power: how to get it, how to keep it, how DAVOS capitalism of the global elite; fourth transgender individual to have lost their to use it. And, that he—Bannon—does. With — urges war against jihadist Islamic fas- lives to violence in 2017. hindsight, it does seem to be an open ques- cism; Her story did not make any national headlines. tion as to whether the Democrats squandered — argues for a class-based, populist ‘in- Tiara Richmond. Early local reports from ABC misgendered her as the first two years of the Obama presidency surrection’ of the ruined and about-to-be male. That story has since been taken down. Photo from Trans Women of Color Collective’s when they had power: popular mandate for ruined middle classes of the U.S. and Europe FB page On the evening of Feb. 22, shortly before change and control of both houses of con- against the globalist power elite; President Trump and the Department of Justice gress. And, to give ‘the Dark One’ his due, — calls for a recommitment to the Judaeo- of the South and West sides would use the adult officially revoked Obama’s guidance on Title IX as Trump’s chief campaign strategist, Bannon Christian values that made the West great section of Backpage.com in order to avoid having transgender protections, a group of 20 family did help get Trump elected president. and are now being destroyed by corrupted to be out in the open and such open targets. members and friends gathered at 76th Street and As chief strategist and senior counselor to capitalism, uncontrolled immigration and to- On Jan. 17, 2017, Backpage.com closed its Stewart Avenue in a vigil for their fallen daughter President Trump, Steve Bannon is arguably talitarian, theocratic Islam. adult section. and friend. the most influential member of the White Some of the economic and social con- Suburban Police Chiefs like Michael Kilbourne Brave Space Alliance Executive Director and House team. So: What is the Bannon Agenda? cerns of this manifesto deserve appropriate of Carpentersville hailed it in reports from the tireless community advocate LaSaia Wade was “I’m a Leninist. ... Lenin wanted to destroy discussion. Michael Novak, the conservative Chicago Tribune as the shutting off of “an avenue among the attendees at the vigil that was as the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to Catholic political thinker who recently died, that lends itself to illegal and illicit activities.” much about mourning her loss as it was celebrat- bring everything crashing down, and destroy has written in-depth on several of these key However, Wade sees the closure as putting ing and remembering Richmond as a person. all of today’s establishment.” (Interview with matters. Novak proposed practicable rem- trans women and others engaged in sex work in “The family was grieving, but it wasn’t just Ronald Radosh, Daily Beast, Aug.