CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- White supremacist flyers have been found in a couple of Southwest Side neighborhoods this week, and a Chicago alderman is calling out whoever distributed them. Nineteenth Ward Ald. Matt O’Shea said Wednesday he heard from people who found flyers on their cars, with the headline, “No White Guilt.”The flyers listed websites that "opposed anti-whiteism" and websites that "identify anti-whites,” he said.
O'Shea said the flyers were found on car doors in Mt. Greenwood and West Beverly.
“I immediately instructed my staff to go out, start walking those blocks and surrounding blocks, collecting any more if they found them. They literally brought back, there must have been a hundred out there."Ald. O’Shea said his community will not stand for such divisiveness. "Clearly, this is an orchestrated effort by some type of hate organization looking to be divisive and to create racial strife," he said.
His office is making available its own signs for peoples’ homes. They say: “Hate Has No Home in the 19th Ward.”
“I’ve received hundreds of requests for those signs that people want to place in their windows. It’s not who we are. It’s not what our community is about,” he said.O'Shea said he has called the Chicago Commission on Human Relations and the Chicago Police Department to report what happened. He acknowledged that whoever is passing out the flyers is legally allowed to do so.One resident spotted a person distributing the flyers, the alderman says. The person was described as a white man between 50 and 60 years old, driving a dented black pickup truck.
O’Shea said some of the same kinds of flyers were distributed last month in the southwest suburbs of Oak Forest and Tinley Park.