Of all of the positive, non-celeb, law-abiding African-American adult men (from investment manager Marc Brooks to pastor Corey Brooks to civil activist Cobe Williams to morning radio personality Leon Rogers) that play a role in shaping a larger part of the city’s narrative, the producers of CNN’s “Chicagoland” couldn’t find one non-rapping, non-ball-playing black male over thirty to profile in their eight-hour, eight-part docuseries? It was as if normal black men went from a species endangered to a species extinct.
