West Cook News

You might think that a self-described polymath would be capable of making logical arguments and not feel the perpetual need to resort to histrionics and profanity-laced tirades. However, in the case of Oak Park Village Trustee Arti Walker-Peddakotla, you’d be wrong.

In addition to being a self-described polymath, Arti (short for Artificial?) is also a self-described community organizer, which is a duplicitous euphemism for agitator.

The Kamala Harris wannabe is, like Harris, of Indian descent and, like Harris, has seized the politically advantageous opportunity to identify with the black community by expressing ardent support for the deceptively named “Black Lives Matter” movement.

Do Black lives matter? Of course, they do. The question is, does the far-left agenda of Black Lives Matter contribute anything to the advancement of Black people, Black families, and the Black community? And the answer to that question is: decidedly not.

Walker-Peddakotla was at her irrational best at the Jan. 19 meeting of the Oak Park village trustees when sobbingly denouncing a proposed ballot referendum asking citizens if they want to defund the village’s police force.

See if you can follow this polymathic logic: AWP, the community organizer, favors defunding the police. What she opposes, apparently, is giving members of the community she seeks to organize any chance to express their opinions on the matter.

The problem is that the majority of the public might not share her radical views, and all that organizing work she’s done might start to unravel. AWP wants to organize the community whether the community wants her to or not, and expects it to stay organized.

“When you put defunding the police on the ballot for a survey question, you’re really asking the community, ‘do you agree with Black Lives Matter or not?’” That was AWP’s nonsensical explanation for her opposition.

“This board should just be so (expletive) ashamed,” she added, before voting against the measure with a vulgarity-enhanced negative.

The proposal passed, however, so the community will soon get a chance to let the condescending polymath know how they feel about her organizing.