Chicago pastor forced into hiding after endorsing Bruce Rauner for governor

One would think this story would carry a dateline from the 1960's. A black minister and his family are threatened for his political activity. A black church is burglarized and vandalized. This is not Birmingham in 1963; it's Chicago in 2014. The Rev. Corey Brooks, pastor of the New Beginnings Church of Chicago, has broken ties with the Democratic Party and endorsed GOP candidate Bruce Rauner for governor. Since then he has had to move his family to a secret location following a series of threatening phone calls.

“We on you boy, we on you. And you ain’t got nobody that can stop us, nobody. Who you go [to] the deacons? They can’t stop us. We going to beat your fat a– in front of your mama congregation Sunday. Yeah we going to steal the sheep of the hypocrite. You’s a hypocrite we going to beat your fat a– in front of your own congregation. Who you got that…f— we going to beat their a– too. They can’t protect you. You sell out you Uncle Tom a– n—–. You token. You a puppet for Bruce Rauner you puppet n—– a–. P—- a– n—–,” the voice says on the recording.

On Saturday he was notified that his church had been burglarized and $8,000 stolen from a special glass offering box.