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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
“This is about black labor versus white wealth. That’s what this battle is about,” Brandon Johnson framed the mayoral election as a race war at a debate with his opponent.
Johnson, a top official at Chicago’s radical teachers’ union, had plenty of money. As a Cook County Commissioner, Johnson was already earning $100,000 a year, another $100,000 from the Chicago Teachers Union, plus $25,000 for his work as a lobbyist. He’s also eligible for a $1.1 million pension for teaching for only four years. It wasn’t about wealth, it was about race.
Behind in the polls due to his pro-crime stance, Johnson made the campaign into a series of racist taunts, smears and accusations. Johnson charged his opponent with being “dismissive of a black man” and claimed that critics of his pro-crime policies were engaging in “yet another attack on a black man as an elected leader”. And racism paid off for Johnson.
While Paul Vallas, a sensible and far more qualified moderate, won the white and Latino vote, Johnson, a leftist racist bent on destroying whatever was left of Chicago, won the black vote.
Many Chicago pastors, seeing the bloody violence in the streets, had endorsed Vallas in the hope that he would stop the killing, but Al Sharpton and other racist radicals promoted Johnson. As did the CTU which had spent generations exploiting children and robbing taxpayers to make officials like Johnson so powerful and wealthy. Johnson was the CTU’s victory over Chicago.
Whenever Johnson was asked any hard questions, he pivoted right back to black supremacism.
“When black men tell you the truth, believe us,” he insisted, denying the impact of his economic policies. To defend the school closures that devastated a generation of children, Johnson claimed that, “A lot of black people and brown people died. We wanted to make sure that black and brown people in particular did not continue to die.” In that, as in so much else, he failed.
After crawling into office on gutter racism, Johnson stayed there. He ran his campaign on a promise to go easy on criminals because they were victims of racism and he delivered.
When mobs of rioters looted stores, smashed cars and assaulted people, Mayor Johnson complained that harsh language was being used toward “children”. He claimed that “it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities”. More recently he described the armed rioters as taking part in “large gatherings”.
When the “children” and “youth” took to stealing cars, including armed carjacking, Johnson responded by suing car companies whom his administration blamed for making cars too easy for his criminal constituents to steal.
The racist mayor continued to justify the criminal behavior by suggesting that it was a black thing. “I’ve been a public school teacher, and sometimes you have a number of students who want to find spaces where they can cut up,” Johnson, who had only worked for four years as a social studies teacher, claimed. “You have to Google that. It’s like black terminology.”
‘Cut up’ is actually English slang. Variations of it go as far back as Shakespeare and Dickens. If Johnson were actually qualified to teach anything, use Google or be any more than a racist union hack, he would know that. But it’s consistent with the racist mayor using race as a sword and shield, an attack and defense, a suggestion that anything people object to about him or the consequences of his pro-crime policies is a ‘black thing’ that they couldn’t understand.
However you translate it, Chicago is a disaster. Crime is up 39% as people are being cut up, cut down, shot and beaten by opportunity-starved youths, and a potential budget shortfall is approaching $1 billion. 42% of the city’s budget is going to pensions and interest on debt.
Much of that comes from Johnson’s own notoriously greedy Chicago Teachers Union. After their 2019 strike, senior teachers are expected to make six figures this year. CTU members will score $84,313 after five years which rises to almost $100,000 after ten years on the job of not teaching kids. CTU is not only destroying children: it’s also destroying the future of the city.
CTU abused its political power to rob the pensions of its own members with a ‘pension holiday’ and then imposed a special property tax to subsidize its pensions without having to go through the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. Chicago property taxes have doubled in a decade, and CTU’s pensions are still more underfunded than ever to the tune of $13 billion.
Johnson ran for office on the CTU agenda of raising property taxes even more with $400 million in real estate taxes that he misleadingly described as a “mansion tax” on buildings over $1 million which in reality would have raised rents in most apartment buildings. But how do you tax people who aren’t there anymore? 80,000 people left Chicago in two years. By the time Johnson finishes running it into the ground, there’ll be even less separating Chicago from Detroit.
“I’ve been all over the city of Chicago. And everywhere I go, people are feeling the excitement, the energy has shifted in the city,” Johnson claimed. The energy is there. It’s the energy of Chicago topping the country in the number of carjackings. Those too are probably the fault of car companies rather than the “deprived” “youth” robbing elderly women at gunpoint.
During Brandon Johnson’s first three months in office, 41 more people were murdered and car thefts rose by 4,341. Johnson’s campaign pro-crime pledges to shut down a database of gang members and other law enforcement tools will make matters even worse. And, most importantly, Johnson’s goal for the police is to have their “demographic make-up” reflect the “demographics of the community”. When it comes to policies, for Johnson, race always trumps everything else.
Chicago has gone from one radical, incompetent and off-putting racist mayor to another. Brandon Johnson is even worse than Lori Lightfoot, but both of them graduated from the same school of running their campaigns and their administrations around racist dog whistles.
Chicago voters, those of them who were alive and conscious, knew what they were getting.
Brandon Johnson’s plan to fix education was to claim that standardized tests had their “roots in eugenics to prove the inferiority of black people.” His plan to fix crime was to denounce policing as a tool of “white supremacy” and blamed the BLM race riots on “a failed racist system.”
The failed racist system was that of his black predecessor. Now it’s his failed racist system.
Johnson ran on racism and, unlike a lot of politicians, he’s delivering on what he promised.
Other Parts of the Series:
Part I: Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot.
Part 2: LA’s Eric Garcetti.
Part 3: DC’s Muriel Bowser.
Part 4: KC’s Quinton Lucas.
Part 5: SF’s London Breed.
Part 6: Philly’s Jim Kenney.
Part 7: St. Louis’ Tishaura Jones.
Part 9: Seattle’s Jenny Durkan.
Part 10: Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey.
Part 11: Charlottesville’s Nikuyah Walker.
Part 12: Portland’s Ted Wheeler.
Part 13: Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Part 14: NYC’s Bill de Blasio.
Part 15: Enfield’s Mondale Robinson
Part 16: Boston’s Michelle Wu
From Windhead Lightfoot to Windbag Johnson nothings changed in the Windy City still electing those Dumb Democrats
Out of the frying pan, into another frying pan.
There must be something in the air or water of these big cities that compels voting for Democrats and to ignore their record and corruption. Bottom line: these voters are self-destructing.
There is nothing in the water. It is increasingly concentrated freeloaders and people that want the government to provide for them.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” – Benjamin Franklin
https://mises.org/library/ben-franklin-liberty
I’ve been reading Richard Burton’s accounts of his travels in 1850s Africa. What a cluster**** 🙂
I didn’t think he and Elizabeth Taylor were that old.
Yeah, I should have said, Sir Richard Francis Burton 🙂
My Mom and Dad once took a vacation in Puerto Vallarta, when Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were filming a movie. They got to see them at a local restaurant where they were having dinner 🙂
Yes, portraying Cleopatra at 100+ might have induced a crisis of life threatening erections across America’s nursing homes. Thereby anticipating the covid death toll.
Honestly, who cares?
Johndon is truly a racial agitator of the worst sort
After decades of not teaching – ShitCago is illiterate, racist and violent and the teachers are being paid to do nothing.
I was born there, but my parents made sure that I never lived there. They were smart enough to know when to go. The city and state have created this disaster and they will reap the whirlwind
He taught Social Studies.
Forget double integral calculus. Skip that gut course program of chemical engineering.
He taught Social Studies, where the rubber meets the road.
Diversity is our strength?
Where would the Security Business be without our African American brothers and sisters? Without a business or purpose.
To a Dem/leftist that a subgroup of 3.5% of our population commits well over 55% of the nation’s crimes is diversity and desirable.
Senior public-school teachers making six figures a year? The horror!
Yes, it is a horror to pay them these amounts when just one-fifth of high school students in Chicago are reading and completing math at grade level. Do you think aeronautical engineers should be paid that kind of money if 80% of the aircraft they design crash?
From the apparent university pushes, we approach that day. Interestingly, there was a recent report describing a new record for airline near misses. When United Airlines announced last year they were going to go woke with diverse hiring for pilots, we decided to not fly UAL after about 5-months from that diversity date. Pilots, surgeons, political leaders should be selected from the best of us if we value survival.
You are a mendacious idiot.
If you’d like to pretend you have some dignity to defend, challenge me to a duel. I grant preemptive acceptance.
Illiterates babysitting illiterates.
With Chicago students’ test scores and graduation rates? The horror? The disgust is more like it. No wonder mayor Johnson sends his children to private schools. So do 39% of Chicago public school teachers, which is well over three times the national rate.
It must get frustrating trying to defend the indefensible., lol.
Based on their results, based on the rigor within their field, based on the control of their unions, they are lucky to be paid minimum wage.
I wonder, are they really worth it considering the animals they are graduating? I assume you live in Chicago or some other concrete slum paradise. Or is it some nice green safe suburb where the crime is considerably lower?
I never again want to hear about how black people cannot be racist or that blacks actually want more police and law and order. They voted for this guy (and Lightfoot), Good luck to Chicago (from which my son and his wife both recently joined the exodus).
Also, the language you use in this piece is truly abhorrent. To accuse another of racism while you employ this rhetoric is beyond hypocrisy. Which, again, you know very well.
Sez the anti-white racist scumbag.
Daydreaming about Mr. Greenfield prompts your sexual arousal, does it not.
Try cold showers.
The truly abhorrent thing is your preference for adjectives over examples.
Mickorn’s feelings have been hurt. Ahhhh. Tell us about the community where blacks rule that is held up as a model that other races wish to live?
One sickens of the “feelings” of Lefturds while sages, perverts, Marxists destroy civilization and whine about their feelings. Pull up your Depends skippy.
No one gives a damn about your hypocrisy.
Racial arsonists are ok as long as they set the fires in the right places and aimed at the right people.
It’s science
I can not understand why democrats elect these people. Are they truly that stupid? It makes you wonder how they are still able to live. Shouldn’t nature do the “Dodo” thing?
Do do that dodo that you do so well?
I don’t remember if it was Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, or even Malcom X who said it, but the observation was that inner-city black America’s problems stem from their inability to take responsibility for their own destiny. High crime, high illegitimacy, low acadamic achievement have nothing to do with whiteness so much as with lack of initiative. Any solution that does not address this is nothing more that another political sales pitch, and until Chicago and other cities address this, nothing will change. Except that it will only get worse.
++1 !
Spot-on! :-)))
Raising property taxes is the government’s M.O. to get people corralled into THEIR 15 minute cities.
For some, like Johnson, playing these pernicious racial games, pays off. Very well indeed.
I’d assume that there are many black working class and black middle class people there who voted for him. Assuming these people worry about their own safety and the safety of their own children my question is why?
Why would decent black people want to vote for such a malignant race baiter who would further destroy their city?
I’m genuinely curious.
I’ll take a stab at it. I read a reputable poll a couple of years ago which asked people how important their race was to their identity. About 15% of whites said it was “very” or “extremely” important. For Hispanics and Asians the figures for “very” or “extremely” important was in the low to mid twenty percent range. For blacks, the figure was in the high sixties. For blacks, far more than with any other group, race is “very” or “extremely” important. Johnson was black. His objectively better opponent was white. “Johnson, a leftist racist bent on destroying whatever was left of Chicago, won the black vote.” And there you have it.
You make sense. Perhaps Black Americans are so blinded and obsessed with Race that all logic and common sense flies out the window.
However I thought Johnson’s opponent was Hispanic?
There is another dynamic that Arabs introduced to black Africa. While previously the black African tribes had often fought each other, once the Arab slavers came in, it became hugely profitable for blacks to enslave other blacks and sell them to the Arabs. This greatly increased the ferocity of tribal wars.
As a Chicagoan, I can tell you that Paul Vallas is not a “sensible and far more qualified moderate.” He is a woke SJW who would be more than eager to give black people reperations. The crime rate would have been the same if Vallus was elected.
Methinks this new Mayor of Chicago has a framed signed photo of Robert Mugabe on his bedside table as he looks to him for guidance and leadership of a job well done…
I lived north of Chicago all my life. 60yrs. A beautiful city.
Fun. But for the last 20 something yrs, it has become a dangerous, major city sh*t hole.
Bye Chicago. …
Thanks Obama, Pritzer, and the rest of you Illinois DEMS.
My money stays in WI.
Some people never learn a lesson, making the same mistakes over and over to their plight!
Whites need to just leave Chicago and take their money and businesses with them. Leave what’s left of the city to the Blacks and wait them to kill each other off. Then, people can move back in and make Chicago an American city again.
Search “organized crime in chicago” on Bitchute.