Brandon Johnson is the Mayor of Chicago. And he is a Black man.
So why does he hate Black people?
I ask this because, based on his actions/his policies, he must hate Black people.
Want to see the evidence? Here’s some (not all, but some) of it from Paul Vallas’ article at johnkassonews.com:
Mayor Brandon Johnson fashions himself as the successor to former Mayor Harold Washington, presenting his leadership as a new era for Black political power in Chicago. He casts his critics as participants in a national pattern of attacks on Black mayors and claims the city is undergoing a “Reconstruction” moment. This rhetorical framing suggests existential stakes: that entrenched powers seek to quash Black advancement in Chicago.
However, invoking race and systemic racism to dismiss criticism, deflect accountability, or explain away every setback only dilutes the discussion of the real challenges confronting both Chicago and its Black residents. Johnson’s rhetoric is a strategy to silence dissent and regain Black support, especially as many in these communities feel left behind by his migrant policies. In truth, his policies—along with those of the Progressive Caucus—have done far more harm than good in the Black community.
Johnson has consistently minimized Chicago’s crime and violence issues. While the number of murders and shootings have dropped along with national trends since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, overall violent crime remains high.
The city remains notorious for its violence, once again leading the nation in the number of murders, school age youth murdered and mass shootings, with Black residents bearing the brunt—making up the overwhelming majority of victims, including nearly 80% of murders and shootings. Notably, an investigation by CBS news reported Black women account for just over 16% of the city’s population but over 30% of violent crime victims in 2024.
Yet rather than directly condemning the violence, Johnson often pivots to ambiguous references to “institutional racism” as the root cause. Meanwhile, his budgets have left Chicago with 2,000 officers below police strength.
Johnson’s education agenda was clear from the outset. Like his former employers and chief sponsors at the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), he opposes homework, standardized tests, school choice, and selective-enrollment schools and the mayor appointed school boards have moved to accommodate.
The CTU led the way with the mayor’s support, in lobbying the non-renewal of the state funded private school scholarship program that benefited over 9,000 largely poor minority children, while costing the school district nothing.
The school board has also presided over the lowering of academic standards, dismissing standardized testing as “junk science,” and ending the ranking of schools by academic performance. Little wonder that while the district boasts a record 78% graduation rate for Black students Wirepoints reports that only 11% meet SAT reading standards and just 7% math standards.
There is more. A lot more. I urge you to use the link I’m providing (here it is again) and read Mr. Vallas’ entire article.
Then wonder along with me why someone who purports to be concerned about the plight of Black citizens has done, and continues to do, so much to damage them in so many ways.
Then also wonder along with me when the citizens of Chicago, most particularly its Black citizens, recognize the damage he, along with other similar minded politicians in Chicago, are visiting on them…and DO something about it.
