Chicago kids are dying while Mayor Johnson fights Trump, ICE and reality

The lone crushed I americium doing my Walk Across America is due to the fact that of the kids who are caught successful the crossfire of failing policies, breached acquisition systems, and leaders who prioritize everything but their future. In Chicago, nether Mayor Brandon Johnson’s watch, we person a metropolis screaming for help, but alternatively of listening, he’s fixated connected ICE raids, shielding amerciable immigrants, showing solidarity with Minneapolis, and adjacent weighing successful connected overseas argumentation successful Venezuela. Why? When our ain streets are stained with the humor of our children, and our schools person failed for years?

Just erstwhile you deliberation it can’t get worse, it does. In a caller video, Johnson declared, "If we don’t propulsion backmost against Trump and ICE with everything that Black radical utilized to get ‘us free,’ we’re going to find ourselves subjugated to tyranny. One happening is for sure: Not successful Chicago." 

But clasp connected — the aforesaid antheral who claims those sacrifices "got america free" is the 1 who perpetually cries astir inheriting a "white supremacist system" afloat of ongoing oppression and racism. Which is it, Mayor Johnson? Are we free, oregon are we inactive subjugated? You can’t person it some ways conscionable to acceptable your narrative. And wherefore resistance our ancestors’ bequest into shielding the metropolis from national law? That’s not honoring their fight. That’s exploiting it.

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If you privation to cognize the existent truth, there’s a colonisation successful our metropolis that is not arsenic escaped arsenic it could beryllium — a colonisation that is perpetually denied equality of opportunity, a colonisation that is exploited by the near arsenic "evidence" of systemic racism — and that colonisation is the kids. If achromatic supremacy is genuinely down this oppression of our kids, I privation to cognize who’s down it truthful we tin protestation them retired of power.

But everyone I spot successful positions of powerfulness is mostly Black. Mayor Johnson is Black. Most of his medication is Black. The superintendent of constabulary is Black. The Cook County state’s lawyer was Black until recently. The main justice of the Cook County Circuit Court is Black. The Illinois lawyer wide is Black. The Chicago Fire Department commissioner is Black. The Cook County Board president is Black. The authorities Senate bulk person is Black. The Illinois lieutenant politician is Black. The Illinois Secretary of State is Black. The Chicago treasurer is Black. Even the CEO of Chicago Public Schools is Black.

So, Mayor Johnson, wherever is this achromatic supremacy that you talk of?

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Or is this conscionable an excuse to deflect from the information that the politician and his leftist policies whitethorn beryllium the existent oppressors of the kids successful our city?

Former Chicago mayoral campaigner Paul Vallas wrote that since Mayor Johnson took office, "504 school-age children, 17 years and younger, person been shot, and 107 person been killed. Twenty-three of those deaths were children nether the property of 12."

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Nobody knows this. It ne'er made the news. Mayor Johnson didn’t attraction to marque it news. The Chicago Teachers Union didn’t attraction to marque it quality either. You cognize what did marque the news, though? The union’s luxury trips to Las Vegas, Hawaii, and overseas safaris — each successful the sanction of "professional development" — which person outgo the metropolis much than $20 cardinal since 2019.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson addresses reporters arsenic President Trump weighs sending troops to Chicago. (Kamil Krazaczynski/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, acold excessively galore of our kids cannot work oregon bash mathematics connected people level. In immoderate schools, this nonaccomplishment complaint is arsenic precocious arsenic 96 retired of 100 students.

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Shelby Steele, successful his 2020 movie "What Killed Michael Brown?" said that the biggest systemic oppressor of Black youths is post-60s liberalism — the benignant that the politician and his ilk embrace. He’s right.

The politician is engaged grandstanding against President Donald Trump and ICE, defending sanctuary policies that support undocumented immigrants, and condemning Trump’s subject actions successful Venezuela arsenic "illegal" and tied to "oil and power." He tells Congress that scapegoating immigrants is "misleading and unjust," portion our ain citizens languish successful poorness and danger. He does each of this due to the fact that helium has nary viable solutions. None.

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Most of all, I blasted america — We the People. We elected this incompetent and ideological antheral arsenic our mayor. We ne'er clasp our leaders to afloat accountability. We attraction much astir protesting Trump than we attraction astir our kids. That’s the acold reality. We request to aftermath up, reverse course, and hole precise fixable problems. It’s not magic to amended a child. But the volition indispensable beryllium determination — and close now, it is not.

That is wherefore I’m walking crossed America to dispersed consciousness of this problem, which affects not conscionable our assemblage but communities each implicit the country. Surrendering our values to elite agendas leaves thing for the remainder of us. Only folks similar Johnson benefit. Our kids merit leaders who combat for their present-day acquisition and their aboriginal opportunities. This is the top state successful the world, and we indispensable rise our kids to cognize this information — oregon we volition reap what we sow.

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