Posted on 04/05/2023 8:48:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
Chicago's new Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson told a group organizing for a "police-free future" that black people should be removed from "state-sponsored policing" as a way to fight "white supremacy."
During the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, Johnson came out in support of the "defund the police" movement and spoke on a panel titled "We Don't Call Police: A Town Hall on a Police-Free Future" in which he praised organizers for pushing "an agenda that actually can transform people's lives," the Chicago Tribune reports.
"And part of it is removing ourselves away from this, you know, state-sponsored policing," he said, "but also the tools that have been placed against Black folks that have been used violently, whether it's policing, or administering standardized tests, or ... around how white supremacy finds its way in every facet of our lives, that we have to fight and resist that."
Johnson also defended looting during the Floyd riots, stating that "what we're seeing obviously is an outbreak of incredible frustration and anguish" that's tied to "a failed racist system," Wirepoints reports: Johnson was asked by a WGN-TV interviewer at [the time widespread looting was taking place], "Do you worry about stores leaving Chicago and the county because they don't think it's safe?"
Johnson bristled at the concern. He replied, "these companies have insurance and assurance." He also said, "you can't take a certain level of urgency to protect capital and the wealthy and not have that same tenacity to provide relief for families that have been devastated through structural racism for generations."
Johnson amplified the point, saying, "We have to redirect dollars away from a failed racist system and move it into the hands of people who really are trying their very best to survive day-to-day. And if we can't do that as a government, we are failing to meet the moment…To continue to criminalize people, and to chastise folks for being poor, it's tired and it's old. We actually need a new direction that really calls for massive investments in neighborhoods." Johnson also claimed in a debate that standardized tests have "roots in eugenics to prove the inferiority of Black people."
He later distanced himself from the "defund the police" movement, stating: "With all due respect, I get how they are trying to paint a brother. I get it. But I'm not going to be subject to a hashtag that no one can define."
Johnson also said just weeks ago he never said "defund the police" -- despite stating during a debate that defunding police is not "a slogan, it's an actual real political goal."
Johnson defeated pro-police former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas with 51.42% of the vote versus Vallas' 48.58% in Tuesday's election.
Though Lori Lightfoot was voted out as a result of "widespread dissatisfaction from voters over her handling of crime and policing in the nation's third-largest city," voters replaced her with someone who is even more radical.
Read his remarks closely.
He’s arguing for separation. He’s a black nationalist.
The post 1964 way of living is crumbling.
They voted out Adolph and Ernst walks in.
Apparently, this twerp thinks that White People really are supreme.
Instead of bitching about it, he should encourage black people to do better ... maybe learn from what those supposedly "supreme" White People are doing.
Or I would say, they got rid of The Kaiser, and got Hitler.
This guy is so dumb and clueless he thinks businesses will return or remain in the city after he defunds the police. They have insurance for that, right? Chicago will become a crime-free utopia, right?
His soon before those who are left beg for the good old days of Lori Lightfoot?
Let the boys get jiggy and become African African “American”
This meets half of the BHO agenda
Now we can have a bunch of failed nation states right here in the US!
They replaced Hitler with Stalin.
Looks like Chicago voted to be all in til the bitter end. Lake County will continue to grow.
Wakanda on the lake.
Chicago should just change its name to Mogadishu, or Kabul, Illinois.
Liberals have been accusing “Right Wing Gun Nuts” for years of wanting to create the “Wild West”, when it’s their (liberal) policies that are creating exactly that.
He’s going to give them even more immunity from prosecution for their crimes. Chicago is already hell. It will get even worse.
He’s obviously OK with them turning on Whitey.
There will be policing, whether by the state or by individuals. And vigilantes do not operate prisons.
Yeah, go ahead black people, buy into your own self-destruction.
Go ahead, be the most ignorant, most violent, most government dependent, most useless people in the USA and the world.
All you’ll be able to do is deal drugs, kill other blacks, bury your relatives, make ugly art and suck on the teat of government dependency, as long as that lasts for you in your cesspools.
Or they replaced Trotsky with Stalin.
Conservative, law-abiding, smart people in Chicago (of all races) should heed Scott Adams.
Another racist mayor.
Lucky Chicago.
Chicongo.
Black voters will never vote for a pro police white guy
Liberals have been accusing “Right Wing Gun Nuts” for years of wanting to create the “Wild West”, when it’s their (liberal) policies that are creating exactly that.
We need some Kool Moe Dee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auhwI00iKWg
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