The only reason I’m doing my Walk Across America is because of the children caught in the crossfire of failed policies, broken education systems, and leaders who prioritize everything but their future. In Chicago, under Mayor Brandon Johnson’s watch, we have a city crying out for help, but instead of listening, he is fixated on ICE raids, protecting illegal immigrants, showing solidarity with Minneapolis and even foreign policy in Venezuela. Why? When our own streets are stained with the blood of our children, and our schools have failed for years?
Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does. In a recent video, Johnson stated, “If we don’t push back against Trump and ICE on everything black people used to ‘get us free,’ we will find ourselves subjected to tyranny. One thing is for sure: not in Chicago.”
But wait a minute: the same man who claims these sacrifices “liberated us” is the one who constantly cries about inheriting a “white supremacist system” full of continued oppression and racism. What is it, Mayor Johnson? Are we free, or are we still subject? You can’t have it both ways just to fit your story. And why should we drag down the legacy of our ancestors in protecting the city from federal law? That’s not a tribute to their fight. That is abuse.
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If you want the real truth, there is a population in our city that is not as free as it could be – a population that is continually denied equal opportunity, a population that is exploited by the left as “evidence” of systemic racism – and that population is the children. If white supremacy is truly behind this oppression of our children, I want to know who is behind it so we can protest their position of power.
But everyone I see in positions of power is mostly black. Mayor Johnson is black. Most of his government is black. The police chief is black. Until recently, the Cook County State’s Attorney was Black. The chief judge of the Cook County Circuit Court is black. The attorney general of Illinois is black. The chief of the Chicago Fire Department is black. The chairman of the Cook County Board is black. The Senate majority leader is black. The lieutenant governor of Illinois is black. The Illinois Secretary of State is black. The treasurer of Chicago is black. Even the CEO of Chicago Public Schools is black.
Mayor Johnson, where is the white supremacy you speak of?
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Or is this just an excuse to deflect from the fact that the mayor and his left-wing policies may be the true oppressors of our city’s children?
Former Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas wrote that since Mayor Johnson took office, “504 school-aged children 17 and under have been shot and 107 have been killed. Twenty-three of those deaths were children under the age of 12.”
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Nobody knows this. It never made the news. Mayor Johnson had no interest in making the news. The Chicago Teachers Union also didn’t want to report it in the news. But you know what made the news? The union’s luxury trips to Las Vegas, Hawaii and foreign safaris — all in the name of “professional development” — have cost the city more than $20 million since 2019.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks to reporters as President Trump considers sending troops to Chicago. (Kamil Krazaczynski/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, far too many of our children cannot read or do math at grade level. In some schools this failure rate is as high as 96 out of 100 students.
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Shelby Steele, in his 2020 film “What Killed Michael Brown?” said the biggest systemic oppressor of black youth is post-1960s liberalism — the kind the mayor and his ilk embrace. He’s right.
The mayor is busy defending President Donald Trump and ICE, defending policies that protect undocumented immigrants, and condemning Trump’s military actions in Venezuela as “illegal” and linked to “oil and power.” He tells Congress that scapegoating immigrants is “misleading and unjust” while our own citizens languish in poverty and danger. He does all this because he has no viable solutions. No.
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Above all, I blame us: We, the people. We elected this incompetent and ideological man as our mayor. We never hold our leaders fully accountable. We care more about protesting Trump than our children. That is the cold reality. We need to wake up, reverse course and solve very solvable problems. It’s not magic to raise a child. But the will has to be there – and right now it isn’t there.
That’s why I’m walking across America to raise awareness about this issue, which affects not only our community, but communities across the country. When we surrender our values to the agendas of the elite, there is nothing left for the rest of us. Only people like Johnson benefit from it. Our children deserve leaders who fight for their current education and their future opportunities. This is the greatest country in the world, and we must raise our children with this truth – or we will reap what we sow.
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