Meet Brandon Johnson, the 'Descendant of the Formerly Enslaved'

Meet Brandon Johnson, the 'Descendant of the Formerly Enslaved'


Rarely has there been a more unqualified person for the position he holds than Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. A bitter racist to the core, his latest attempt to improve his 23% approval rating is to demand reparations. In a recent interview, he criticized President Donald Trump for ignoring the “demands” of the “descendants of the formerly enslaved.”



The “descendants of the formerly enslaved.” That’s a new one. Another way to say it would be the “descendants of the formerly emancipated.” As a former history teacher, Johnson should presumably know that the freedom of black slaves was paid for with the blood of over 360,000 Union soldiers, mostly white, and that the lands of the slaveowners themselves were utterly destroyed.

The debt has been paid.

Two other historical tidbits our humble teacher-mayor should be familiar with are: 1) nowhere else in the history of the world did one race of people wage war and die to free another race of people from slavery, and 2) at one time or another, every race of people has both enslaved and been enslaved.

So, Brandon, from one “descendant of the formerly enslaved” to another, allow me to offer you some advice as to how others have managed to climb out of their hole without demanding reparations from innocent people centuries after the fact.

CULTURE

The term “ghetto” has come to symbolize downtrodden inner city neighborhoods in which minorities, by their own choice, self-segregate. But the original ghettos were sections of European cities in which Jews were forcibly placed. The practice began in 1555 in Venice and spread across Europe and Russia and ended in 1870; the Nazis reestablished it after their rise to power.

Despite being forced to live in ghettos, and despite the discriminatory laws against them, and despite their limited opportunities for education and employment, do you know what the Jews did? They thrived anyway.



Do you know what the Jews didn’t do? They didn’t use their music, art, and culture to glorify violence or drug use or domestic violence. They didn’t lionize their own thugs and criminals. They didn’t harbor animosity towards fellow Jews who managed to do better in life as “sellouts.” They didn’t deify ignorance.

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