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And the persistent claim that the Chicago Teachers Union dictates his every move, Johnson said, “A Black man executive can make decisions on his own.” Johnson pushed back at the descriptions of him as “slow,” “unconscionable” and “overly cautious.” They are “microaggressions” that “perpetuate a particular view of blackness,” said the mayor. Having competence as well as the desire to be collaborative, those are two very important dynamics. On two key jobs: On why he kept James Franczek, the city’s chief labor counsel, and not Allison Arwady of the Health department, Johnson said, “For me, there’s criteria for my form of leadership. Now, we have to undo a system that an entire generation of liberals said that they wanted, and then they’re asking me to hurry up and fix what they caused.” “It undermined the Black middle class in the city of Chicago. It was a reference to the the Shakman decrees that enforced rules for hiring so as to end political patronage but caused other challenges. “My effort is to undo a system that has had a lot of rigidity for a very long time,” he said. On unfilled city jobs, including Cabinet positions, Johnson said he’s working on making the hiring process more flexible. It was a no-holds barred conversation and the longest Q&A with the mayor (as far as we know) since he took office May 15. Johnson made his comments on stage in a one-hour-plus Q&A with Ben Joravsky, a self-described left-leaning journalist and podcaster, and Injustice Watch’s Maya Dukmasova.
But we also have to be very clear that for a long time, we’ve ignored what has been the norm in this city of the displacement and the disruption of Black existence.” He was acknowledging the tensions in communities that worry existing unhoused residents aren’t also getting attention from the city. “Look, we have a lot of work to do,” the mayor acknowledged, adding he sees the influx of migrants to Chicago as “an opportunity.
And he said he’ll be “rolling out a stronger presentation” on the “humanitarian endeavor” later this week. Johnson says he has a plan: The city has erected 18 shelters and worked with county and state governments to provide resources. Some 150 buses of asylum seekers have arrived since the conventidon announcement by the Democratic National Committee, said Johnson, ticking off the work that’s been done in recent weeks to help find shelter for the migrants. “This is a direct response from governors, particularly in these red states, that are really trying to call attention to our values,” Johnson told a crowd gathered at the Promontory event center on the South Side for an evening discussion marking his 100-plus days in office. Greg Abbott and the MAGA world of using migrants as tools as the city prepares to host the Democratic National Convention in 2024. I hear thunder, and there’s a break in the heat.įour more buses carrying asylum seekers will land in Chicago today, according to Mayor Brandon Johnson, who accused Texas Gov.
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