Brandon Johnson.\u00a0 (AP Photo\/Paul Beaty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAt the press conference yesterday, Brandon Johnson ticked through his usual list of culprits for the gang violence. These included law-abiding gun owners (as always), along with \u201cdisinvestment\u201d in the black community, structural racism. But there was a new culprit on the block: President Richard M. Nixon. That\u2019s right\u2026 Brandon Johnson blames the long-deceased Richard Nixon, president 50 years ago, for Chicago\u2019s ills today. Even though Democrats have had a lock on the levers of power in the Windy City for almost 100 years, and the entire state of Illinois for most of a generation.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how Johnson tried to pin the woes of his dystopian city on ol\u2019 Tricky Dick.<\/p>\n
\u201cBlack death has unfortunately been accepted in this country for a very long time. We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes. And people mocked President Johnson, and we ended up with Richard Nixon,\u201d said Mayor Johnson, we assume no relation to the also now deceased, and super white guy President Johnson.<\/p>\n
Despite championing civil rights, including helping secure the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Johnson\u2019s motives may have been more political than borne from his love of all races. After the passage of the act, he reportedly said, \u201cI\u2019ll have those n[deleted] voting Democratic for 200 years.\u201d You can fill in the blank.<\/p>\n
Some liberals and historians debate whether he actually said that, but even a number of black historians admit such a statement would\u2019ve been in line with how he spoke and thought. What is not disputed is what he actually called the bill that would become the Civil Rights Act. Johnson called it the n[deleted) bill.\u201d And that tidbit of history is from the woke MSNBC<\/a> itself.<\/p>\nAnd if Mayor Johnson is in need of a little history lesson given the increasingly poor quality of public education in the past few generations.\u00a0 While Nixon may not have openly courted black voters like Johnson and the Democrats did, but he did a lot to expand economic and educational opportunity for black Americans.<\/p>\n
This from the Richard Nixon Foundation<\/a>:<\/p>\nWhen he reached the presidency, Nixon sought to expand economic opportunities for African Americans by ending discrimination in the work place, through the endowment of black colleges with federal funds, and helping them find meaningful employment through job assistance programs, and promotion of entrepreneurship \u2014 an initiative called \u201cBlack Capitalism.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nIn 1970, perhaps the hall mark of the Nixon administration\u2019s Civil Rights policies, Nixon sought to end the decades old and egregious tradition of segregated schools for black and white children throughout the nation, predominantly in the Southern states.<\/em><\/p>\nBut Mayor Johnson isn\u2019t worried about real history, he simply wants to throw blame wherever he can to take the attention off his own sad record.<\/p>\n
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