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Chicago Mayor Too Busy to Visit Border:
‘I’m Doing All of That with a Black
Wife Raising 3 Black Children’ in Chicago

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Posted By: Imright, 2/5/2024 10:44:13 PM

Chicago’s “progressive” Mayor Brandon Johnson blew up on a reporter on Monday when he was asked if he plans to visit the U.S. southern border, and he insisted that he does not have time because he is busy “with a black wife raising three black children on the west side of the city of Chicago.” Johnson notoriously canceled his planned and announced trip to the border in October, and since then, he has claimed he still intends to make the trip to see the mess down there with his own eyes. Instead of going himself as he had planned to, the mayor sent Beatriz Ponce de Leon, the deputy mayor

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Catherine 2/5/2024 10:52:54 PM (No. 1651706)
What does color have to do with his wife and children?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: itsonlyme 2/5/2024 11:00:42 PM (No. 1651714)
Branddone, no-show in October?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: john56 2/6/2024 12:28:24 AM (No. 1651740)
Did anyone at the border request Hiz Honor to make the trip? Haven't the people of Eagle Pass had enough problems already?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Faithfully 2/6/2024 1:24:02 AM (No. 1651756)
What? Wait. He sounds like a Black woman with too much on her hands. He cannot handle his job so GO.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: anniebc 2/6/2024 1:24:31 AM (No. 1651757)
It's his version of the race card, and he's used this line before; he must be in deep trouble. Pathetic. If he's so busy with his wife raising his children, he should resign so he can spend more time with them. Isn't that what politicians do when they have to resign public office for other, ahem, reasons?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: skacmar 2/6/2024 3:31:49 AM (No. 1651772)
Johnson had to slip race into his response somehow. He seems genetically incapable of answering a question without injecting race into the response.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: mifla 2/6/2024 4:26:47 AM (No. 1651788)
The black community is not happy with mayor. He felt the need to remind them that he is one of them, and therefore entitled to their vote.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Highlander 2/6/2024 5:11:16 AM (No. 1651794)
That race card is stuck to his forehead for everyone to see.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: vrb8m 2/6/2024 6:16:14 AM (No. 1651802)
Huh?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: smak90 2/6/2024 7:11:10 AM (No. 1651832)
It sounds to me like he feels having a black wife and black kids is too much for one man to handle. Therefore he doesn't even have time to do his job as mayor.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: homefry 2/6/2024 7:27:42 AM (No. 1651847)
If only he'd had the foresight to marry a cracker and raise 1/2 cracker children, I guess is what we should glean from that statement.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: downnout 2/6/2024 7:32:24 AM (No. 1651853)
What does “Black” have to do with it?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: broken01 2/6/2024 7:45:42 AM (No. 1651864)
It sounds like mayor Brandon is trying to make a new sitcom for Chicago called May Black Wife and Three Kids.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Clinger 2/6/2024 7:49:47 AM (No. 1651866)
Is he suggesting that black wives and black children are extra burdensome?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: mobyclik 2/6/2024 7:57:36 AM (No. 1651871)
FTA: ''...that he does not have time because he is busy “with a black wife raising three black children on the west side of the city of Chicago.” Imagine the media howling if Chicago had a white mayor that said that: ''...that he does not have time because he is busy “with a white wife raising three white children on the west side of the city of Chicago.” This guy's as crazy as Biden.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: montwoodcliff 2/6/2024 7:57:41 AM (No. 1651872)
Everybody wants to be mayor, governor, or president, and tHey haven't got a clue about what to do, especially Democrats.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Lazyman 2/6/2024 8:14:57 AM (No. 1651882)
Oh, he's black you have to leave him alone.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: privateer 2/6/2024 8:15:19 AM (No. 1651883)
What about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion? What about set-asides and quotas! Shouldn't at least one of his family be white? Bum Billiken is a joke.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Strike3 2/6/2024 8:25:07 AM (No. 1651896)
Leave the man alone. Taking care of a black wife and three children is a rarity that must be applauded. Pete Butt Judge has been using a similar excuse for three years to not do his job and he gets a pass.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Msquared112 2/6/2024 8:29:16 AM (No. 1651902)
He may have set a record for blacksplaining. What was that, .0003 seconds before he mentioned race?
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Encore 2/6/2024 8:59:09 AM (No. 1651928)
Would he be admitting that black women and black children are problematic? Finally.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Ragman73 2/6/2024 9:24:24 AM (No. 1651944)
A recent article put it well : I'm sick about hearing what color you are or what type of sex you like to have. Stop whining, "man up", and do your job. The voters are worried about their families, not yours. If you can't lead, then follow someone who can, or get the hell out of the way.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Sully 2/6/2024 9:33:06 AM (No. 1651952)
He sounds bitter that he didn't have white children. Who talks like this?
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Philipsonh 2/6/2024 10:08:11 AM (No. 1651970)
So many Blacks vote based on Color alone; this joker is an example. Then they suffer.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: MickTurn 2/6/2024 10:19:21 AM (No. 1651985)
Waa Waa Waa, Boo Hoo...a typical LAME statement from a Lazy Slug Crooked DemonRat!
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Reply 26 - Posted by: janjan 2/6/2024 10:53:10 AM (No. 1652009)
There’s your answer Chicago. He can’t be bothered with the border issue that is heavily impacting his city. He has kids who play soccer and he’s black. This is what you voted for.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: Birddog 2/6/2024 11:00:05 AM (No. 1652015)
The BIG story should be...Him Dissing an LBGTQ Black Woman(If he was a republican) “But you’re asking me to give you a date and I have to court — do you understand that you have not had a mayor like me, I get that.”He exploded. This alludes to the fact that the last handful of mayors did not have young children while in office. Indeed, the recently deposed mayor, Lori Lightfoot was involved in a childless same-sex relationship.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: Gordon Mills 2/6/2024 11:27:47 AM (No. 1652037)
Can you be anymore racist? Racists always play the color card.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: Noj15 2/6/2024 12:42:11 PM (No. 1652093)
Blackety, black, black,black. Black. Black black. Blackety blackety black. Black!
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Reply 30 - Posted by: Venturer 2/6/2024 1:07:16 PM (No. 1652113)
How many black Firefighters and Police Officers are doing their jobs with black wives and kids. If you cannot have a family and do the job you need to find another job.
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