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Trump Accuses Chicago Mayor of Hiring ‘Too Many Black People.’ Threatens Arrest.
Mayor Johnson is making up for centuries of lost time, lost money, lost lives.
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices — more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage. Reparations would mean the end of yelling patriotism while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the white American consciousness, a reconciling of the white self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our black American history.
— Ta-Nahesi Coates
In light of the arrests of Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka, a sitting US Congresswoman, and Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee, now comes word that the mayor of the City of Chicago (my adopted hometown) is also being threatened with arrest by the Trump Abomination for putting “too many blacks” in his city administration.
As the below viral video shows, Mayor Baraka was arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency outside an immigrant “detention center” located within…
