Mayor Brandon Johnson Ignores Black Deaths While Declaring Woke Emergency in Chicago

Mayor Brandon Johnson just can’t get his priorities straight. In the city where hundreds of black Chicagoans have been killed this year alone, he’s decided the biggest crisis is something he’s calling a “Transfemicide State of Emergency.” Not gangs, not deadly crime in black neighborhoods, but instead, he’s throwing all his energy and resources into a woke headline about trans deaths. Chicagoans are used to empty promises from their politicians—but this is a new low.

Families in the city wake up every day to the sound of sirens. Black children are gunned down on playgrounds. Mothers bury their sons—victims of out-of-control violence. Does Mayor Johnson care? Not enough to declare any sort of emergency for them. Instead, he’s making sure his administration is laser-focused on scoring points with radical activists and the far-left LGBTQ+ lobby.

This isn’t just incompetence; it’s a slap in the face of every hardworking resident in Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods. The people crying out for help are ignored. Black men and women are left to die in silence. All the while, the mayor signals his virtue on social media, bragging about expanding support for LGBTQ+ Chicagoans, as if that will magically solve the real problems tearing the city apart.

Johnson’s playbook reads like a globalist handbook—follow the trends, court the activists, and ignore the people who don’t fit the woke narrative. Crime spirals out of control, but as long as the mayor can show off his credentials to the progressive elite, he thinks he’ll be safe. He’s too busy with identity politics to notice that his own citizens are living in fear.

Here’s the ugly truth: Brandon Johnson is more interested in pleasing liberal power-brokers than actually saving lives. How many more black families need to bury their kids before Chicago’s leaders remember who they work for? Maybe the next time Johnson wants to declare an “emergency,” he should try walking the streets of the West and South Sides—if he’s brave enough to face the results of his own failures.

Source: NY Post