"I get so sick and tired of people in this country and in this city that believe that the only thing that you can offer Black people and poor people is jails, incarceration and police officers," Mayor Brandon Johnson said. "Dr. King said this right here in Chicago, the National Conference on New Politics. What did he say? He said, ‘Militarism is a sickness.’ I am trying to eradicate the sickness from this city and from this country."
If that’s how he feels, he can give up his huge security detail.
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8 months ago
America’s Worst Mayor can’t comprehend that King was addressing the Vietnam War and the protests involving the use of National Guard troops. Show me where MLK proposed defunding and eliminating law enforcement and emptying prisons because too many poc wind up in them. He never did. AWM needs to go.
If that’s how he feels, he can give up his huge security detail.
America’s Worst Mayor can’t comprehend that King was addressing the Vietnam War and the protests involving the use of National Guard troops. Show me where MLK proposed defunding and eliminating law enforcement and emptying prisons because too many poc wind up in them. He never did. AWM needs to go.