Race-obsessed Leadership In America's Third-largest City Is Destroying Children's Futures

The 1 point I person learned complete and complete arsenic a pastor connected nan South Side of Chicago is that erstwhile you situation a child, he aliases she often thrives. They whitethorn stumble aliases misstep present and location and sometimes it takes a time aliases moreover respective months, but erstwhile they "get it" nan smiles connected their faces show you everything.  There is thing much astonishing than a kid discovering that he aliases she is much powerful aliases smarter than they primitively believed. And for nan remainder of their lives, they transportation wrong themselves nan knowledge that they are stronger than their fears.  That is why I judge nan gift of merit is nan top gift a kid tin receive. 

It saddens maine that nan leaders of Chicago and elsewhere do not judge successful this elemental lesson. They judge much successful title than merit. 

I retrieve decades agone erstwhile nan elites, intellectuals, academics, and politicians lectured america that if we had a Black politician and Blacks successful powerfulness successful cardinal parts of nan metropolis and Black teachers school Black kids, past Blacks would statesman to thrive. They told america that it was achromatic supremacy and Whites who didn’t understand Blacks that were holding america back. But by magically making everything Black, location would beryllium nary much soul cities, ghettos, poverty, aliases gang violence. We Blacks would thrive because those Blacks successful powerfulness understood us, they sewage us.

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I ne'er believed that fairy communicative for 1 moment. 

Merit doesn’t judge successful race. Merit does not beryllium to those who usage title arsenic power. Merit belongs to only those who gain it. 

But, sadly, acold excessively galore of america judge successful nan imagination of title and we now person a Black politician successful Chicago who boasts that he has nan blackest administration. We besides person a Black caput of nan teacher’s national who clasp truthful overmuch powerfulness and sway complete our children’s educations. 

You’d deliberation these Black elites who profess to attraction truthful overmuch astir Black children would do thing astir nan failing schools and crime that kills acold excessively galore kids. Yet they could attraction less. I judge group by their actions and location has been thing of value and that is why I person nary qualms astir saying they could not attraction less. What a sorry destiny to beryllium calved into connected nan South Side wherever location is truthful overmuch governmental failure. 

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What these Black elites do attraction astir is their ain power, their status. Most of all, they attraction astir creating nan bogey man that President Donald Trump is bringing backmost nan confederacy. Yes, bully aged Johnny Rebel and nan enslaved maestro pinch his whips and chains will beryllium marching down King Drive erstwhile again. Of course, this is simply a beyond ridiculous statement and it serves only 1 purpose: to deflect our attraction distant from their systemic failures.

Chicago Teachers Union president Stacy Davis Gates, left, stands pinch Mayor Brandon Johnson arsenic he arrives astatine nan Legler Regional Branch of nan Chicago Public Library connected Feb. 7, 2024.  (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Several weeks ago, achromatic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said, "There should beryllium nary mobility to what our state would look for illustration had nan Confederacy won — we’re seeing it connected afloat display." The accusation present was that Trump was Jefferson Davis 2.0 and that his policies harkened a return to nan days of slavery and segregation. 

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Then respective days ago, Black Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates — nan female who doesn’t spot her nationalist schools to amended her ain kids who are successful backstage schools — said Trump "is present to triumph nan relitigation of nan Civil War and decorativeness nan activity of nan Confederacy."

Imagine being a kid connected nan South Side and proceeding those words. That kid would perceive truthful overmuch anger for nan bogeyman of achromatic supremacy and nary anger for nan failing schools. In fact, that Black elite sound that bashes achromatic supremacy would show that Black kid that it is not their responsibility that they are not educated, that it is not their fault they can’t get a job, aliases dream of a amended life. It's nan responsibility of "The Man" aka achromatic supremacy. 

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These leaders ne'er talk of merit to these children and they ne'er believe it. They person pursued title arsenic their powerfulness and that pursuit has corrupted them. That is why I conflict them each time from my artifact connected nan South Side. I cognize nan powerfulness of merit. I cognize what it does to nan mind of nan child. And I cognize really a kid who lives nan life of merit ever — I repeat, ever — has nan chance to move retired of poorness and into a amended life.

Merit is nan committedness that America gives to each 1 of her children. It takes a definite benignant of evil to contradict these kids their birthright. 

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