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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Earlier this year, the Dallas Morning News fired one of its reporters for calling the city’s mayor “bruh”. The reporter was white and the city’s mayor is a thin-skinned racist.
“Gotta love when folks let their inherent biases show. I get to be addressed as ‘bruh’ by someone who writes for my daily local paper whom I’ve never met,” Johnson ranted.
The reporter was fired after she was asked if she would have called Mayor Eric Johnson “bruh” if he wasn’t black. Johnson’s strategy of accusing his critics of being racists was working.
After Johnson took office in 2019, the numbers of murders shot up from 210 to 252. By April 2023, there were already over 90 murders in the city making for the 7th highest urban homicide rate in America. During his first year in office, Chief Renee Hall, the first black woman to run the department, was forced out for trying to limit the damage from the violent BLM race riots.
During a City Council meeting, Johnson attacked Chief Hall for using tear gas against BLM rioters throwing bricks at police officers and urged pro-crime activists to “share their concerns regarding the city’s response to the protests.” The pro-race riot policy led to black supremacists chanting, “burn it down” and taking over restaurants and threatening people next year.
“I love seeing all the protests, and I hope they translate into people voting for policy shifts,” Johnson had said.
In 2021, after the worst death toll in a generation, Johnson and the Dallas City Council cheered the passage of an “equity” resolution mandating that everything would revolve around race.
The equity resolution blamed the city’s problems on “systemic racism” and pledged Dallas’ “commitment to racial equity” by using “equity principles” to tackle the budget
While Dallas politicians warned about reduced federal aid and the need for ‘belt tightening’, the 2022-2023 budget proposed $22.5 million in equity spending for things like “documenting the achievements of underserved communities.”
At a time when the top concerns of Dallas residents were public safety and broken streets, the Dallas Equity Plan began with a fashionably woke “land acknowledgement” declaring that the land really belonged to the Comanche (the Comanches had actually invaded the area in the 18th century and attacked the Apaches.) before announcing that Dallas would become the “nation’s most equitable city”. In reality, poverty rates make Dallas one of the least equitable.
Dallas County’s population dropped in the last two years. Mayor Johnson has accomplished the seemingly impossible by getting people to leave Dallas. A poll gave two reasons for the shrinkage that are familiar to leftist mayors all across the country: crime and homelessness.
The Dallas Equity Plan embraces crime and urban blight by making it the city’s goal to “decrease the percent of historically disadvantaged communities arrested for low-level offenses” by reducing the number of arrests of the “disadvantaged” from 7,585 to 6,068.
Equity requires measuring the “ratio between the number of black and Asian individuals per 1,000 arrested by the Dallas Police Department.“
Dallas cops had better arrest the same ratio of black and Asian criminals. And that may be a problem as black people are being arrested 11 times more often than Asians. Either the Dallas PD needs to find reasons to arrest a lot more Asians or arrest fewer black criminals. And what equity really translates into is much less law enforcement because fighting crime is racist.
While the Dallas Equity Plan proposed going easy on criminals if they were the right race, Johnson was conducting a victory tour claiming that he had defeated crime. That would come as news to the city’s crime victims. By the end of July, 150 people had been murdered.
Even though homicides were up 10%, Mayor Eric Johnson basked in adulation from the Washington Post and FOX News which bizarrely headlined his appearance as “Dallas Democrat mayor bucks crime trend” and “Americans rank Dallas safest city”.
Nothing says safety city like being ranked as having the 7th highest murder rate.
If over 150 corpses makes for a safe city that’s bucking the time trend, what does an unsafe city look like? Crime is so bad in Dallas that a plainclothes officer in an unmarked car recently got into a shootout with carjackers. If only he had practiced equity by letting them take the car.
Much like Buttigieg, Johnson is using the media to build up a myth of turning Dallas around before a likely run for higher office. Much has been made of him running unopposed in 2023.
“Nearly 99 percent of Dallas voters voted for me for mayor. I won the election with 98.7 percent of the vote,” Johnson bragged about winning an unopposed election.
Rather than universal popularity, it meant that potential opponents weren’t able to get on the ballot. And Johnson was so beloved that he won 42,000 votes in a city of 1.8 million.
Over 3,000 people who bothered to vote in a pointless race protested by writing in other candidates including Ron Swanson, J.R. Ewing, Kermit the Frog, George W. Bush, Allen West, “anyone else,” “not him,” “anyone but him,” and “not that guy.”
“Bruh” got 2 votes.
In contrast to the media hype about Mayor Johnson’s popularity or the city’s turnaround, the number of people who believed that Dallas is headed in the right direction fell from 40% when he was first elected to 28%.
As Dallas implodes, Mayor Johnson’s defense is racism. That’s why he hurled a false racism accusation at a reporter who pushed back on his claims that everything was great.
Crying racism covers a multitude of sins.
Before his previous election, Johnson claimed that “redistricting is used to keep the power structure in the South the same-white folks on top, people of color underneath.”
“Is there anyone out there who still doesn’t understand how deeply racism is engrained in our society?” he demanded another time.
Dallas has a black mayor, a black city manager, and an all-black city council leadership even though there are more whites and Latinos than black residents in Dallas. So where is the racism still coming from? Apparently it’s coming from anyone who calls Mayor Eric Johnson “bruh”.
Other Parts of the Series:
Part I: Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot.
Part 2: LA’s Eric Garcetti.
Part 3: DC’s Muriel Bowser.
Part 4: KC’s Quinton Lucas.
Part 5: SF’s London Breed.
Part 6: Philly’s Jim Kenney.
Part 7: St. Louis’ Tishaura Jones.
Part 9: Seattle’s Jenny Durkan.
Part 10: Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey.
Part 11: Charlottesville’s Nikuyah Walker.
Part 12: Portland’s Ted Wheeler.
Part 13: Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Part 14: NYC’s Bill de Blasio.
Part 15: Enfield’s Mondale Robinson
Part 16: Boston’s Michelle Wu
Part 17: Chicago’s Brandon Johnson
Part 18: Los Angeles’ Karen Bass
Great humor! My first laugh of the day. Thanks Daniel 🙂
All this could have been predicted based on readings of East Africa in the 1850s.
Raising the tribes out of the morass of ignorance was already pronounced an impossible task back then.
The mayor is on to a great idea. Why not limit arresting blacks to the number of left handed accordion players? Are black politicians are racists or do they become that way? I wonder would the mayor agree to limiting black welfare recipients to the same number as Asians?
If Hispanics and whites voted for this monument to good sense there must be something in the water in Dallas.
Racism is the central motive force of the Democrats.
The Left is driven by using a crisis caused by systemic injustice to seize power. Racism has been their biggest crisis for a while.
There is systematic racism in the government- all it by LeftTwat racists. They only see things through their racist viewpoints, yet are immune from the facts.
Black supremacists are a huge problem and wherever they are in control crime is rampant and increasing, poverty increases as fast as the taxation and the loss of jobs.
The more that blacks are seen in society, the more that they are seen to be racists. It is not even a btelligent, self serving racism either. Asian on black crime is insignificant. Black on black crime on the other hand is the core of American crime. It would be like a woman mayor ordering equity between arrests of male rapists being charged and female rapists.
Somebody ought to tell blacks to stop getting their talking points from white liberal feminists. Nobody is born that stupid. This kind of stupidity must be learned.
I want to know : What, not who, is this guy, along with all of his species?
Are we all living on the same planet?
No.
Let’s call him the alien, the extraterrestrial kind, as opposed to the illegal alien, which is now called an illegal immigrant, who was also called a migrant, but who is actually deemed a refugee seeking asylum from the devastating war in Mexico.
You didn’t know? The US embassy in Mexico is swamped with hunted Mexican citizens needing visas to get out of the genocidal war torn country and then travelling only in the stealth of night to avoid capture and certain death.
Getting back to all those politicians, I mean alien folk from planet Ekow in the Blaggardian Galaxy:
They should be rebranded and be referred to constantly as the Alien Delegation.
And they have not come in peace.
One would think that, after all the decades of its employment, the race card would have expired by now. But it works on a gullible population so I guess not. BTW, why doesn’t Mayor “Bruh” Johnson apply his “disproportionate impact analysis to homicides, too. Nationally, according to the FBI, 57% of U.S. homicides are committed by black people (12.5% of the population). So I guess he should conclude that blacks cannot be arrested for homicide in Dallas unless and until the number of blacks arrested falls to the same percent as their representation in the Dallas population.
Take a gander at the FBI’s crime statistics — they’re illuminating. Blacks commit more than half of all homicides and more than 37% of all violent crimes — despite constituting ~12.5% of the total population.
Since it is mostly young black males that figure should be closer to 3%.
Forty-some years ago I might not have said this, but, four years in the navy woke me up to a lot of what reality is. No, we are not all the same and are not culturally equal.
Another thing I would not have said back then: I will keep it polite to pass muster here. I will not vote for those people, regardless of party.
Wait, it’s not April the 1st joke? The mayor really wants the police to arrest the same number of black and Asians? It looks like this city has reached the highest level of insanity -100 out of 10 on the Democratic insanity scale.
Start arresting Violent mobs and Crinimals
Next, he’ll be upset by PD “curbside resolution” of matters that result in arrest avoidance. For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction.
We lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for more than three decades. We’re so glad we don’t live there anymore. Dallas voters apparently like to vote for equity and social justice, . The wealthy like their charity balls, but in person to person interactions, they know their class and expect you to know your place. They like to outsource their charity to the politicians they vote for.