Brandon Johnson's mayoral election could change the national conversation about crime, schools — and an aging Black establishment in big city politics.
Three years ago right now, Christina, in most major cities around the country, we were a month into near-total shutdown as we tried to figure out COVID and we were a couple of months away from the global uprisings that followed George Floyd's murder. There was certainly a feeling back then that a new consensus around racial justice and economic equity was developing in our cities.
Whereas perhaps some white voters who live in communities with less violence are worried about violence creeping in. They see policing as the solution and also their relationship to policing is much different. It isn't,"I got pulled over," or my community on one hand is under-policed and over-policed. The people who are most affected feel like, this isn't-- we can't police our way out of these issues and they see disinvestment.
Someone once said to me,"We could deal with King Richard, we could deal with Emperor Emanuel, but we couldn't deal with little Lori." Jane Byrne is the last female mayor that we had, and she had one term also. I think multiple things can be true. I don't think that people like seeing women in a kind of offensive or even defensive nature, and that's not talked about as much. I think it's going to take some time.
What I think more and more of the Black establishment is finding out is, one, you're getting young people like Brandon Johnson who aren't going to wait in line until the Black Establishment passes their baton, because we're seeing in many cities across the country they're not passing the baton. We see this also in the Democratic and Republican parties. A calcified leadership at the top. Septuagenarians. Octogenarians.
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