{"id":1966483,"date":"2023-07-07T10:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T14:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/racial-justice-intersectionality-at-heart-of-new-chicago-mayors-transition-report\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:01:00","slug":"racial-justice-intersectionality-at-heart-of-new-chicago-mayors-transition-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/racial-justice-intersectionality-at-heart-of-new-chicago-mayors-transition-report\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chicago Mayor&#8217;s Transition Report Focuses on Racial Justice and Intersectionality."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fracial-justice-intersectionality-at-heart-of-new-chicago-mayors-transition-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1966483&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0707\/f64fdb8f-4c03-48f3-8392-c404d2ee900e\/audio.mp3?length=5578317&#038;duration=465\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Almost two months after he ascended to the fourth floor of City Hall, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson offered a victory lap for the left-wing activists, unions, politicians, and donors who helped get him elected.<\/p>\n<p>His transition committee issued a 223-page mayoral <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/city\/en\/depts\/mayor\/supp_info\/transition-report.html\">transition report<\/a> drawing on the work of 11 committees and subcommittees and almost 400 Chicagoans.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Johnson and his allies announced its release on July 6 at Greater Harvest Baptist Church on the city\u2019s South Side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is living proof that when we come together, build and run on our values, anything is possible, not just for the City of Chicago, but the rest of the globe,\u201d Mr. Johnson said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1793331\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MLK_137104936.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n    Martin Luther King III speaks at the base of a statue to his father after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-odonnell-one-hundred-years-ago-america-established-a-sacred-memorial-the-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier\/\" title=\"Exclusive--O'Donnell: One Hundred Years Ago America Established A Sacred Memorial: The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier\">wreath-laying ceremony<\/a> at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/houston-dea-finds-dramatic-increase-in-drugs-laced-with-fentanyl\/\" title=\"Houston DEA finds dramatic increase in drugs laced with fentanyl\">undated file photo<\/a>. (Brendan Smialowski\/Getty Images)<br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<p>Mr. Johnson\u2019s oratory at a South Side church may have been meant to evoke civil rights leaders like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Others who spoke at Greater Harvest offered a clearer picture of what the new administration could have in mind when it comes to race and economics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will not be able to instantly dismantle structural racism or challenge racial capitalism. However, you can pick a city that leads the way and serves as a model for the nation,\u201d said Linda Rae Murray, co-chair of the committee\u2019s health and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marco-rubio-slams-val-demings-progressive-voting-record-after-senate-bid-announcement\/\" title=\"Marco Rubio slams Val Demings\u2019 progressive voting record after Senate bid announcement\">human services subcommittee<\/a> and former chief medical officer of the Cook County Department of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. King Jr.\u2019s son, Martin Luther King III, rallied for Mr. Johnson during his runoff campaign against Paul Vallas.<\/p>\n<h2>Race at Center of Johnson\u2019s Report<\/h2>\n<p>The report, which begins with a land acknowledgment, describes as its first value \u201cthe importance of the dual pillars of equity and inclusivity, and particularly racial justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also typically capitalizes \u201cblack\u201d while leaving \u201cwhite\u201d in lowercase.<\/p>\n<p>The document also emphasizes the importance of \u201cintersectionality\u201d in its analysis, describing it as a \u201ccritical theme \u2026 borrowed from black feminist writers and activists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scholars have challenged intersectional theory, with some warning that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/west-dead-in-the-water-if-identity-politics-persists-warns-uk-author_5291027.html\">sacrifices<\/a> the individual to collective identities.<\/p>\n<p>The report argues that the identities considered under intersectionality \u201care not in competition with one another\u201d as \u201cthey are all intimately related.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It co-signs the recommendation from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/content\/dam\/city\/depts\/dca\/cmp\/cmpreport.pdf\">committee<\/a> under former Mayor Lori Lightfoot to keep monuments to Christopher Columbus and other public art out of public view.<\/p>\n<p>The mayoral transition report claims those public artworks \u201creinforce white supremacy and stereotypes of American Indians.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3436712\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/07\/24\/christopher-columbus-statue-removed-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n    City municipal crews help guide the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park as it is removed by a crane in Chicago in the pre-dawn hours of July 24, 2020. (Tyler LaRiviere\/Sun-Times\/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)<br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<p>The report also emphasizes what it asserts are the \u201croot causes\u201d of crime, which rose <a href=\"https:\/\/wirepoints.org\/38-jump-in-chicago-crime-during-mayor-johnsons-first-month-wirepoints\/\">38 percent<\/a> during Mr. Johnson\u2019s first month as mayor.<\/p>\n<p>During a previous wave of crime that began during the 1960s, James Q. Wilson and other social scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/contra-root-causes\">found<\/a> that policy aimed at \u201croot causes\u201d was far less effective against crime than the incapacitation of offenders through incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this evidence from the past, the report claims that \u201cviolence cannot be prevented or controlled without considering the entire range of violence against people in Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis includes the daily systems of violence rooted in protecting dominant white, heteronormative, ableist, and patriarchal power,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n<p>The report\u2019s \u201cPublic Safety\u201d section begins by contending that: \u201cAmerican history is characterized by its exceptional levels of violence\u201d without offering any additional context or evidence from other civilizations and cultures past or present.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2449004\" style=\"width: 726px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/02\/22\/176014newyork1a-2.png\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n    ICE Homeland Security Investigation agents arrest a suspected MS-13 gang member on Long Island, N.Y., during a 30-day sweep in June 2017. (ICE)<br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<p>One colorful cartoon graphic in a section on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/racial-justice-intersectionality-at-heart-of-new-chicago-mayors-transition-report\/\" title=\"New Chicago Mayor's Transition Report Focuses on Racial Justice and Intersectionality.\">police staffing relates racial dynamics<\/a> in rather blunt terms: \u201cIt\u2019s hard to trust people who don\u2019t look like you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s hard to imagine such language being used to recommend an increase in white hiring to patrol white neighborhoods, the remainder of that subcommittee report makes it abundantly clear that the aim is to step up the hiring of black police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvaluate the merit promotion process and eliminate barriers to hiring black police officers,\u201d the document recommends.<\/p>\n<p>An immigration subcommittee report calls for the city\u2019s gang database to be erased.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the report\u2019s ideologically charged contents, Mr. Johnson presented himself as a uniter in his July 6 remarks at Greater Harvest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are individuals, of course, that work hard to try to divide us. But clearly, the City of Chicago is not going to stand for the division that is being propagated all over the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Speakers Reflect Union-Driven Coalition<\/h2>\n<p>Mr. Johnson, formerly a paid organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), was backed by that organization during the April runoff election that saw him defeat centrist liberal Vallas.<\/p>\n<p>Vallas was backed by Chicago\u2019s Fraternal Order of Police, the city\u2019s police union.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Johnson\u2019s biggest donors included organizations associated with the CTU, the American Federation of Teachers, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), all of which provided the candidate with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.il.gov\/campaigndisclosure\/ContributionListPrint.aspx\">large sums<\/a> after the first round election eliminated incumbent Lightfoot and set up the Johnson versus Vallas main card.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of various committees and subcommittees involved in creating the transition report spoke on July 6 at Greater Harvest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must recognize the pivotal role that arts and culture play as an economic driver for the city of Chicago,\u201d said Abby Pucker, co-chair of the arts and culture subcommittee.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Pucker is the daughter of billionaire film producer Gigi Pritzker, a member of the politically and economically powerful Pritzker family\u2014major art collectors and the namesake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sothebys.com\/en\/articles\/the-pritzker-legacy\">Pritzker Architecture Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Pritzker is a cousin of Democrat Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Penny Pritzker, who served as commerce secretary under President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4054710\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/10\/18\/gov-pritzker-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n    Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 4, 2021. (Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe very real possibility now exists for the long-overdue demand<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson celebrated his election victory by acknowledging the support of left-wing activists, unions, politicians, and donors. A comprehensive 223-page mayoral transition report, compiled by 11 committees and subcommittees with the input of nearly 400 individuals, was released after his two-month tenure on the fourth floor of City Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":1966484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}