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The adage that “black faces in high places won’t help us” still rings true when you look at Black mayors like Karen Bass, Eric Adams, and Lori Lightfoot. Residents of their respective cities have grown disillusioned and are pulling their support for their mayors.
Chicagoans were hoping for a breath of fresh air in 2023 when they elected Brandon Johnson mayor. Both of his predecessors were nothing short of dreadful: known mockingly as “Mayor 1 percent” for his bone-deep budget cuts that favored the wealthy, Rahm Emanuel closed 50 public schools in 2013 alone, virtually all of them in Black and Latino neighborhoods…