Reporter asks Chicago mayor point blank, ‘Why are you a racist?’

An independent reporter from Chicago not only asked Mayor Brandon Johnson what he needed to be asked, but also gave him a good grilling along with it.

The tense exchange followed an announcement on Monday that the DOJ was opening an investigation into Chicago’s hiring practices.

Hiring practices like this, for example:

Mayor Brandon Johnson just admitted he is putting blacks ahead of other races in city contracts like airport construction

This is illegal, @DOJ pic.twitter.com/33PchD80QS

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 18, 2025

During a Tuesday conference, reporter William J. Kelly, a former candidate for Chicago mayor and the governor of Illinois, let Mayor Johnson have it.

“Real Chicagoans woke up this morning relieved that the Department of Justice is finally investigating your race hustle,” Kelly said. “As someone who grew up on the south side of Chicago, I’ve heard a lot of race hustlers in my life, trust me; but they were usually marching around outside of City Hall, which is what makes this so embarrassing and dangerous — very, very dangerous to the city of Chicago.”

When someone interrupted Kelly, urging him to get to his question, Kelly did just that.

HOLY SHLIT

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just got called out TO HIS FACE about his racist treatment of white residents pic.twitter.com/SCQx61O1Lh

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 21, 2025

“I’m more than happy to ask this question,” Kelly continued. “It’s long overdue. For over a year, real Chicagoans, white and Black, have been telling me that your Black power rhetoric is bringing the city backwards from a place that we had overcome. You want the question? Real Chicagoans want to know: why are you a racist?”

It’s not surprising that Mayor Johnson skirted the confrontation by saying he rejected the premise of the question.

He won’t, however, be able to skirt the probe that the Windy City now faces.

The Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation of the employment practices of the City of Chicago, Illinois, to determine whether it has engaged in a pattern or practice of racial discrimination, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. https://t.co/wHe55paVsQ pic.twitter.com/TQO1dCDCMX

— DOJ Civil Rights Division (@CivilRights) May 19, 2025

DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW

Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!