Black Chicagoans slam Mayor Johnson for ‘replacing’ them with migrants

Chicago activists are bashing Mayor Brandon Johnson for trying to replace blacks with migrants, and demanding an exemption from the $6,000-per-year property taxes that other groups would still have to pay. Howard Ray, a Chicago reparations activist, this week revived his Reconstruction Era Reparation Act Now campaign for carve-outs from property taxes for black households, saying Chicago’s migrant surge was hurting African Americans. Other black Chicagoans have taken to social media to slam Mayor Johnson over $9,000 payouts to migrants to cover their rent and help furnish their apartments, saying it is pricing them out of longstanding black neighborhoods. The US has seen an influx of asylum seekers across its southern border in recent months, many heading to Chicago, straining social services as hundreds camp out in police stations and O’Hare Airport. ‘They’re using our taxes to demise our communities,’ Ray told Chicago’s Morning Answer. ‘They’re using our taxes to support and advocate for the illegal immigrants. And in the meantime, we’re getting pushed out.’ Ray launched his campaign last year, saying black Chicagoans face much higher rates of evictions than others, and that letting them off property taxes would be a fair payback for the legacy of slavery. Property...