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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Where private schools are fascist and the CTU runs the show

The Chicago Way

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Chicago Way w/John Kass (09/11/23): Paul Vallas, former candidate for Chicago Mayor and CEO of Chicago Public Schools, joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin to discuss the hypocrisy of Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates sending her child to a private school, even though she has a history of calling private schools fascist & […]

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0:00.0

It's only been a hundred days, and Brandon Johnson is already playing his race card, isn't

0:07.2

he?

0:08.2

I'm not the first person of color, particularly a black man that will be held to different

0:13.0

standards than other administrations, wine, Johnson to MSNBC, Brandon went on to say,

0:20.7

you all read the press, I don't, but you look at these dynamics, you know, there's been

0:25.3

a certain particular coverage of me, right?

0:27.8

Think about it.

0:28.8

There's coverage of me being slow, right?

0:31.7

Johnson said, these are microaggressions that if you don't have the lens of those who

0:36.8

have lived through these experience, you just miss it.

0:40.8

Microaggressions, Mayor Johnson, I covered Harold Washington, he doesn't use microaggressions.

0:49.3

You wanted to get in your face, he did, and he didn't want to get in your face, he did.

0:54.4

You wanted to dance with a Polish lady at, dance a polka with a Polish lady at the rally,

1:01.1

he did.

1:02.1

He was a man, this man be pamby, playing around the edge is pathetic and not in demeaning

1:10.7

and not worthy of a mayor or a city like Chicago.

1:14.4

And on top of it, here comes Stacy Davis Gates, who has vilified parents who dared consider

1:22.2

taking their kids out of public school and putting them in private parochial schools through

1:30.2

a scholarship program supported by the state that Pritzker and Stacy Davis Gates of the union

1:37.4

wants to kill and she's trying to kill it this week with her with her obedient democratic

1:43.7

robots in the legislature.

1:45.8

But here's the thing, it's just out now that Stacy Davis Gates is sending her, his

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