Chicago Mayor Johnson Pushes for Reparations, Claims Restaurant Industry Tied to Slavery
“You just watched the entire city council, in transparency, try to take wages away from the very people who are part of an industry that has its ties to slavery is hiding from that”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is having some sort of battle with the city council over raises for tipped workers that isn’t going his way, so he lashed out in remarks this week.
The bizarre part is that he veered into talk about fighting for reparations and then claimed that the restaurant industry is somehow tied to slavery.
The quality of leaders in our biggest cities is really something to behold.
FOX News reports:
Chicago mayor links restaurant industry to ‘slavery’ as tipped wage fight intensifies
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson linked the restaurant industry to “slavery” Wednesday as he defended his push to eliminate the tipped wage, doubling down after surviving a City Council effort to block the policy.
Johnson’s remarks came after the Chicago City Council failed to override his veto of a measure that would have halted the city’s phaseout of the subminimum wage for tipped workers — a policy set to raise base pay to the full minimum wage by 2028 that is opposed by restaurant owners who warn it could drive up prices and cut jobs.
He called on Chicagoans to “challenge city council not to do stuff like take wages away from Black and Brown people,” saying that most workers in the service industry who rely on tips are minorities.
“You just watched the entire city council, in transparency, try to take wages away from the very people who are part of an industry that has its ties to slavery is hiding from that,” Johnson said. “I am boldly declaring that we need reparations in this city, and that’s why I’m funding it.”
City aldermen voted last month to end the wage increase for tipped workers, but Johnson vetoed it.
Restaurant owners and associations have pushed back on the city’s phaseout of the subminimum wage, saying it will shrink their already tight profit margins. Chicago’s City Council failed to meet the 34-vote requirement to overturn the phaseout.
See the clip below:
Brandon Johnson today on his administration's transparency regarding his Reparations Task Force:
"I'm a black man in America calling for the reparations of black people!"
Johnson then asserted the restaurant industry is tied to slavery. pic.twitter.com/KOOBo6igc2
— Chicago Contrarian (@ChicagoContrar1) April 15, 2026
Chicago is broke. Even if Johnson got some reparations package passed, where is that money going to come from?
Maybe the city shouldn’t have spent so much on illegals.
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Saw this a couple of days ago.
It doesn’t seem any smarter now than it did then.
We have multiple generations of stupidity that need to be eradicated from our society if we want to ever have a free republic again. SMH.
The Democratic Party should pay reparations in order to atone for their past mistreatment of blacks. The party was formed to defend slavery, fought the civil war to preserve slavery and oppressed blacks for 100 years. They are in favor of reparations so they should be happy to pay.
No, it wasn’t. It was founded by Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, etc., none of whom had any interest in defending slavery. It came to be the party of slavery only later.
Johnson has a brain the size of a walnut, but he is deluded into believing it is actually the size of an apple.
Morons everywhere.
People will stop tipping and these employees will make less money. I can’t think of any restaurants that have any link to slavery. I don’t think slavery was ever legal in Chicago.
Slavery was legal in Illinois but by 1848 it had become a free state,
Would it kill him to try Chipotle instead of Popeye’s?
Actually, DW and I once ate at a restaurant built upon slavery. The first meal was really memorable. The second, a couple years later, was lackadaisical, and we crossed the place off our list. Now the website seems to have been abandoned and has been liberally tagged by vandals (Filipino ones, ironically).
So authentic,
Would it kill him to try Chipotle instead of Popeye’s?
Given their problems with E. coli, it might.
I’ll take E.coli over getting shanked (see recent Active Self Protection podcast)
What a pointy headed doofus. City mayors like this idiot depress the collective IQ of their city’s inhabitants. Apparently Chicagoans weren’t too bright to begin with since they elected this loser.
The machine has to have someone dumber than it is to be their figurehead.
This is just the 0bama-Biden-Kamala-Waltz effect starting at a lower IQ.
This guy really pegs the stupid meter.
Doesn’t have any knowledge of or respect for ACTUAL slaves and the conditions they were FORCED to endure under the cruel hands of the DEMOCRATS who owned them.
Thank a teacher…
Mayor Johnson pushes for reparations
Don’t forget pulls, tugs, yanks, shoves, tows, heaves and pressures.
Yes, Mayor Johnson, you are correct when you say you are a black man in America. As if no one can notice. What is more germane is that you are the most despicable and dumbest mayor of all in America. Your skin color is entirely irrelevant.
And, he has plenty of competition, too. But he’s leading the pack, it seems.
part of an industry that has its ties to slavery
Has he (or anyone else) ever actually explained that claim?
Because I would be really interested to see the evidence/logic for that.
He doesn’t have to, Being black in America is all he needs,
Urban voters are some of least informed people, with too many zealots among them, trying to outdo one another in observance of the dogma. And those that disagree in fear of speaking out. Now wonder they have such great leaders.
They are also too stupid to get IDs at least according to those very same great leaders.
No doubt one of the reasons why the FF limited the franchise to landowners.
Why do these race grifters hate the Constitution so much?
Because true equal opportunity (not equal results) leaves most of them in the dust,
Modern blacks would treat a resurrected MLK the way that the Church treated Jesus in Brothers Karamatzov. Straight to the dungeons as it is now their church.
Nah. A resurrected MLK would fit right in with the BLM crowd. He supported racial preferences for blacks, and every leftist cause that came along.
Since she worked at McDonald’s, I’m sure Kamala would confirm that restaurants are linked to slavery. She has first-hand knowledge.
They served curry?
Apparently, no one believes he is black; he mentions it at every presser.
What a marooooon.
Well, it worked for Kamala, who wasn’t even really black.
Join the NYC mayor…open city run restaurants. Sliding scale for price of a meal. Can’t remember if the restaurant I ate at in the hotel across from Red Square was totally government USSR or Russian Federation owned back in 1971…but want to bet? Considering the population… how could it be slavery if minority owned? I wonder how Ditka feels about his place in Chicongo?
The subminimum wage for tipped workers has been pushed with shameful chicanery.
There was a referendum to amend the state constitution on this subject recently in Arizona. The “for” arguments published in the election materials read like they came from Behind The Looking Glass — waiter after waitress begging to have his existing subminimum wage further sliced by 25% to (somehow) “preserve” their tip income. (Read them yourself, they’re mind-bending.)
Come to find out, nearly all of them (33 statements, according to campaign disclosures) were sponsored/paid for ($75 per submission) by the astroturf PAC “Save Our Tips AZ,” operated by the restaurant OWNERS group — the same culprits that managed to get the bill named the “Tipped Workers Protection Act.” Grok:
An Arizona Mirror article summarizes the industry duplicity, and even explains what Johnson is probably referring to as its basis in restaurant industry racism.
You know what else has ties to slavery? Not getting your way when you stomp your feet and throw a tantrum.
The fatigue grows day the day…
he’s a slave to his mental illness
Johnson was the chief sponsor of the Just Housing Ordinance, which amended the county’s housing ordinance by prohibiting potential landlords or property owners from asking about or considering prospective tenants’ or homebuyers’ criminal history.[13] The ordinance was passed in April 2019.[18][19]
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