Michael Johnson of Boys, Girls Clubs of Dane County Confers Legitimacy onto Leading Wisconsin Racist

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — Shame on Michael Johnson, President and CEO of Boys and Girls Clubs of Dane County.

Johnson has been back on the job for two years, but this is plenty of time for him to sell out and self-deal.

Johnson breathlessly posted in social media the news he is meeting with Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) this week. 

Then the Johnson-Vos summit was close, Johnson wrote. 

Then Johnson emerged with secret "immediate action steps" to protect black and brown youth. What are these action steps; Johnson didn't say, (WISC-TV)?

But Johnson did get his headlines, and the man who goes by the handle, MJohnsonCEO on Twitter, has met another objective, getting his name in the news and upping his profile.

The problem is Johnson in the process is legitimizing a leading Wisconsin racist, Robin Vos, as Republican police have morphed into sadism and open allegiance with white power citizen groups, as Republicans cheer them on.

Two lives taken by GOP-supported racists, Jacob Blake's spinal cord severed, organs eviscerated, and Johnson plays for headlines?

Johnson calls himself a "change agent."

 

But Vos is not a good-faith player, and we are going to long for the days that Republicans committed mere petty acts of juvenile spite and mass incarceration.

 

What drives Johnson conferring legitimacy onto Vos? 

 

It's the monarch syndrome, a delusion of royalty. 

 

The narcissistic belief of Michael Johnson's is that he is a king, and, indeed, his highness is hostile to public criticism of his public performance, which Johnson sees as seditious libel, or being "disrespect(ed)," in his description.

I have news for Michael Johnson. This is a classical liberal democracy and a semi-free country, though political speech of public figures is one aspect in which we do lead the world.

Conferring legitimacy onto racists for headlines is a betrayal. Johnson was wrong to do it for cheap headlines to up his profile.

 

But I look forward to reading all about these "immediate action steps" from the increasingly narcissistic and dishonest Michael Johnson.

Vos, police and Republicans are not seeking dialogue. As Scott Gordon writes, "people [are] exploding in fury against racist policing" that kill and maim.

And Republicans in black and blue and gerrymandered offices are cheering them on. Johnson giving these people cover in their lies should be challenged repeatedly.