PHOTO: Mike Johnson’s adopted black son is absent in 2021 family Christmas card of the Johnsons

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Mike Johnson’s adopted black son is absent in 2021 family Christmas card of the Johnsons.

MIKE JOHNSON AND HIS 14-YEAR-OLD AFRICAN AMERICAN ADOPTED SON

Yesterday, U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected to the position of speaker of the House, justifying Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s gambit earlier this month to vacate Kevin McCarthy’s speakership. Evangelicals should celebrate. Johnson is a man of considerable conviction. He’s pro-life, and he has refused to pretend that the 2020 election was corruption-free.

In response to jeering from spectators at the hearing Johnson departed from his prepared remarks to invoke Michael. “Let me finish …Listen, wait a minute …Many of my colleagues in this committee may not be aware, in addition to our four children at home, my wife and I have a much older son who happens to be African American. We took custody of Michael and made him part of our family 22 years ago when we were just newlyweds and Michael just 14 and out on the streets and on a dangerous path.”

A bit later in his remarks Johnson said, “I asked Michael this weekend what he thinks about the idea of reparations. In a very thoughtful way, he explained his opposition.” People I respect — Matt Walsh, Jack Posobiec, and Mike Cernovich — are more skeptical of the new speaker. They pointed to a June 2020 interview to raise questions about Johnson’s conservative convictions. In the days after the death of St. George Floyd in 2020, Johnson agreed to an interview with Walter Isaacson, a former CEO of CNN and president of the Aspen Institute, a left-leaning nonprofit think tank.

Isaacson, of course, asked Johnson about his emotions following the death of Floyd, a celebrated activist and American hero. On Speaker Mike Johnson’s first full day in office half the journalism world was looking into the surprise Speaker’s past. In his meteoric one day rise from four term representative to Speaker there was no time for anyone to vet him. But one part of that past came out of left field. Video surfaced of an interview Johnson did with Walter Isaacson just after the death of George Floyd in June 2020 in which he revealed that he had an adopted black son, Michael. Johnson went on to explain that there was no question that his black fourteen year old son Michael faced challenges that his white fourteen year old Will never would. Many on the leftward side of the political spectrum were struck by Johnson’s empathy and frank recognition of discrimination in contemporary America while right wingers denounced him for his wokeness.