Ever since he unveiled his super awkward workplace diversity analogy involving chocolate milk (of all things!), Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has gotten the side-eye from the state's black residents. Now, in the middle of his re-election campaign, he's claiming to have done more for the black community than any other governor. 

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the governor appeared on WVON AM radio on Tuesday morning, aka Juneteenth. 

“We’ve done historic things for the black community; I would argue, more than any other governor,” said Rauner. “Creating economic opportunity, making more equality in contracting. We’ve done historic things, and we’re going to keep on fighting.”

Hmmm, let's do a bit of a fact check on that, shall we?

Rauner vetoed a school funding bill, snatching millions of dollars away from Chicago, a city that already has a struggling public school system.  

The governor also met with Chance the Rapper in Springfield, Illinois, last year to discuss Chicago's public school funding crisis. Because meeting with the famous face of CPS is cool for black acceptance, right?

“Governor Rauner still won’t commit to giving Chicago’s kids a chance without caveats or ultimatums,” Chance said after the meeting. The rapper described Rauner's answers to his pressing questions as "vague," and claimed Rauner “asked me where the $215 million is going to come from.”

Following his Juneteenth radio appearance, Rauner also headed to an East Garfield Park neighborhood church to speak to black entrepreneurs, claiming he was "all about black business." 

“Black business entrepreneurs take the risk, but they’ve got extra burdens, more barriers, more discrimination, more lack of access,” Rauner said. “And we’ve got to take that down, eliminate those barriers and get equal access.”

Rauner further boasted about his administration's Advancing the Development of Minority Entrepreneurship program, offering mentoring and networking assistance to black businesses. He also noted minority businesses in Illinois would have access to a $15 million grant from the new state budget. 

The crowd was reportedly receptive to his speech that day. His Democratic opponent in the gubernatorial race, however, had nothing nice to say.

“Bruce Rauner fabricated a track record of standing up for the black community when he’s been nothing short of a failure,” said Rauner's rival, J.B. Pritzker, in a statement. “While Rauner pays lip service, Illinois’ black unemployment rate is the highest in the nation. That’s after Rauner’s budget crisis crushed small businesses, decimated social services, reduced access to child care assistance for working families, and forced anti-violence programs to freeze operations."

Pritzer further shaded Rauner by calling him “a failed governor using a day that commemorates freedom and the fight for justice to grandstand and spread lies.”