- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has blasted her critics as sexist and racist in an interview with WTTW, a local PBS station
- Many of her critics say Lightfoot is soft on crime and hard to work with
- ‘Woman and people of color are always held to a different standard,’ Lightfoot said
- Lightfoot also addressed the backlash she faced after refusing to be interviewed by white journalists to mark her two-year anniversary
- She accused media companies like the Chicago Tribune as not being diverse enough to represent the city
- So far in 2021, shootings have gone up by 12percent compared to the same period last year, with 1,489 incidents this year and 1,333 in 2020
Brian Stieglitz – Daily Mail July 2, 2021
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has blasted her critics as sexist and racist – just six weeks after she sparked fury by refusing to be interviewed by white journalists.
Her comments came in an interview with WTTW, a local PBS station, when she was discussing the city’s recent spike in violence as well as critiques of her approach to handling it.
Phil Ponce, of WTTW, said, ‘In recent months, there have been questions raised about your temperament and your reaction to criticism – a (Chicago) Tribune editorial used the term irascible – how much of this do you think might have to do with the fact that you’re a woman and specifically a black woman?’
In response, Lightfoot said, ‘99percent of it.’
Asked to elaborate, Lightfoot said, ‘Look at my predecessors. Did people say that Rich Daly held tea sessions with people that he didn’t disagree on? Ron Emmanuel was a polite guy who was a uniter? No. Woman and people of color are always held to a different standard. I understand that. I’ve known that my whole life.’
‘And the Tribune or whoever could write what they want. What I’m doing is fighting for the residents of this city. I’m an advocate. I’m going to continue fighting. Obviously we need to be focused on uniting people as much as we can, but I was elected and ran on disrupting the status quo. And when you disrupt the status quo, you are gonna make people uncomfortable. You’re are gonna have people criticizing you.’
Ponce and Lightfoot referenced an op-ed by The Chicago Tribune’s editorial board titled, ‘Add to Chicago’s problems our defensive, irascible mayor.’
The article read, ‘What voters didn’t know is that they also were getting in Lori Lightfoot someone with a tendency toward the thin-skinned, the defensive, the short-tempered. And no, those aren’t personality quirks assigned to female leaders that would be treasured in a man. They are traits that interfere with advancing the goals of any politician, boss, CEO.’
‘Lightfoot would have more wins on her policy agenda if she could better manage relationships. Instead, she battles with those from whom she needs support — from Chicago aldermen to state lawmakers to her own staff and even rank-and-file police officers, a constituency she desperately needs to help keep the city safe but for whom she offers little public support.’
Lightfoot noted that the editorial was published shortly after she faced backlash in May over her decision to grant one-on-one interviews to only ‘black and brown’ reporters to mark her two-year anniversary in the role.
Gregory Pratt, a Chicago Tribune reporter who is Latino, revealed he was among those who had been granted an interview but the newspaper decided to cancel it when Lightfoot refused to lift her ban on other reporters.
‘I am a Latino reporter @chicagotribune whose interview request was granted for today. However, I asked the mayor’s office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled,’ Pratt tweeted. ‘Politicians don’t get to choose who covers them.’
Lightfoot, who is the city’s first female black mayor, said to WTTW, ‘This criticism comes just about a month or so after I made a pointed decision at my two-year anniversary that I was only gonna give interviews for that two-year anniversary to journalists of color and it was like the sky was falling on the part of some of the folks that are embodiments of the status quo, including some of the media folks.
‘Look around, look at the Tribune editorial board. Look at the editorial boards of most of the big media companies here in this city. They do not reflect our diversity and many of the people on those boards don’t even live in Chicago. So I’m sorry if I offend people by fighting for what people elected me to do, which is disrupt the machine, disrupt the status quo and make city government more responsive to the residents.’
Following the interview, Lightfoot drew even more ire from her critics. The Young American’s Foundation, a conservative network geared toward college students, wrote in a tweet on Thursday that, ‘Lori Lightfoot has failed Chicago.’
And Tucker Carlson took aim at the mayor on his Fox News show.
He said: ‘This is Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot was destroying our city explaining that anyone who complains about Chicago skyrocketing murder rate, anyone who mentions that is both a racist and a sexist.
Comment – July 2, 2021
Meanwhile, under Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s watch, Chicago has experienced its most violent weekend thus far this year.
Most of the shooting seems to have been gang-related and that means that the perpetrators were likely Black or Latino. So, Mayor Lightfoot cannot blame the ongoing slaughter in the city on “white racism”.
Is she using such charges to cover her inability to properly govern Chicago?
Zombie
The racist major against Whites seems to ignore the race issue of the homicides in Chicago perhaps because according to an announcement from Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office 95% of the murder victims in 2020 in Cook County, home of Chicago, are people of color.
In Chicago such as most large cities in America dealing with a large homicide problem, the majority of the victims and murderers are Black, followed by Hispanics.
In Chicago, blacks commit about 80% of all shootings and murders, and whites less than 2%, though both blacks and whites are each a little less than a third of the population
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/ending-the-blm-revolution-blue-truth-matters
Sadly, the problem will highly likely continue if politicians and the media continue to blame the mythical White supremacy for everything. I feel sorry for the innocent Blacks and Hispanics living in these violent areas of Chicago.
Perhaps Chicago should take a chance and elect Mike Ditka, the tough guy former Chicago Bears coach, as Mayor, I don’t think he will tolerate the high murder rate.
As you might have guessed from her masculine appearance, Lightfoot is currently married to, Amy Eshleman, a former Chicago Public Library employee, who is now a full-time parent to the couple’s adopted daughter, Vivian.
No doubt she is a feminist who is playing the sexist and racist cards in order to force organisations and companies to employ people who are not employed on an equality of opportunity basis but on an equality of outcomes diversity basis instead.
I am a black woman
i came to the UK as a baby in the 70s
i have never had any racism from white folk
but i have from my own kind
lets keep this real here
israeli IDF now investigating crime in USA
whats wrong with their own ?
http://www.renegadetribune.com/why-is-the-idf-on-the-scene-of-the-disaster-in-miami/
racist TV adverts and films are nothing new
black folk have been put with white women in subliminal programming
in magazines and soaps for a while now.
In the USA black women won a huge undisclosed sum from Barclays Bank
for racist TV ads showing black men with white women as they discriminated against black women
in essence saying black women were not good enough for their own men.
The little white blonde girl Shirley Temple was filmed with a black man
in a very sexual way, the name Temple is a masonic term
where Masons meet to plan their works.
In later life Shirley Temple, real name Shirley Black claimed she was sexually abused in Hollywood
by Charlie Chapin and other jews.
Jewish scripture says its Ok to sexually abuse non jewish kids.
Many jews see the battle as won and are admitting the Holocaust hoax the murder of JFK and family and 9/11.
What an evil anti-white racist she is. If ever there was a time to use ACTUAL gas chambers for executing people…………………..
I do not post often on here. However, this creature really boils my piss.
Sean.
Affirmative Action in action. LOL
People who say “racist” feel they belong to an inferior group, e.g. Jews, Blacks, women, homosexuals, Moslem, even Christian.(I have not related Christians to this consideration before, but everyone knows it’s a bit spazzy).
Who would ever have thought that putting in a degenerate, black, lesbian into the position of Mayor would have a disastrous effect on that city?
Here’s something, facts that is, that people are incapable of understanding.
Firstly, anyone who criticizes someone of another race, does not make them a racist.
Secondly, black people do NOT BELONG to white nation and civilization. This is incredibly important. Why? If you don’t belong to something, you have no connection to it and therefore no reason to promote its longevity. Why on earth, do you think, they’re putting blacks and other non whites into positions of power in white countries?
Thirdly, blacks DON’T do high civilization. They’re not capable of maintaining them, because they do not have the work ethic required for it to survive. More so, what permeates, deep within blacks (and certainly many whites) is the attitude of extreme selfishness. There is no love for the survival of their nation. This is epitomized by the high black on black crime figures, none more so than in Chicago.
The only thing worse than a black racist is a black homosexual racist. And the only thing worse than a black, homosexual racist, is a black, homosexual, Jewish racist.
As with blacks having no desire to keep white civilization white and thus in existence, it’s exactly the same for homosexuals. White civilization is, in its roots, Christian and heterosexual. Take away those two and you don’t have white civilization. I’m, by no means, stating that white civilization can’t be pagan, as that’s how it was before Christ, but I’m talking about white civilization from 0BC onwards.
Many do say that Christianity destroyed white civilization. I disagree. Weak people who call themselves Christians and who most certainly are not, destroyed white civilization. But really, whether Christian or non, what really destroyed white civilization was trade and travel. It opened up new lands and those people then moved into your lands. Roll on to the 20th century, post WW2 and they were coming in by their thousands. Immigration is colonization.
I’ve digressed somewhat but the reality is that you cannot put blacks and homosexuals into positions of power, within a nation and expect good things. You’re simply lighting the fuse to the bomb and nothing more.
Blacks, courtesy of the jews, are reminded of slavery. Homosexuals, courtesy of jews, are reminded of the persecution of homosexuals by the church. Give blacks and lesbians power and its pay back time. This does not bode well for white heterosexuals, does it?
What a weirdo to look at and listen to. Beetlejuice ?, if only she is like something out of the living dead, old Al Capone will be spinning in his grave when he sees what’s happened to the once peaceful and prosperous city he lived in.
wonderful
more of those crazynesses !
A typical buck-dancing, bojangling negro. Another self-entitled fool, who gets in because of the colour of their skin. She cannot do anything, because she doesn’t have any ideas, all she sees is racism, not hers by the way, but of others. She talks of diversity, but lives in a country that is mainly white, but anyway, let Shitcago, kill itself, negroes will continue to go around killing each other, but blame it on white supremacy, have an ineffective mayor, but blame it on white supremacy. The colour of her skin, indicates that she represents the city, but like many other black mayors in the U.S.A are completely and utterly useless.
white elephant is right
i was a race relations counselor some of the things i saw makes me say black folk should be gently returned to africa
sorry i thought this creature was a man ?The society osteopath treated me after a teenage car crash
he also knew the Church of England exorcist, the Rev Christopher Neil-Smith
he exorcised many homosexials and brought them back to normality showing how eveil same sex really is
and why it is done by satainists
sorrry the society osteopath was the one murdered by MI 5 Stephen Ward
You read this and think, “she can’t possibly be serious and truly believe what she is saying. Surely she is just saying/acting for some ulterior motive and knows it’s all bs!”
But then you understand that she really does believe it all — every bit of it!
Not only do you begin thinking about “The Bell Curve,” but you also start wondering how somebody like this manages to reach a high position. Did the cartel pick her to promote especially because she is such a human cull?
If you haven’t figured it out yet, just watch the movie ‘Planet of the Apes’ (1968) to see how its all going to end…
Brian USA,
“The racist major against Whites seems to ignore the race issue of the homicides in Chicago perhaps because according to an announcement from Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office 95% of the murder victims in 2020 in Cook County, home of Chicago, are people of color.”
Anyway, of course she knows this, but you don’t bring in logic when it comes women and blacks, just as you don’t bring in meritocracy when it comes to affirmative action/positive discrimination.
Remember that blacks are doing, precisely, what their jew handlers are telling them to do:
1. Blame whitey for everything, even when it’s predominantly blacks who are doing wrong.
2. The truth is what YOU want the truth do be, regardless what it actually really is.
3. Continue to attack, rob, rape and murder whites and we will continue to give you protection through control of politics, law and order. And with control of the latter, we’ll prosecute those whites, who defend themselves against your criminality.
This is the reality. They know they’re doing wrong. All black people know that they don’t belong in our civilization, but by holding on long enough, to the race war, they’ve been promised our land and civilization. Only problem is, the white civilization is akin to the goose that lays the golden eggs. Once you kill the goose, there are no more golden eggs. They’re too stupid to realize this, failing to understand that Africa is as Africa is because it’s full of black people.
Subliminally, the word “racist” also triggers the word “rapist” in the mind and has very little significance on its own–“what–you think there are different Races and that they are not all the same? Does someone have a problem with that? Show me this weirdo”.
Do you know what? Akon and DJ Khalid sang a tune called We Taking Over. That’s exactly what Black folks are doing. Look at the UFC. Adesanya, Usman and Ngannou are bossing it. Empires rise and then they fall. Mother Nature is calling time on the Anglo-Saxon Neo-Roman Empire.
You people should realize by now that blacks will never merge in with a civilized society. They will never listen and it’s always the other races faults and not theirs. They are not even intelligent enough to sit down and debate black and whites issues that are causing strife’s in our society, all they do is scream and yell and will never let the white person talk, be cause they are usually right. That’s why this carpet muncher moron doesn’t want to take questions from whites. Years back Roy Ennis, another black moron was debating a very brilliant black professor on the subject of blacks getting ahead in our society. The professor stated that George Washington Carver wanted the blacks to advance themselves by getting an education and also by hard work. Ennis went nuts and stated that whites owed the blacks and he just yell out very loud each time the profess tried to talk. You cannot deal with these sub-humans and they are going to take everyone down with them. That’s why you never hear much about Mr. Carver, a brilliant man but they will run with the likes of Mad Max, Sharpton and other black dim wits.
Adams Family, uncle Fester’s crumpet ??
Well IMHO only uncle Fester would be interested ?
What the authors do not understand is that by the narrative only Whites can be racists. That all Whites are racists. That the appearance of racism from POC is simply a defense against White supremacy.
Everything happening (shootings, robberys, rapes, looting, assaults, etc) in Shitcago, Minneapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis et all,,, is directly due to racism and White supremacy.
Come on,,, everyone should know the routine by now!
Akon & DJ Khalid,
First off, never heard of them. Then again, I know nothing about (c)rap & hip hop. Ironically, nothing more than the ripping off of the beat poets (Kerouac & Burroughs).
Secondly, your post, ironically epitomizes just what the non whites (Africans and Arabians/Pakistanis) are in the west – the monkeys dancing, while the Jew, grinds the organ.
Jew communism does precisely the opposite of white culture. It drops everything down to the lowest common denominator, instead of raising people up to the pinnacle of success. Instead of teaching children to strive to be the best, it teaches them not to win and instead to all feel sorry for the fat kid, too lazy to run and instead declare him the winner, because he always loses.
And so, with your reply, you sum up just that. Western civilization is debased. It’s been dropped down to the lowest of the low – the African and Indian sub continent immigrant. They dress themselves up in bling and think themselves so wonderful that they can make words rhyme, to basic music tones and if there’s anything more than a couple of semi quavers, it’s been sampled from a musical score, they haven’t the capability to replicate, let alone understand.
You probably will take over, but then, you’ll be taking over the dregs of western civilization (the height of African and Indian culture). You will be master of the sewer, with all the white zombies, incapable of stringing a coherent sentence together, hip-hopping about, with that monkey gait, with their pants around their knees, a sorry excuse for humanity. The intelligent whites, will have left and gone to greener pastures. The golden goose has gone. All you have left are the duds. The only gold you’ll get from them, are from the bling on their necks and teeth.
So not much to aspire to take over, I’m sorry to have to say. When the whites go, the society you’ll live in will be no different to the sh*thole society your ancestors left to get into the splendor of white civilization.
You don’t get that.
You never get that.
A civilization only is what it is, if the people, who created it, remain in charge and continue striving for brilliance, constantly upping their game.
The U.S. should have concentrated on its citizens and their development. Since WW2 the whole focus has been on the outside world and domination.
Corporations and military contractors have made a whole lot of money by backing endless conflict in the middle East and other parts of the world. American people of ALL races are taxed mercilessly yet left to fend for themselves.
One looks in wonder and it’s amazing to see how ALL that education amounts to nothing in the end.
The country is in terminal decline. The people are polarized by sexual orientation…skin color… mother tongue…economic status… gender…or lack thereof.
Wouldn’t it be a start to see them polarized by religious beliefs…. then at least you got something… A belief in the Divine and that’s the beginning of everything positive. The United States was built on a foundation of belief in the Divine and faith in the Divine.
It’s the non believing selfish and self centred hedonistic and perverted who have destroyed what was a great nation that set an example to the rest of the world.
Now it’s a byword for loss and degradation.
It’s a travesty… but there you have it… let it be a lesson for the generations to come.
The truth is White people are now bitter because their “civilization” is now being crushed under the unforgiving boot of the Jew who, like their Jesuit network of the Medusa, are happy for the end to justify the means.
White Westerners allowed the Jew to remove God from their classrooms, their homes and their society altogether. By agreeing to being “secularised” by the Jew, White Westerners lost their love for God who then abandoned them in His righteous indignation.
Jeremiah, Isaiah and Ezekiel all prophesy of the Day of the LORD when He will judge the nations in His wrath with fire and brimstone as He did to Sodom and Gomorrah.
The hubris, haughtiness, sexual perversions and countless abominations of the White Westerners will be judged and crushed by God in His wrath. This explains the ongoing demise of the Anglo-Saxon Neo-Roman Empire.
Blacks in Power = Always Liberia.Never Wakanda! People of the Abyss! Low IQ and blaming me and you!
They ain’t all like Denzil Washington,that’s for sure!
Does Soros back Lightfoot like he does with London’s Sadiq Khan,I wonder?
To A and DJ–there is no neo-Roman Anglo-Saxon Empire. Angles and Saxons are two tribes of North Germany and a bit of Denmark and were resistant to Rome, not defeated until near the end of Christianity’s rule (which was in the 1300s). As for Rome itself, it lost its character in favour of the Jewish Messiah routine, which should make us vomit.