Posted on 06/19/2020 5:48:43 AM PDT by Libloather
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday lambasted as “clearly racist” and “deeply offensive” a tweet by the Chicago Teachers Union depicting an apparent cartoon version of her tied up, wearing a police uniform and being unmasked by the characters from the “Scooby-Doo” TV show.
The tweet depicts the African American mayor bound with rope, surrounded by the white characters, who have taken a police officer mask off her head to reveal that the officer is actually Lightfoot. It’s a play on the scene at the end of each episode of the Hanna Barbera cartoon, when the team of youngsters would solve the mystery by unmasking a villain to show it was actually a person they’d met earlier in the episode.
Lightfoot said she hadn’t seen the tweet, but had it described to her.
“Let me say this: If that kind of tweet, which is clearly racist, had been put forward by a right wing group, we would rightly be denouncing them, and I think our scorn should be no less because it was put out by the CTU,” she said at a morning news conference about repairs to the lakefront trail.
“It’s certainly disappointing when a group that professes to be educators, people who are in our classrooms, teaching our young people, would engage in these kinds of really deeply offensive and disappointing tactics,” Lightfoot added.
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Velma is “Pat”.
Poor thing! It has nothing to complain about. It enjoys THREE special privileges and get-out-of-jail-free cards. It can do anything it wants, and never be held accountable. So it should shut up.
We still have a few more chapters to write says America..don't give up on me.
She had a mask on that showed her as a white cop. That is the same as a white person in black face, White face, cultural appropriation, impersonating a LEO. She should be ashamed of herself.
The cohort of Lori’s supporters is being redefined.
Yes, the Chicago teachers should have known better. They should have known that ANY criticism of a black Democrat politician will be considered racist behavior.
Anyway, unions can often be feisty. Will the Chicago teachers apologize, or will they tell Her Honor to go pound salt? I’m betting on an apology. The Teamsters they ain’t.
they have responded
no apology
Racism aside, I’m afraid I don’t get it.
Was Lori Lightfoot secretly a big advocate of police in the public schools, and that’s what the teachers’ union was getting at???
Sorry in advance for being dense!
Spot on. You get the prize for accuracy in journalism. Sadly.
Ruh Roh!
This is a classic case of the Left eating their own. Get out the Popcorn.
When everything is racist, then nothing is racist.
Not just racist but clearly racist, darned if l see it. Just keeping crying wolf until it loses all meaning. Idiots
Haha! Fat Frickin Chance sport.
Crook county always delivers for the machine.
Learn it.
Live it.
Love it
Jussie Smallett loaned the rope?
Because when you are a racist, ALL YOU EVER SEE is racism...
union wanted the other candidate
“It’s certainly disappointing when a group that professes to be educators, people who are in our classrooms, teaching our young people, would engage in these kinds of really deeply offensive and disappointing tactics,”
Hey Lori, maybe the CTU is deeply disappointed by how you allow lawlessness, gang warfare and black-on-black murder to be an example for Chicago youth.
At least it wasn’t a Beetlejuice cartoon. By the way, isn’t Scooby Doo now fifty years old?
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