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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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Where is the racism?
pretty funny
accurate
cant believe a teachers union did it
because scooby doo characters are white
anything involving white people.and i mean ANYTHING..is racist
Chicago used to deliver a ton of votes for the Democratic Party. They’ve managed to anger the police and fire department, and probably half of the school union people. Might be some kinda crazy results for the November election for Trump.
Those darn kids!.......................
All that matters is their skin color.
Nothing else.
Criticizing any black person is racist, don’cha know?
The last refuge of a scoundrel
Daphne > Velma
Hey Teachers.
What the marxists did to the police, they will do to you.
Oh great. Now they’ll be taking the dog’s name off of the boxes of Scooby Snacks.
I thought Velma was lesbo.
Anything other than solemn, obsequious reverance of black people is racism.
The look of horror on Sccoby’s face is priceless!
I guess it's racist for one reason, she's Black.
Criticism of Leftism, any Leftist policy, any Leftist, or anyone whom Leftists favor is racist. Failing to be sufficiently Leftist is racist.
Just as in the French Revolution, the mob turns on its leaders for not being sufficiently radical.
White bread is racist.
Ivory soap is racist.
White fish Montana is racist.
Whiteboard is racist.
White House is racist........
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