Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot says her skin tone was DARKENED in political attack ad in 'cheap trick' to scare voters into 'false narrative' about the city as crime spirals out of control

Daily Mail UK ^ | August 25, 2022 | Alex Hammer

[Morgana]

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has accused a conservative super PAC of darkening her skin in a television ad meant to slam Illinois' Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker, calling the commercial a 'cheap trick' to scare people into voting for their candidate.

The 30-second ad - which warns in big, white lettering that 'Chicago violence is coming to the suburbs' and shows gun battles on the city's streets - touts Republican Darren Bailey as the solution to the city's current crime woes, and uses comments uttered by Lightfoot in a recent speech to seal this sentiment home.

The ad opens with Lightfoot, who is African-American, telling attendees at an April address at the City Club of Chicago, 'This will be the summer of joy' in The Windy City.

The 30-second advert then quickly cuts to several consecutive scenes of shadowy figures in the city's crime-ridden streets shooting, accompanied by the sound of gunshots and the sound of citizens' screams over the roar of gunfire.

In the clip, Lightfoot's skin appears noticeably darker than in other, unaltered recordings of her speech, during which the Democrat offered a more optimistic take on the city's crime situation - mere months after it saw its murder rate jump to a 25-year high.

On Tuesday, Lightfoot hit back at the PAC that ran the ad, calling it 'the ultimate dog whistle being propagated in support' of GOP candidate Bailey, an Illinois state senator who presides over the small town of Xenia, with a population of just 300.

She also slammed the commercial as racist, intended to scare citizens into voting red.

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[Morgana]

The darker sinned one makes her look less of a corpse but she still looks like Beatlejuice.

[heavy metal]

beetlejuice beetlejuice beetlejuice...

[Gaffer]

'I don’t think there’s any dispute that I’m African American,' Lightfoot said in response to the recently aired advertisement. 'Newsflash. I’m black and I’m proud.'

"But here, I'm too black."

This from a woman who has said that she would not give any interviews to white reporters....

[clearcarbon]

"The darker sinned one makes her look less of a corpse but she still looks like Beatlejuice."

I was thinking the same, almost to the exact same words.

[dennisw]

They made Beetlejuice more black. This gives her more street cred with “the community”. So she should thank them.

[kiryandil]

Groot's biggest danger is that someone with a large enough plastic bag will mistake her for a giant pile of dog droppings.

She's got the right color...

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Did I make her skin too light or too dark?

[Mark17]

beetlejuice beetlejuice beetlejuice...

Truly a walking, talking birth control advertisement. 🤮

[clearcarbon]

IMAGE

He face looks like a three fingered bowling ball in that image.

[867V309]

maybe so         maybe not

but

Beetlejuice

[Secret Agent Man]

They cant even define what a woman is.

I doubt they can define what “too black” is.

[airdalechief]

Those eyes aren’t found on normal pèople.

Tuoze eyes

[867V309]

Those eyes aren’t found on normal people.

dumbocraps

[Libloather]

...the Democrat offered a more optimistic take on the city's crime situation...

What doesn't kill you will make you stronger - unless you're dead?

[mad_as_he$$]

I know one of those eyes is looking at me! Not sure where the other one is looking.

[Phoenix8]

Before I was permanently banned on Craigslist I would go and ask the people on Chicago’s site a very simple and inoffensive question;

“Why do you keep re-electing this female?” Then I would add something like a crime statistic, business moving out, the idea of other black people who might be better qualified.

My question was flagged and deleted every single time. Apparently there are many people in that town that hold her as sacred.

[sphinx]

Black, female and lesbian. She’s the liberal trifecta. And she’s crazy, howl-at-the-moon level wacko, just to seal the deal. And of course, she’s a union stooge so that holds the government workers in line.

[867V309]

Black, female and lesbian. She’s the liberal trifecta. And she’s crazy, howl-at-the-moon level wacko, just to seal the deal. And of course, she’s a union stooge so that holds the government workers in line.

well, face it, Chicago's dead.      dead.

no more industry

killings

no more corporate

killings

no more small business

killings

killings

[Apparatchik]

She ain’t lying’. Here’s her natural skin tone: