Posted on 01/16/2020 7:54:32 PM PST by PBRCat
An angry and emotional Mayor Lori Lightfoot admonished a handful of African American aldermen Wednesday for “demonizing” the gay community and said the “pie is big enough to slice it in lots of other ways.”
The mayor’s impassioned plea was followed by a standing ovation and a 47-1 vote to launch a study that could lay the groundwork for creating contract set-asides for gay- and transgender-owned businesses in Chicago.
African American aldermen led by Black Caucus Chairman Jason Ervin (28th) and Ald. Walter Burnett (27th) voiced concern earmarking contracts for gay business owners could pave the way for “privileged white men” to game the system again at the expense of African Americans.
They pointed to Chicago’s sordid history of minority business fraud, culminating in $100 million in janitorial contracts going to white men from a Duff family with reputed ties to organized crime during former Mayor Richard M. Daley’s administration.
They further warned there was no apparent way to prove a person’s sexuality and, therefore, that a set-aside for gay business owners would be ripe for corruption.
Lightfoot was having none of it. She was incensed by the tone of the debate, which was repeated in a milder form on the City Council floor Wednesday.
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How would they prove their gaiety?
Never mind. I don’t want to know.
Who is paying for this big pie?
Increasing the number of slices of the pie takes makes other’s slice smaller.
She’s openly lesbian. This is a major priority, affirmative action for homosexual and transsexual peoples???
Who didn’t see this coming?
If you could read my mind...
The irony...
“set-aside for gay business owners would be ripe for corruption...”
How are minority set-asides legal under the 14th Amendment?
“An angry and emotional Mayor Lori Lightfoot admonished a handful of African American aldermen Wednesday for “demonizing” the gay community and said the “pie is big enough to slice it in lots of other ways.””
Pigs fighting at the trough.
Imagine how big a slice of pie you get if you’re black AND lesbian.
Let’s you and them fight.
Those objecting could point out that homos are usually financially secure, and make sure that other homos get priority.
Homofascism and the Gay Mafia are about supremacy not equality
They want more than 2% that’s for sure
Other homos get priority because they play balls er put out
Special treatment is NOT equal treatment. Guess some folks have zip diddly for comprehension skills huh?
Unlike the rest of Chicago city contracts. < /s>
Annnnd blacks watching privileged white guys take huge chunks of business away from them......
>Imagine how big a slice of pie you get if you’re black AND lesbian.
Not as much as you would get if you were a black transexual lesbian
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