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. Its 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 theyd met earlier in the episode.
Lightfoot said she hadnt 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.
Its 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?
Didnt you get the memo? As of 11/3/15, everything is racist.
Scooby is now white?
We might wee a bunch of white Democrats seeing the writing on the wall (or in this case the BLM graffiti ) and decide that a Democrat controlled environment is not to the benefit of White Lives Mattering.
This is all empty rhetoric that I realized years ago does not have any substance behind it and it should be ignored.
There are only so many times people can claim racism and being offended when you realize the charges are baseless.
The democRATS and the Left use the accusatory "racist" and the "I am offended" so often as to devalue them into something worthless.
People used to be horrified in the past when called a racist but nowadays just laugh it off as liberals being liberals because they have no other argument.
The boy who cried wolf too many times....
Thank you!
It was more complicated that I thought. Now I don’t feel so dumb for not “getting it.” It goes without saying that it’s not racist, though.
Lori, why is it racist?
Do you identify as white?
Nah, Scooby is a dog of color.
Nah, Scooby is a dog of color.
I’m talking about a Great American Dog....Black Lassie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRFQX34olgg
“cant believe a teachers union did it”
Believe it. The Chicago Teachers Union is genuinely communist top to bottom. To the left of Lightfoot if that is possible. Let ‘em duke it out.
There is not really a group of teenagers driving around in a van, with a talking Great Dane, solving mysteries 🙄.
Scooby-Doo is clearly a person of color.
Bkmk
Whoever did this made the mayor much less unattractive looking. You have to admit.
Silly wabbit, it’s who counts the votes that matters, that hasn’t changed.
In modern times, Velma has become the popular one. Cosplayers have made a strong case.
A lot more women are built like Velma than Daphne so its easier to cosplay (not that Im complaining too much)
I can’t stand teachers unions or chiraq mayors. They’re all horrible people. Enjoy the in-fighting.
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