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Posted on 07/08/2020 9:57:07 AM PDT by simpson96
In the latest back and forth between two fierce political rivals, Mayor Lori Lightfoot expressed outrage Thursday over a tweet by the Chicago Teachers Union that she called “clearly racist” and an example of a “right-wing” tactic.
There’s no love lost between the mayor and the ultra-progressive CTU, which gave Lightfoot her first major political test with an 11-day teachers strike last fall, just months after her election.
After months of accusations by the CTU that Lightfoot’s school policies are racist, the tables turned as the mayor accused the union of tweeting an offensive meme.
The CTU tweet, posted Wednesday evening, is a play on the ending of many episodes of the mystery cartoon “Scooby-Doo,” when the characters on the show capture and unmask the villain. In this case, the meme reveals the villain is Lightfoot in a Chicago police officer’s uniform. She is tied up with a rope around her torso and surrounded by the show’s characters, who are all white.
The tweet was captioned with calls to defund police and remove officers from Chicago Public Schools, two policy demands that the mayor has so far adamantly rejected.
Lightfoot said Thursday she hadn’t actually seen the tweet, “but it has been described to me.” She branded it “clearly racist,” “deeply offensive” and “borrowing a playbook from the right-wing.”
“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,” the mayor said during an unrelated news conference along the south lakefront.
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Everything blacks don’t like is racist. Everything a white person says or does is racist. Shall we actually be racist then, Lori? Because I think if we were, cartoons would not even be on your list of things to worry about. You wouldn’t be “mayor” of a big city, but instead would be doing my laundry, and getting a beating if you did it wrong. Is that happening Lori? Pound sand with the “racism” BS Lori. It only exists in your cold hateful lesbian heart. We are only going to stand for so much of this noise. Many, like me, have reached their limits of tolerance with you. Get with the program or things really will get ugly. You will long for the days before your useful idiots pulled down statues. Take down every monument to the past and you just might re-live it. There are many more of us, and we’re getting angry. You won’t like us when we get angry.
If they could but eviscerate each other.
Face it, there is no other countervailing force in Chicago other than various flavors of leftists and progressives all fighting amongst themselves. Conservatives have no detectable presence whatsoever.
She would’ve got re-elected if it wasn’t for those meddling kids.
I am the Godfather to the 2nd generation of the niece and nephews of Clarence Thomas and the grandchildren of of Rev. Charles Stokes. My wife and I helped take care of the Reverand and his wife as they passed away several years ago. I built the Reverand a laptop so that he could be comfortable while he was bedridden. One of his grandsons is named after me.
Rev. Charles Stokes built his church right after he marched with MLK.
We bought the children Children Christmas gifts and decorations for years, just so that they could have presents to open. My wife was an amazing woman.
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I, for one, am just about done with this racist crap. Of all the White people I have ever known, not one of them would I call a racist. Quite the contrary.
For that matter, I don’t know anyone who I would call an antiSemite either.
Quite frankly, folks had better glad that all this racist talk is online because if I heard someone say it face-to-face, I might deliver a knuckle sandwich to said person.
“..And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for those meddling BLM-white folks!”
Your race isn't the problem...gorgeous!
All Danes are white. Even the great Danes.
I think here in the South we know plenty of people who sacrificed and gave of themselves to nurture racial harmony. My own mother was a head start teacher who made unbelievable sacrifices for those kids when she didn't have to.
All this talk of racism is a slap in the face to many who have done so damn much.
That’s a hateful-, evil-looking countenance.
It’s a “turf war” for control and power.
That’s exactly what it is...evil and vengeful.
Thank you. My wife did the hard work.
Teachers don’t like Mayor Groot. Cops can’t stand her. And her racist BLM is pinned down by Mexicans armed with AKs. Will her 75 bodyguards be enough?
‘Your race isn’t the problem...gorgeous!’
LOL
She’s ugly, she’s stupid, she’s a dyke. Yet she latches onto her race? She’s also a racist.
Yeah because the Union Rep. that retweeted the harmless Scooby Doo graphic captioned it “Y’all are too much sometimes” Obviously Chicago is Teaming with White Southerner Crackers tossing around the term “Y’all”. Lightfoot is a looser, hack, and not worthy of running the Dog Pound.
“loser”
A long time ago some black racist agitator, maybe it was Sharpton or maybe not, claimed that dogs are racist.
I agree with your post… up to the “Groot” crack.
Don’t insult Groot like that! Groot is lovable!
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