Posted on 05/19/2021 4:48:37 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
"It's a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly White in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI or Native American."
Lightfoot called the racial make-up of the City Hall press corps "an imbalance that needs to change," adding that Chicago's local media "should reflect the multiple cultures that comprise it."
Chicago Tribune reporter Gregory Pratt was among those disagreeing with the policy.
"I am a Latino reporter @chicagotribune whose interview request was granted for today," Pratt tweeted. "However, I asked the mayor’s office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled. Politicians don’t get to choose who covers them."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
Racists be racist.....nothing to see here.
White reporters should lose their jobs because the mayor is black.......racist.
We should just call her what she is.......
I think that she needs to clarify that the black person needs to be a lesbian as well.
Racist.
Also, lawyers and the courts would no doubt have something to say if it was a white mayor stating that it was now his policy to never give black journalists an interview, but since it’s a black Dem, no one will go there.
Good for Mr. Pratt. Stood up to the racist.
White is a color the last I heard.
racist to the core.
and insane, too
Well I’m part American Indian. Wonder if I could talk to this person?
ROTFLOL!!!!
As the Mayor of my Homestead, I would imagine there could be a problem if I issued a similar blanket statement. Not that my northern VT town has many minorities - outside of illegal farm workers.
She won’t even allow a white tranny to interview her?
One of the best comedy skits out of many movies.
The Making of the Famous Jive Talk Scenes from Airplane!
https://www.openculture.com/2014/12/the-making-of-the-famous-jive-talk-scenes-from-airplane.html
—”White is a color the last I heard.”
Technically white is a shade, made from all the colors.
Black is the absence of all color, a shade.
Depends on who you ask.
A trick question!
No more science or art classes.
—”Well I’m part American Indian. Wonder if I could talk to this person?”
Not much of a voting group in Chiraq.
If you happen to have a pile of money...
What an embarrassment.
I’m dumb like you,...
She’s trying to normalizing racism - one way only, of course.
The ugly lesbo has issued her decree.
It’s not going to end well for Beetlejuice
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