Posted on 06/20/2021 4:27:58 PM PDT by simpson96
CHICAGO (CBS) — Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday declared systemic racism a public health crisis in Chicago, saying disparities in access to effective and affordable health care, the impact of racism on the mental health of people of color, and the subsequent difference in life expectancy “is literally killing us.”
“At almost every point in our city’s history, sadly, racism has taken a devastating toll on the health and well-being of our residents of color, and particularly those who are Black,” Lightfoot said. “Without formally acknowledging this history and reality, and the continuing impact of that infamous legacy, looking at the root causes of today’s challenges, we will never be able to move forward as a city and fully provide our communities with the resources that we need to live happy, vibrant, and fulfilled lives.”(snip)
In declaring racism to be a public health crisis, Lightfoot joined several other cities around the nation that have made similar proclamations.
“When we think about racism, many of us think about it in visible and audible forms, but the reality is the insidious nature of systemic racism has other impacts that are every bit as deep and harmful, but often ones that we can’t see, like the impacts on the psyche and other impacts on our bodies that are just as, if not more deadly,” Lightfoot said.(snip)
“My parents, like so many others of their generation and other generations were indoctrinated to believe that they could never, ever be able to reach for and accomplish their dreams. This was and still is the case for far too many Black residents and residents of color in our city, and ladies and gentlemen, it is literally killing us here in Chicago,” she said.
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How convenient for the incompetent race-baiter - it'll NEVER go away, never be fixed.
What's just as appalling as her racist idiocy, is all the people (voters) in Chicago, solemnly nodding in agreement as she speaks.
Wouldn't surprise me if this lunatic calls for all whites in Chicago to pay higher taxes than non-whites, across the board.
Meanwhile, silence on the actual deaths caused by B-on-B shootings.
A good start would be for uneducated, fatherless, black gangbangers to get lead injections rather than mollycoddled by the courts. Then the murder rate would drop dramatically.
I looked up Racism and it says it’s a Belief so the people that throw it around are ignorant
Don’t black people run chicago?
Yep Blacks killing blacks on a daily basis, obviously racism and stuff
Do something about all those black racists then.
She and her allies are the ones who almost single handedly have indoctrinated blacks in this mindset, and have done all in their power to keep them there.
The poverty and violence in the black community is on their hands, and hands of the racist race baiters.
“is literally killing us.”
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No BeetleJuice, your policies are killing your peeps.
Well, she’s half right. Chicago does appear to have an out of control Negro problem. At all levels, Ms. Lightfoot.
As many as 70 active and inactive Chicago street gangs with 753 factions have been identified.[6][7] Some of the gangs that contribute most of the crime on the streets of Chicago:
Gangster Disciples
Vice Lords
Black P. Stones
Latin Kings
Black Disciples
Maniac Latin Disciples
Spanish Cobras
Almighty Saints
Spanish Gangster Disciples
Four Corner Hustlers
Former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy blames Chicago’s gang culture for its high rates of homicide and other violent crime, stating “It’s very frustrating to know that it’s like 7% of the population causes 80% of the violent crime...The gangs here are traditional gangs that are generational, if you will. The grandfather was a gang member, the father’s a gang member, and the kid right now is going to be a gang member.”[3]
There are an estimated 100,000 gang members in Chicago.
The above is according to Wikipedia.
But, as we know, we aren’t allowed to talk about gang violence, because it would be racist. We aren’t allowed to talk about gang killings, because that would be racist. We are only allowed to talk about killings in the context of the weapon used to commit the crime.
It seems to me that this is where we get stuck in societal debates about this issue. We aren’t allowed to talk about the youth gangs. We aren’t allowed to say that the overwhelming majority are black youth. We aren’t allowed to say the overwhelming majority come from fatherless homes.
There is a lot we aren’t allowed to talk about. Liberals such as Lightfoot only talk about the fact that they use guns in their crimes, and then launch into the gun control debate.
> but often ones that we can’t see <
Mayor Lightfoot: There is a huge, ugly elephant in this room.
Citizen: I don’t see any elephant.
Mayor Lightfoot: Of course you can’t. It’s hidden. You cannot see it, hear it, or feel it. Nevertheless, there is a huge, ugly elephant in this room. And you are an evil person for even questioning it.
There is no way you can reason with somebody like that.
Black people killing black people... You gotta hate white people when that happens.
Murder is literally killing the people in Chicago
Never cry wolf.
Yes, what kind of pseudo-proof could she offer showing somehow white people and their racism is causing blacks to be wildly violent and often kill blacks along with white victims?
How?
Where?
Like “let’s see who is killing people” would result in hundreds of black criminal videos. Often with white victims. Proving blacks are the racists.
Lightfoot has mental issues and even her own people want her out but they are stuck with her
I don’t see this ever going away as long as there are sufficient numbers of cowardly woke white people that go along with it.
It appears the thought being put forward is that having to work to achieve is causing death due to racism. Racism in that context, as defined, is refusing to hand the goods over. However, just giving people what they want, houses, cars, various forms of wealth would diminish the death rate.
She’s a sodomite so her morality and Weltanschauung is warped.
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