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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These deranged leftists spew blatant stupidity and the media dutifully laps it up and reports it as if it makes sense when it so clearly does *not.*
This becomes absurd, when you consider, that black people are in charge in Chicago, and have been for years.
You’ve had black mayors, black city council members, black DAs, black chiefs of police, black school board members supervising black teachers and black school principals, to name a few powerful black people who run Chicago. And my crazy question is, where exactly is all this racism, when black people are in charge, and presumeably have taken steps to eradicate racism in their city?????
/sarc
Only a racist sees every aspect of life from a racial point of view.
Normal humans don’t operate that way, only democrat racists.
Yep...They run Chicago, but their white dem masters run them....
If so-called racism is the big bad wolf preying on Chicago’s black people then how come she and the chief of police are elected? Plus Barry was Senator from Chicago, Illinois and President too. Black people need to wise up and stop electing loser mentality politicians to represent them.
Chicago has a gang problem. Bust up the gangs to help reduce violence and keep the family unit together for accountability in their children.
They are the puppets for their white dem masters who really run Chicago....
So ... the older truism was that ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a Scoundrel’ (Samuel Johnson 1775). Now the LEFT has retooled it as voiced by this feckless Chicago Mayor to ‘Racism is the refuge of a Dim Hack as there is nothing to lose from it!’
Hi.
Chicago and IL have the strictest gun laws in the country. Especially Cook county. The murder rate for Black on black crime is through the roof.
And they still haven’t confiscated all the white colored handguns in the city yet?
Maybe I’m missing something?
5.56mm
What is she going to do about the black on black crime and the black on everyone else crime? She hasn’t done anything about it since she was installed.
Meanwhile the ferals dragged a Puerto Rican couple from a car and shot them. Let’s see if Lori classifies this as a racist attack.
Punk: “Were with The Vipers Asshole! Crissy: “Oooooh what’s that, yer girl scout troop?! (From the Sopranos!)
As a former Chicago Policeman, I can say that racism impacted my life and compelled me to leave the department early. What she says is true.
But she has the roles reversed.
It is about time that the GOP stopped with all the excuses and set up a campaign to vote idiots like this woman off the public payroll for good. She is no good to anyone.
What is she even talking about? All the problems they have are caused by democrats and gangs of color. Racism has nothing to do with it, aside for their unnatural hatred of white peoples.
“Systemic Racism” - brought to you by Democrats who have run these same cities for generations.
If people like her are allowed to spew this hatred, without rebuttal, the downstream repercussions will involve violence that will make last year’s Antifa and BLM riots look very tame. She, and so many others, are sending the message that it is OK to target white people, and that it is a sinless act. Whites are now the Jews of 1930s Germany.
With regards health disparities, blacks have the highest rate of obesity of any race or ethnicity in the United States. That doesn’t help.
No.
Gangs are killing other gangs’ members and their neighbors.
Racism isn’t responsible for the depredations of the gangs, their own evil hearts are.
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