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Opinion: It’s time to end the disrespect toward high-profile Black women leaders
Chicago Sin-Times ^
| January 14, 2022
| By Ald. Roderick T. Sawyer, Others
Posted on 01/14/2022 8:12:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Countless news reports during the past year have bemoaned the increasing hostility people are expressing towards each other in their everyday interactions. We have seen this lack of civility and respect come to a boil locally as well, especially towards Black women.
This past week, Chicago Teacher’s Union President Jesse Sharkey said Mayor Lori Lightfoot was “relentlessly stupid” in her positions during negotiations of the dispute between the Chicago Public Schools and CTU.
We see this at the national level too.
No vice president in American history has endured more ferocious criticism than Vice President Kamala Harris. President Biden has said Harris has his full confidence, and he has given her high-profile assignments. Yet she has faced constant behind-the-scenes gossip, including stories about staff members resigning, and negative anecdotes from sources who won’t speak on the record.
In all of these instances, the common thread is that Black women are constantly challenged. They have had their intelligence, leadership, or commitments questioned, as if there is nothing they can do that is right.
This disrespectful behavior is especially disheartening as we continue to battle a pandemic that has disproportionately harmed communities of color.
It’s time to do better and that should start with Black women. Let’s listen to them more, respect their views, and change the discourse in this country for the better.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackwomen; eugenesawyer; gobacktotheghetto; journalism; lorilightfoot; media; press; race; respect; rodericksawyer
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To: Leaning Right
In all fairness she used her gifts to get what she wanted
That’s hardly uncommon for women...
She’s simply not charismatic or terribly informed
Poor choice by Obama’s third term team
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posted on
01/14/2022 9:18:27 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Do we really think a culture vested in transgenderism can defeat 6000 years of mankind so easily...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Will these racists also stop the disrespect towards whites? NO? Didn’t think so.
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posted on
01/14/2022 9:19:55 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Arm up! They Have!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I agree 100% that we shouldn't say bad things about them because they are black and female. After all, there are plenty of black females who can command respect for their accomplishments. So, let me reframe the critisms, because this isn't about the race and sex.
Lori Lightfoot isn't an ugly, incompetent, petty, statist, racist douchebag because she is black and female. She is ugly, incompetent, petty, statist, and a racist douchebag because she is a Leftist Marxist Mayor in charge of a city that is violently out of control due to her policies and those like her who came before her.
Kamala Harris isn't an inarticulate, ugly, incompetent, petty, statist, racist, unlikeable Affirmative action prostitute who slept her way to the top because she is black and female. She is inarticulate, ugly, incompetent, petty, statist, racist, and an unlikeable Affirmative Action prostitute who slept her way to the top because she is a Leftist, Marxist Vice President who has shown she is incapable of any job more challenging than laying on her back while the clock is running.
Maxine Waters isn't a hideously corrupt, ignorant, stupid, racist, partisan, statist piece of anti-American ugly dog-crap grifter because she is black and female. She is hideously corrupt, ignorant, stupid, racist, partisan, statist, and an piece of ugly dog-crap grifter because she is a Leftist, Marxist Vice President. I am all for insulting, denigrating, and criticizing them for the things they can control but but choose not to, rather than insulting, denigrating, and criticizing them for the things they cannot control such as their sex and skin pigmentation, which only matter to Leftists anyway.
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posted on
01/14/2022 9:22:02 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
To: All
Well, Maxine Waters isn’t VP yet, but give her time. Typo on my part.
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posted on
01/14/2022 9:24:29 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Are they really black women “leaders” or are they black women politicians that ended up where they are by not by leadership, but by which of the PC boxes they fill?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
True equality means that being a member of a “protected class” doesn’t protect you from warranted criticism.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sorry, but respect is earned, not demanded.
Same goes for disrespect.
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posted on
01/14/2022 9:29:02 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
How many times did they call for an end to disrespect of Trump or any of their political enemies? 🤪
Never
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posted on
01/14/2022 9:33:54 AM PST
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Criticizing a black woman’s performance is not racism or sexism. And Lightfoot and Harris have done much that deserves criticism.
To: Dead Corpse
I wonder how many black women in the Chicago ‘hood see her as one of their own.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
They’re WRONG as usual. It’s time to INCREASE disrespect for Marxist, anti-freedom, anti-American leaders, whether they are black women or not.
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posted on
01/14/2022 9:53:59 AM PST
by
backwoods-engineer
(But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
To: gloryblaze
3. But they all work for the DNC...
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posted on
01/14/2022 9:56:28 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(A Psalm in napalm...)
To: T.B. Yoits
Bingo.
Unless you are a child of the participation trophy era, you’d know this.
Roll a turd in all the sprinkles you have, it is still just a turd. And, that is the case of all tokens, regardless of their starting point.
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posted on
01/14/2022 9:57:30 AM PST
by
bobbo666
(Baizuo)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Reminds me of an old Affirmative Action joke:
"You're only firing me because I'm Black!"
"No, I only hired you because you're Black. I firing you because you're worthless."
94
posted on
01/14/2022 10:02:47 AM PST
by
Feckless
(The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Except Seares. She will be destroyed.
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posted on
01/14/2022 10:11:44 AM PST
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Criticism of female black politicians will be censored by social media. They are getting ready to elevate Kamala Harris to the Presidency.
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posted on
01/14/2022 10:16:02 AM PST
by
webheart
(I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
To: robel
Harris has been in charge of the southern border for one year. It is worse now than before she started. Harris is absolutely tone deaf. She talked about how things are moving again during the middle of a massive traffic jam on a major freeway.. Harris’s office is in shambles, people heading out the door quicker than if a skunk sprayed. Willie Brown used her as eye candy and a mistress and helped push her to her position as DA in LA. Harris repeated the BS story about “freedom”. What is there to respect?
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posted on
01/14/2022 10:32:57 AM PST
by
carcraft
(Pray for our Country)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Soros-backed Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby indicted on 4 felonies”
To: Oldeconomybuyer
So you won’t call Candice Owens, Diamond & Silk, and other black Conservative women names?
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posted on
01/14/2022 11:24:51 AM PST
by
Deplorable American1776
(I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Right. Apologize to Candace Owens and Condelezza Rice first!
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posted on
01/14/2022 11:28:20 AM PST
by
The MAGA-Deplorian
( 2022 - VOTE THE BUMS OUT —— ALL OF THEM! RE-ELECT NO ONE!)
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