Post by robeiae on May 20, 2021 7:10:53 GMT -5
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot hits another one out of the park: nypost.com/2021/05/19/chicagos-mayor-refuses-to-give-interviews-to-white-reporters/
Of course, someone with a little sense tried to mitigate the damage:
The twitter back and forth is pretty good:
If you read through the responses, Lightfoot has a lot of defenders, all most all of whom claim she's being taken out of context, that her office is merely "prioritizing" interviews based on skin color (which is still effing stupid), but then Lightfoot comes out and says point blank that "nope, only journos of color."
“By now, you may have heard the news that on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as Mayor of this great City, I will be exclusively providing one-on-one interviews with journalists of color,” Lightfoot said in a letter to local media provided The Post.
“As a person of color, I have throughout my adult life done everything that I can to fight for diversity and inclusion in every institution that I have been a part of and being Mayor makes me uniquely situated to shine a spotlight on this most important issue.”
“As a person of color, I have throughout my adult life done everything that I can to fight for diversity and inclusion in every institution that I have been a part of and being Mayor makes me uniquely situated to shine a spotlight on this most important issue.”
Of course, someone with a little sense tried to mitigate the damage:
A Lightfoot spokesperson later clarified that the protest only pertains to interviews about her anniversary in office.
The twitter back and forth is pretty good:
If you read through the responses, Lightfoot has a lot of defenders, all most all of whom claim she's being taken out of context, that her office is merely "prioritizing" interviews based on skin color (which is still effing stupid), but then Lightfoot comes out and says point blank that "nope, only journos of color."
