by John Perazzo
Another Democrat carries the Left's torch of hate.
Shortly after 9 p.m. on the night of May 24, a 17-year-old black youth
named Keyshawn Williams was standing on a sidewalk along Chicago’s South
Oakley Boulevard when someone in a silver BMW opened fire and killed him in a drive-by shooting.
The night before that, a 25-year-old African American named Ladell
Arnold was riding in a vehicle along West Flournoy Street in Chicago at
7:10 p.m. when he was shot and killed by a nearby gunman.
The night before that, a 46-year-old black man named Johnnie
Williams was standing on a sidewalk along Chicago’s South Michigan
Avenue at 7:30 p.m. when some people riding in two passing vehicles shot
him dead while also wounding two others.
And at 11:50 p.m. the night before that, a 15-year-old black boy named Dajon Gater
was on the front porch of a West Lexington Street house in Chicago,
when two armed males approached and killed him with a gunshot to the
head.
Like four tiny grains of sand among many thousands in an hourglass,
the names of these four dead victims blend imperceptibly into the long
list of African Americans whose lives in recent years have been snuffed
out by other blacks in the killing field known as Chicago. During the
past 12 months alone, more than 820 people have been victims of homicide in The Windy City. And most of them were blacks killed by other blacks.
Of course, you’ve never before heard of any of the four individuals
cited above – nor will you ever come across their names again – for the
simple reason that none of their deaths can be traced to the actions of a
white police officer – or to the actions of any white person at all,
for that matter. Thus, there will be no Black Lives Matter protest
marches held in their honor; no $25,000 celebrity-funded golden caskets
eternally encasing their bodies in the grave; and no gaggle of
reporters or “civil rights leaders” repeatedly recounting, with pained
and pious countenances, the tragic stories of how these four individuals
died, far too young, in America’s third largest city. No, the only
words publicly memorializing these four people will be the names etched
silently on their tombstones.
The chief political executive of the hell hole called Chicago is
Lori Lightfoot, the latest in an unbroken, 90-year line of exclusively
Democrat mayors extending all the way back to 1931. Under Lightfoot’s
stewardship, homicides in Chicago increased by an astonishing 40 percent
from 2019 to 2020 – a pattern that was seen in a host of Democrat-run
cities after George Floyd’s death a year ago. And Chicago’s
stratospheric homicide rate has continued well into 2021.
In light of the fact that violent death has become a way of life in
Lightfoot’s Chicago, it was nothing short of remarkable to hear her
recently announce that “on the occasion
of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as mayor of this great
city,” she would be “prioritizing media requests from POC reporters,” an
acronym meaning “people of color” -- rather than prioritizing the
urgent need to get the city’s murder rate under control. Chicago
political reporter Mary Ann Ahern confirmed that according to the mayor’s spokeswoman, “Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews only to Black or Brown journalists.”
Lightfoot was more than eager to defend her clearly articulated
intent to separate reporters into two separate classes, the preferred
(nonwhite) and the non-preferred (white). Like the Black Lives Matter
racists who felt wholly justified in terrorizing hundreds of American
cities and towns last year, Lightfoot is more than proud to display her
own particular brand of racism like a badge of honor. In a two-page letter
to the media, she wrote that her decision to deny interview requests
from white reporters was based on her commitment to “fight for diversity
and inclusion,” “break up the status quo” that has been “failing so
many,” and pay homage to the “historic reckoning” by which the nation
has recently been forced to confront its own “systemic racism” and its
“deep-seated legacies around institutionalized racism.” Lamenting “the
overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets,” Lightfoot
wrote:
“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 [Asian American / Pacific Islander] or Native American.”
“At the two-year anniversary of my inauguration,” Lightfoot told
the press, “I am issuing a challenge to you. Hire reporters of color –
especially women of color – to cover Chicago politics, and City Hall in
particular. If you have only a white reporter covering City Hall, make
sure there’s a person of color working with them as well.” In short,
Mayor Lightfoot feels justified in dictating to private media companies
exactly how they should allocate their limited financial resources, and
whom they should hire to do which jobs. As is invariably the case with
self-identified leftwing warriors for “racial justice,” the spirit of
totalitarianism burns bright and hot in the heart of Lori Lightfoot.
Nor is racial obsession anything new for Mayor Lightfoot. She’s very
comfortable with it. Indeed, just three months ago Lightfoot proudly announced that “a racial healing
and historical reckoning” initiative known as the Chicago Monuments
Project, which the city had launched six months earlier to confront the
“hard truths of Chicago’s racial history,” had determined that no fewer
than 41 separate statues and monuments situated in various locations
across the city could be subject to removal from the public square
because they: (a) “promot[e] narratives of white supremacy”; (b)
“memorializ[e] individuals with connections to racist acts, slavery and
genocide”; (c) presen[t] selective, over-simplified, one-sided views of
history”; and (d) do “not sufficiently include[e] other stories, in
particular those of women, people of color and themes of labor,
migration and community building.” The purportedly offensive statues and
monuments include those erected in honor of such notables as Abraham
Lincoln, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Franklin, William
McKinley, Leif Ericson, the French missionary Jacques Marquette, and
the cartographer Louis Jolliet.
“This project is a powerful opportunity for us to come together as a
city to assess the many monuments and memorials across our
neighborhoods and communities—to face our history and what and how we
memorialize that history,” Lightfoot said.
This was particularly important, the mayor emphasized, in light of “the
past year and in particular the past summer that made clear [that
America’s racist] history isn’t past.”
The standards by which Mayor Lightfoot is prepared to pass judgment
on the alleged moral deficiencies of historical giants and national
heroes, stand in stark contrast to the standards by which she judges
modern-day leftists.
Consider, for instance, how Lightfoot, in the early days of her mayoralty two years ago, gleefully celebrated the passage
of Illinois’ so-called Reproductive Health Act (RHA), which repealed
the state's Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act; removed restrictions on
late-term abortions and on the imposition of criminal penalties against
physicians who perform them; and expanded insurance coverage for
abortion procedures. When the RHA initially cleared the state's Human
Services Committee and was sent to the full Illinois House for
consideration, Lightfoot issued a statement saying, “I applaud the
legislators who voted yes tonight on the passage of the Reproductive
Health Act…. The time is now to ensure that we preserve access to safe,
legal abortion in our state. We won't go backwards.” When the bill was
subsequently signed into law by the governor a few weeks later,
Lightfoot said: “Today, the state of Illinois sent a clear message that
we will protect the fundamental right of residents and expand access to
reproductive health care.”
So, Lori Lightfoot’s standard is abundantly clear. Statues honoring
white people who made enormous contributions to America and to Western
civilization -- but who may have been insufficiently militant, by
Lightfoot’s reckoning, in fighting to eradicate slavery -- should be
banned from the public square as punishment for the shortcomings of
those individuals. But modern-day leftwing zealots who stand in favor of
legalizing the killing of fully formed human beings in the womb – in
the noble name of “reproductive rights,” of course – are to be hailed
and celebrated as champions of liberty.
John Perazzo
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-mayor-lori-lightfoot-john-perazzo/
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