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Racist Chicago mayor slams teachers union tweet that shows her as Scooby-Doo villain: 'Clearly racist'
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU)
Thursday over a "clearly racist" tweet that depicted her wearing a police
uniform while tied up to a chair and being unmasked by white Scobby-Doo
cartoon characters.
The now-deleted image is a play on the children's cartoon where the team
would solve a mystery by unmasking a villain in each episode.
Lightfoot, an African-American, admitted to not having seen the tweet but
said it was described to her.
"If that kind of tweet, which is clearly racist, had been put forward by a
right-wing group, we would rightly be denouncing them, and I think our
scorn should be no less because it was put out by the CTU,” she said
during a news conference. “It’s certainly disappointing when a group that
professes to be educators, people who are in our classrooms teaching our
young people, would engage in these kinds of really deeply offensive and
disappointing tactics."
Lightfoot and the CTU have been at odds in recent years, according to the
Chicago Tribune, which was compounded by an 11-day strike last year that
further eroded their relationship.
In response to the tweet, CTU spokeswoman Chris Geovanis told Fox News
that Lightfoot has resisted demands from black activists to defund the
Chicago Police Department, remove its officers from Chicago public
schools, establish a civilian oversight board to investigate and fire
police officers, and make Juneteenth a paid holiday.
“To every demand this mayor and this administration has offered a
resounding ‘no,‘” Geovanis said in a statement. “It’s striking that so
many of those outraged over a meme have little to nothing to say about the
nullification of those most responsible for this moment."
"In this time of deep emotional anguish over visceral images of racial
hatred, we empathize with our Black brothers and sisters who are triggered
by any image that reminds us of the violence perpetrated against us in
this land over 400 years and counting," Geovanis added. "Our intent was,
as it always has been, to stir the powerful from their slumber and stand
steadfast behind those Black people -- and especially young Black leaders
-- in their struggle for a new Chicago built on real justice, not failed
policies and broken promises."
#CTUINC
@stacydavisgates
· 23h
Replying to @stacydavisgates
“Particularly in communities of color, where students have had their own
experiences with police, and at the high-school level, where there are
actual police officers in the schools, this is not just history,” Jen
Johnson, the chief of staff at the Chicago Teachers Union, said.
#CTUINC
@stacydavisgates
Miss me with the “racist meme.” Talk about the real issue. The
manufacturing of outrage? There’s real real outage abt real racism &
injustice.
16
7:48 PM - Jun 17, 2020
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Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates weighed in on the matter, tweeting
Wednesday night: “Miss me with the ‘racist meme.' Talk about the real
issue. The manufacturing of outrage? There’s real real outrage abt real
racism & injustice."
"The meme is racist. Not the murder. Not the coerced confessions," she
said in a subsequent tweet. "Not the unjust decades long prison sentences.
Not the abuse. Not the brutality. Not the murder. The meme. Got it."
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,
appointed dozens of judges and created jobs.
Senile loser and NAMBLA supporter Nancy Pelosi got "Trumped" on February
5, 2020. "President Trump, Not Guilty."
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU)
Thursday over a "clearly racist" tweet that depicted her wearing a police
uniform while tied up to a chair and being unmasked by white Scobby-Doo
cartoon characters.
The now-deleted image is a play on the children's cartoon where the team
would solve a mystery by unmasking a villain in each episode.
Lightfoot, an African-American, admitted to not having seen the tweet but
said it was described to her.
"If that kind of tweet, which is clearly racist, had been put forward by a
right-wing group, we would rightly be denouncing them, and I think our
scorn should be no less because it was put out by the CTU,” she said
during a news conference. “It’s certainly disappointing when a group that
professes to be educators, people who are in our classrooms teaching our
young people, would engage in these kinds of really deeply offensive and
disappointing tactics."
Lightfoot and the CTU have been at odds in recent years, according to the
Chicago Tribune, which was compounded by an 11-day strike last year that
further eroded their relationship.
In response to the tweet, CTU spokeswoman Chris Geovanis told Fox News
that Lightfoot has resisted demands from black activists to defund the
Chicago Police Department, remove its officers from Chicago public
schools, establish a civilian oversight board to investigate and fire
police officers, and make Juneteenth a paid holiday.
“To every demand this mayor and this administration has offered a
resounding ‘no,‘” Geovanis said in a statement. “It’s striking that so
many of those outraged over a meme have little to nothing to say about the
nullification of those most responsible for this moment."
"In this time of deep emotional anguish over visceral images of racial
hatred, we empathize with our Black brothers and sisters who are triggered
by any image that reminds us of the violence perpetrated against us in
this land over 400 years and counting," Geovanis added. "Our intent was,
as it always has been, to stir the powerful from their slumber and stand
steadfast behind those Black people -- and especially young Black leaders
-- in their struggle for a new Chicago built on real justice, not failed
policies and broken promises."
#CTUINC
@stacydavisgates
· 23h
Replying to @stacydavisgates
“Particularly in communities of color, where students have had their own
experiences with police, and at the high-school level, where there are
actual police officers in the schools, this is not just history,” Jen
Johnson, the chief of staff at the Chicago Teachers Union, said.
#CTUINC
@stacydavisgates
Miss me with the “racist meme.” Talk about the real issue. The
manufacturing of outrage? There’s real real outage abt real racism &
injustice.
16
7:48 PM - Jun 17, 2020
Twitter Ads info and privacy
See #CTUINC's other Tweets
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates weighed in on the matter, tweeting
Wednesday night: “Miss me with the ‘racist meme.' Talk about the real
issue. The manufacturing of outrage? There’s real real outrage abt real
racism & injustice."
"The meme is racist. Not the murder. Not the coerced confessions," she
said in a subsequent tweet. "Not the unjust decades long prison sentences.
Not the abuse. Not the brutality. Not the murder. The meme. Got it."
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,
appointed dozens of judges and created jobs.
Senile loser and NAMBLA supporter Nancy Pelosi got "Trumped" on February
5, 2020. "President Trump, Not Guilty."
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