The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
and his fellow Democrats have talked incessantly about racial ’equity’. On his first day in office, in fact, Biden signed an Executive Order on ’Advancing Racial Equity’. For those not paying close attention, it is possible to think that this notion of equity is synonymous with equality. But it is becoming clearer by the day that equity means the opposite of equal treatment and opportunity — it’s a new form of racial discrimination.
Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway..., the mayor of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
, provides the latest example of a Democratic politician deploying ’equity’ to reward some racial groups and punish others. Last week she said she would not conduct interviews with white news hounds. ’I will be exclusively providing one-on-one interviews with journalists of colour’, she said. Lightfoot said this is a protest against ’the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets, editorial boards, the political press corps, and yes, the City Hall press corps specifically’.
Politicians granting access to favoured journalists is nothing new. But granting access to particular racial groups is something else entirely. What if a white politician announced that he was only going to talk to white journalists? All hell would break loose, and rightly so. It is repellent to think that skin colour should be the basis of how we treat people in society and professional life. But thanks to the Democrats’ promotion of ’equity’, racial discrimination is making a comeback.
Worse still, this is being cheered on by the media. Maudlyne Ihejirika, a news hound for the Chicago Sun-Times, defended Lightfoot: ’If a mayor of the third-largest city wants to step up at this time in history and say, "Here is my effort, here was my reparative measure to address the media sector", what is the big deal? I say kudos.’ The TRiiBE, a black-oriented media platform based in Chicago, said the real outrage was the criticism of Lightfoot. ’With this outrage, y’all are implying that black and brown journalists aren’t capable of asking the hard questions’, it tweeted.
You would have thought Lightfoot would have bigger issues to address than journalists’ skin colour, given the parlous situation in Chicago. Killings were up by more than 50 per cent in 2020, and are accelerating at a similar pace so far this year. Last weekend, at least 43 people were shot across Chicago, 12 of them fatally. The dead included a 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head while sitting on the front porch of his home.