Lightfoot says 99% of criticism she gets is because she's a black woman; black alderwoman disagrees

Chicago's soaring murder rate--as well as were weak response to two rounds of widespread looting and rioting last year are two valid reasons to criticize Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot. 

Thin-skinned and beholden to leftist, anti-cop ideology--she is not a competent mayor.

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A South Side alderwoman on Wednesday rejected Mayor Lori Lightfoot's claim that 99 percent of her critics are motivated by racism or sexism.

On WTTW's Chicago Tonight, the mayor said virtually all of the criticism she receives is because she is a Black woman.

"About 99 percent of it, Lightfoot said. "Look at my predecessors. Did people say that Rich Daley held tea sessions with people that he didn't disagree on? Rahm Emanuel was a polite guy who was a uniter? No. 

People of color are always held to a different standard." Mayor Lightfoot said she is being judged in ways her two previous white, male predecessors were not.

Jeanette Taylor, an Chicago City Council member who represents part of the violent Englewood neighborhood, called Lightfoot's claim "a copout." 

And in my opinion while Daley and Emanuel failed in their own ways, the pension bomb with the former and the Laquan McDonald killing and coverup in the latter, violent crime rates were much lower while they served as mayor.