- Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed racism and her gender for her landslide defeat in her re-election bid as Chicagoans weary of the rising crime on her watch celebrated her fall from “political rock star to rock bottom.”
- “I’m a black woman in America. Of course,” she replied when asked by a reporter if she had been treated unfairly.
- But she called being Chicago’s mayor “the honor of a lifetime.”
- The mayor had also injected race into the run-up to the election. “I am a black woman — let’s not forget,” Lightfoot, 60, told the New Yorker in a piece that ran Saturday. “Certain folks, frankly, don’t support us in leadership roles.”
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Surprise! Lori Lightfoot Blames Mayoral Election Loss On Racism And Sexism
Because OF COURSE she did!
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - JUNE 07: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks to guests at an event held to celebrate Pride Month at the Center on Halstead, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community center, on June 07, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Lightfoot is the first openly gay mayor of the city of Chicago. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
