The New York Times early this morning posted a half-hour long conversation between writer Kara Swisher and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. While the general theme pertained to the scrutiny big city mayors are facing currently, the identity politics line of thought is what came to pass in this exchange with Lightfoot.
The headlines as expressed by Fox News are that Lori Lightfoot would discriminate which reporters she'd talk to on the basis of their skin color. Lightfoot called it a "conversation" that needed to happen "a long time ago" according to The New York Times interview. Despite some pushback from Swisher, the Chicago mayor played up the need for advocacy:
"Here is the bottom line for me, to state the obvious, I'm a Black woman mayor. I'm the mayor of the third-largest city in the country, obviously I have a platform, and it's important to me to advocate on things that I believe are important."At the end of May this year, Lightfoot decided in a controversial move to afford one-on-one interviews only with reporters of color and not with white journalists.














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