Chicago's Mayor Lightfoot and I Agree on Something

Surely it is a sign of the End Times. Mayor Lightfoot says the ‘destiny’ of Black Chicagoans is at stake in the 2023 election. But can she win their votes?

Of course we probably don't mean quite the same thing by that statement.

The disintegration of law and order in Chicago - and in the other big cities - is not a problem that is racially blind.

She told the mostly Black crowd at Huddle House on Stony Island Avenue that the city’s first African American mayor, Harold Washington, spent years feuding with a “racist mob in City Council.” When he died in office in 1987, they voted to replace him with Ald. Eugene Sawyer, who they “thought they could control,” but two years later they “dropped him like a bad habit” and “went all in for (Richard M.) Daley,” she said.

I didn't like Daley, though I never lived in Chicago under reign; I did work in the city during that time. During Sawyer's tenure I was not living in Illinois.

But the problems facing Chicago today, are not mostly about garbage pickup and snow removal.

Let's look at HeyJackass! for the 2022 Race of Victim/Assailant breakdown. (HeyJackass! has the best crime statistics for Chicago.)

As of Sunday, 11 September, 78.1 percent of victims of shootings or murder are Black, 17.2 percent are Hispanic, and 4.7 percent are White/Other.

As Lori Lightfoot and her compatriot Kim Foxx, the non-prosecuting attorney for Chicago and Cook County, work to dismantle law and order, the people who are suffering disproportionately are the people Mayor Groot says she is working for. What exactly is she doing?

But then I thought things were bad a couple of decades back and got out of there.

Crime is out of control, the schools are failing, though that is not new, taxes are high, businesses are leaving, which will probably drive taxes even higher.