{"id":537234,"date":"2021-05-22T11:58:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T15:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537234"},"modified":"2021-05-22T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T16:35:11","slug":"tulsi-gabbard-calls-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-racist-calls-for-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tulsi-gabbard-calls-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-racist-calls-for-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard Calls Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot &#039;Racist,&#039; Calls for Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftulsi-gabbard-calls-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-racist-calls-for-resignation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537234&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-103.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Democrat presidential candidate&nbsp;and&nbsp;Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii,&nbsp;called out Chicago&#8217;s Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot for being an &#8220;anti-white&#8221; racist by saying she would only speak with &#8220;journalists of color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard wrote in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TulsiGabbard\/status\/1395765298830012422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter post Friday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Mayor Lightfoot&#8217;s blatant anti-white racism is abhorrent. I call upon President [Joe]&nbsp;Biden, [Vice President] Kamala Harris, and other leaders of our county \u2014 of all races \u2014 to join me in calling for Mayor Lightfoot&#8217;s resignation. Our leaders must condemn all racism, including anti-white.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chicago journalist Mary Ann Ahern put out a post on Twitter on May 18, claiming the first-term mayor was only granting one-on-one interviews to &#8220;Black and brown&#8221; journalists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ran to break up the status quo that was failing so many,&#8221; Lightfoot, who is Black, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2021\/05\/20\/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-journalists-interviews\/5192857001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a> story. &#8220;That isn&#8217;t just in City Hall. It&#8217;s a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly white in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI, or Native American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot&#8217;s declaration drew both positive and negative comments from the city&#8217;s press corps.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Tribune City Hall reporter Gregory Pratt&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/554885-tulsi-gabbard-on-chicago-mayors-decision-to-limit-media-interviews-to-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I am a Latino reporter @chicagotribune whose interview request was granted for today. However, I asked the mayor&#8217;s office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled. Politicians don&#8217;t get to choose who covers them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Others supported Lightfoot&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>The TRiiBE, a Chicago-based digital, Black-oriented media platform <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTRiiBE\/status\/1395109830566850562?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted Wednesday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;With this outrage, y&#8217;all are implying that Black and Brown journalists aren&#8217;t capable of asking the hard questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gabbard&#8217;s tweet also drew criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Writer Charolette Clymer responded in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmclymer\/status\/1395778266485694472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There is no such thing as &#8216;anti-white racism.&#8217; There are no systemic or widely cultural barriers for white people that infringe on how we move through the world. This is silly as hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2021\/05\/20\/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-journalists-interviews\/5192857001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a>, a 2018 Pew Research Center analysis found 75% of newsroom employees were white, and reporters of color said they were &#8220;shut out&#8221; getting &#8220;high profile interviews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The press corps is the filter through which much of what we do in government is dissected and explained to the public,&#8221; Lightfoot wrote in a letter to the city&#8217;s press corps. &#8220;And yet despite the many talents and skills of our reporting corps, I fear this arm of our democratic system is on life support. The Chicago media leadership must evolve with the times to be a true reflection of the vibrant, vast diversity of our city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot is no stranger to controversy since taking office in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>She has frequently found herself butting heads on racial inequality issues with organizations like the police, teachers&nbsp;unions, and how officials handled the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Democrat presidential candidate\u00a0and\u00a0Rep. 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