Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Declares Racism A Public Health Crisis

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared racism a public health crisis and pledged nearly $10 million in COVID-19 federal relief money to fight it. According to a new study by the Chicago Department of Public Health, Black residents in the Windy City have a life expectancy 9 years shorter than non-Black Chicagoans. Mayor Lightfoot joined Jonathan Capehart to discuss.» Subscribe to MSNBC:

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Declares Racism A Public Health Crisis

29 comments

  1. Lightfoot was maskless in a huge crowd celebrating bidens win, refused interviews with non minority journalists, refused national guards help for a city being destroyed by b.l.m riots.

  2. Meaning exactly what? Declare all you want… call it the Mr. Potatohead Scourge for all the difference it’ll make! What are you specifically intending to do about it?

    1. Those toddler tropes are you guys favs, aren’t they?. Mr potato head, Dr Seuss the Republican party just loves those things. Aww, you people are just cunnin’with what you think is actually important.
      Start doing the right things for the people like this intelligent strong woman and maybe you won’t need your voter suppression laws so badly.

  3. How about the applications you fill out, (jobs, hospital forms etc) where by they ask your ethnicity!!
    WHY?!!

    1. Becky, I agree. Does not matter as long as your resume applies to a position available. Listen, I am white and nearing 70 and have never understood. It’s got to be qualifications and nothing more. Good luck to you – you sound like someone who has worked hard to succeed to even post what you did

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  5. Chicago and Illinois have some of the strongest gun laws in America that’s why they have to bring their guns from neighboring states that have some most relaxed gun laws in America get your facts right

    1. Pretty much. Other countries have comparable or stricter gun laws but they don’t have weather reports on shootings because they don’t share borders with 24 hour gun shows.

    2. Even if guns were made illegal in all 50 states, joe and Kamala opened the border up wide open. Guns are easily accessible in Mexico.

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    1. But psychiatrists are like BAND AIDS. How about we do something to PREVENT racism instead so we don’t need so many “psychiatrists” in schools? (BTW, NO schools have psychiatrists. They’re lucky to have a school nurse. Psychiatrists are the ones doling out pills. I think you mean PSYCHOLOGISTS or THERAPISTS)

  7. Chicagoans really screwed the pooch when they elected Lori f*cking lightfoot. It’s plain to see the job has been beyond her for a while.

  8. THE DENIAL OF RACISM
    * The GOP on “Critical Race Theory” — “We don’t teach what we practice.”
    * The GOP on “Voter Suppression” — “Do as I say, not as I do.”

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