Clarence Page: Chicago politics still ‘ain’t beanbag,’ but try to keep it civil
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a pre-election interview with The New Yorker that, “I am a Black woman, let’s not forget. Certain folks frankly don’t support us in leadership roles.”
Sad, but true. Yet that doesn’t explain why she swept all 50 of the city’s wards a mere four years ago to become the city’s first Black lesbian mayor.
What does explain her earlier victory was her showing up at the right time
