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If you voted/campaigned for #LoriLightfoot, uplifted the promises she made during her campaign, or tried to convince others she'd be a progressive mayor, you should be the most vocal in calling out the violence she is unleashing on #Chicago's Black/brown communities and youth.
We all make mistakes/miscalculations. We are all wrong sometimes. We are culpable when we refuse to own our mistakes, admit we were wrong, and take responsibility for the consequences of our miscalculations. If you thought #LoriLightfoot was a progressive, you made a mistake.
There are people who owe Black/brown Chicagoans an apology, who used our identities as political bait, who are silent. There are people who should be on the front lines holding #LoriLightfoot accountable to her promises who are passively watching from the sidelines.
Electoral politics are equally about demanding accountability from the people for whom we vote--which regularly requires protest and direct action. If you voted for #LoriLightfoot as a progressive and aren't protecting protesters from her violence, you're shirking your own duty.
If you are #LoriLightfoot's constituent--wealthy, white, property-owning, business-connected--the blood of protesters, of victims of police violence and environmental racism, is on your hands. This mayor is your responsibility. Demand she #DefundCPD and stop attacking youth.
P.S. I'm including non-Chicagoans in this message, because some of you got excited about a lesbian mayor and uplifted #LoriLightfoot's platform from afar without knowing/paying attention to her abysmal history locally. That was a mistake. Own it please. #DefundCPD
