Prickwrinkle Defends Racist

Prickwrinkle's butt-sniffers have been all over the blog telling us how racist Lightfoot is going to be. We delete most of it because it's repetitive (see Rule #5), but some goes through. We don't see them defending this though:

• In 1987, legendary Chicago judge R. Eugene Pincham was roundly condemned for warning that “anybody south of Madison Street” who didn’t support re-electing Mayor Harold Washington “should be hung.”
  
  Now, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush is fanning the flames of racial division in a city notorious for it to promote Toni Preckwinkle and describe Lori Lightfoot as a protector of police officers who use excessive force.
  
  Only this time, Preckwinkle is standing firmly behind Rush and refusing to condemn the racially-incendiary language.
  
  “Congressman Rush is a community activist — a civil rights activist — who is expressing his concerns about issues relating to police and community. Those are legitimate concerns in African-American and Latinx communities. … Those concerns are ones I share,” she said.

The Slum Times is showing that they are all in for Lori though:

• Preckwinkle was asked if she agrees with Rush that “the blood of the next young black man or black woman who is killed by the police” would be on the hands of Lightfoot voters if the former police board president is elected mayor.
  
  “Look, Congressman Rush stated his own views and I’ve stated mine,” she said, without answering the question.

No word from either camp on whose hands blood is on for roughly five hundred black-on-black homicides every year, nor for the death of Officer Rivera.