Originally Posted by blampron (Post 1950398)

“White people in North America live in a society that is deeply separate and unequal by race, and white people are the beneficiaries of that separation and inequality.” - White Fragility.
Your comment explicitly demonstrates how uncomfortable white people are when they are confronted with the fact that we live in a White supremacist society which explicitly benefits white people. When the roles are reversed, it results in the same outrage people of color have lived with for centuries. Instead of being outraged I would suggest that you step back and examine the cause of your outrage to better understand racism.

Originally Posted by jimmio (Post 1950020)

A few days ago Lori Lightfoot, the black mayor of Chicago announced that she will only be granting interviews with "people of color". She flat-out and proudly said that whites are excluded from talking/interviewing her.
Her racist attitude is alarming as not only a person, but is magnified by the fact that she is the mayor of Chicago.
Imagine being the reporter whose "beat" is Chicago politics? There goes your way of life simply because you're caucasian.
Of course I have to ask that what if this was done by any other white mayor? What if Bill De Blasio, mayor of New York city or Gil Garcetti, mayor of L.A. proclaimed that they won't be interviewed if your a person of color? Oh my God! There would be mass coverage, people calling for their resignation or firing, protests in the streets! But no, it's a black person racially discriminating against a white, that seems to be ok and we just have to sit back and take it.
What bothers me more than this act is that no one seems to care? No major news coverage across the board? A couple of days a few outlets ran with it but with no great urgency to get to the bottom of it?
Maybe the "bottom of it" is that we as white people should just take it and get use to it?
We seem to be doing a stellar job at it so far.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media...or-interviews/

Originally Posted by alwann (Post 1950024)

I don't believe she is exempting anyone from news briefings, just one-on-ones She is making the point that there are darn few reporters of color on the city hall beat. Therefore, she won't be getting many face to face interviews. Remember, our former president used to exclude certain media. It's a prerogative among the politically powerful.

Originally Posted by Ben Franklin (Post 1950065)

I don't listen to much news these days, especially since conglomerates and Australians took over. And, I realize now why this forum supposedly won't allow politics. Emotions always cloud logic.

I did read a variety of news sources, however, once I saw this thread. The woman mayor was trying to promote reporters of color, since there were virtually no black reporters in Chicago. It wasn't the press conferences she was referring to, it was only the one on one interviews, that EVERY politician chooses to do on one to ones. I'm surprised this thread is still up.

Originally Posted by Road-Runner (Post 1950028)

Coverage very much depended on which channel(s) you were watching, but even on Fox this news item just ran together with everything else that's happening in this country right now, the story didn't stand out from the rest.

Originally Posted by cherylncliff (Post 1950428)

Where was the outrage when Desantis only allowed Fox News into a bill signing? Where was the outrage when Trump only did interviews with Fox, Brightbart and OAN?

Originally Posted by blampron (Post 1950398)

“White people in North America live in a society that is deeply separate and unequal by race, and white people are the beneficiaries of that separation and inequality.” - White Fragility.
Your comment explicitly demonstrates how uncomfortable white people are when they are confronted with the fact that we live in a White supremacist society which explicitly benefits white people. When the roles are reversed, it results in the same outrage people of color have lived with for centuries. Instead of being outraged I would suggest that you step back and examine the cause of your outrage to better understand racism.

Originally Posted by jimmio (Post 1950020)

A few days ago Lori Lightfoot, the black mayor of Chicago announced that she will only be granting interviews with "people of color". She flat-out and proudly said that whites are excluded from talking/interviewing her.
Her racist attitude is alarming as not only a person, but is magnified by the fact that she is the mayor of Chicago.
Imagine being the reporter whose "beat" is Chicago politics? There goes your way of life simply because you're caucasian.
Of course I have to ask that what if this was done by any other white mayor? What if Bill De Blasio, mayor of New York city or Gil Garcetti, mayor of L.A. proclaimed that they won't be interviewed if your a person of color? Oh my God! There would be mass coverage, people calling for their resignation or firing, protests in the streets! But no, it's a black person racially discriminating against a white, that seems to be ok and we just have to sit back and take it.
What bothers me more than this act is that no one seems to care? No major news coverage across the board? A couple of days a few outlets ran with it but with no great urgency to get to the bottom of it?
Maybe the "bottom of it" is that we as white people should just take it and get use to it?
We seem to be doing a stellar job at it so far.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media...or-interviews/

Originally Posted by alwann (Post 1950024)

I don't believe she is exempting anyone from news briefings, just one-on-ones She is making the point that there are darn few reporters of color on the city hall beat. Therefore, she won't be getting many face to face interviews. Remember, our former president used to exclude certain media. It's a prerogative among the politically powerful.