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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was caught using foul language with a hot mic, according to The Western Journal.
“You’ve got to be f—-ing kidding me,” Lightfoot said.
“Sorry to disappoint the Twitter trolls, but my comment had nothing to do with anything that was actually going on at City Council. I’ve explained that to Alderman Rodriguez and she understands that,” she said.
“She sent a text saying that her staff brought something to her attention and that was her expression to what her staff brought to her while she was presiding,” Sanchez said.
“I’m going to take her words as the truth and I’m gonna move on.”
“It wasn’t an apology. It was a clarification. … She texted me to clarify that what was said was not said in reference to what I said,” Sanchez said.
Sanchez was saying “the Latino culture struggles a lot with anti-Blackness” and discussed “embracing Blackness in our cultures.”
“In the Puerto Rican culture, there is a feeling of anti-Blackness. And I was talking about the importance of uplifting Blackness in our communities. I talked about sending love and solidarity to Black people in the United States. Feeling the exhaustion of existing while Black in the United States,” Sanchez said.
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“I have no idea what the mayor was thinking. But I would not want to believe that was the case. I don’t think that there is any reason for her to talk that way about any comments that I made today,” she said.
“I’m pretty sure she was probably talking about something else and didn’t mute her microphone. I am pretty confident that there was no reason. I didn’t say anything in my speech that would prompt not only the mayor, but anybody, to say something like that,” she said.
