Political commercial uses images from a speech the mayor gave earlier this year.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday denounced a recent television ad from an organization opposing Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s reelection because she said it features racist images and uses a likeness of her in which her skin appears darker than it is.“the ultimate dog whistle being propagated in support” of GOP candidate for governor Darren Bailey, a state senator from Xenia.
The ad uses “the oldest racist tropes that there are” at a time when people need to come together to solve problems facing the city and the rest of the state, she said. In an email Tuesday evening, Proft called Lightfoot’s racism allegation “an insane assertion” from a politician who is trying to deflect attention away from Chicago’s crime issues and denied the ad changed the tone of Lightfoot’s skin.
The ad also warns that because of Pritzker “the lawlessness of Chicago will soon be the law statewide,” a nod to a provision of the 700-page Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today law, or SAFE-T Act, which instituted a host of criminal justice reforms in Illinois.
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