Lightfoot’s COVID-19 lockdown policies were as capricious as they were thuggishly enforced, as my friend and colleague Stephen Kruiser noted in today’s Morning Briefing:Īs 2020 bled into 2021, Lightfoot morphed into an odd combination of harsh enforcer of the rule of law that she made up, and an official who loathed law enforcement. Throughout her tenure, the mayor has been blasted for her poor relationship with law enforcement, as the city’s police department lost a significant number of officers in recent years amid the rise in crime. In 2021, homicides in Chicago rose to their highest numbers in 25 years, outpacing other crime-ridden cities like New York City and Los Angeles. No, Chicagoans saw a 52% increase in crime on Lightfoot’s watch, much of it violent. You were a terrible mayor and that’s why 87% of Chicago voters at their first opportunity pulled the lever for someone, anyone else - including five black men (one of whom made the runoff) and one other black woman.Ĭhicago voters didn’t wake up one morning in 2020 and realize, “Oh, no - we elected a black woman? Why did no one tell us? We must resist her at all costs!” With all due respect, Madam Soon-To-Be-Former Mayor, do please shut up. “Certain folks, frankly, don’t support us in leadership roles.” “I am a black woman - let’s not forget,” she told the New Yorker. Lightfoot must have known what was coming on Tuesday because she laid down the race/woman card over the weekend. Related: BREAKING: ‘Shaken’ Lori Lightfoot Is OUT as Chicago Mayor “Perhaps if enough of us share the message, we can still save our dear Earth.Somebody must have swapped out the 2019 Chicago electorate and replaced them with all-new voters for 2023.Īccording to the Daily Mail, when a reporter asked after her concession if she had been treated unfairly because of her race and sex - “Objection, Your Honor - leading the witness!” “SUSTAINED!” - Lightfoot said, “I’m a black woman in America. And then we read the last line from Grandpa in the book. The kids thought long and hard about how to send their letter to Earth. The four-year-old, who admittedly has gone feral in lockdown, astonished us all as he sat dreamily under the apple tree and wrote: “Dear Earth. THE BOSS’ letter reads: “Dear Earth, I’ll love to explore your incredible things, the depths of the deep black ocean. but we can heal you too.” It’s a big message for one so young. “When it rains, is that the Earth’s tears because we’ve hurt her.”Īnd as we reached the final pages of the book THE BOSS’ eyes misted. The Earth whispered as the wind tickled the leaves in the trees and sighed as she swept through the grass.īut then THE BOSS said. “If I write a letter to Earth will she even write back? Can you hear the Earth talking Mum?” The six-year-old, fondly known as THE BOSS said. But above all else, this book made us pause and question things like whether Earth really does feel the cold? It made us. And they’re illustrations to pore over – Clara’s detailed reef and rainforest spreads had us jabbing at the page to spot the animals we knew. ‘Dear Earth’ is spectacularly simple – in the very best way – with gorgeous descriptions that immerse you in an animal stampede or a dusty desert. She plunges beneath the waves to blow bubbles with the whales and stands atop white capped mountains, arms spread wide like the geese soaring above. A love story if you will, where a little girl writes a letter to Earth, celebrating its incredible biomes and the amazing creatures within them. Isabel Otter and Clara Anganuzzi have created an ode to Earth with their book ‘Dear Earth’. With our pencils and pads, we scribbled down a letter. The tulips lazily yawned at the sun way up high up in a cloudless sky, one that was crayon blue, as though a child has drawn it on. A pompous red robin tweeted from the branch above, his little chest puffed out with all the effort. On Earth Day, my little people and I stretched out on a rug under the apple tree its blossom narrowly escaping the last frost.
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