Black LGBTQ Political “Leaders” Such as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, show Contempt for the Black Community
Being the first Black LGBTQ female mayor of Chicago meant nothing tangible for the Black community.
Since becoming Mayor last year, the Black communities’ needs have been ignored at best and responded with blatant contempt at worst.
Beyond Lori Lightfoot’s many misdeeds to the Black community, one of her worst offences was literally taking away resources from an already economically deprived community.
Lightfoot took away guaranteed city contracts from Black businesses and gave them to LGBTQ business owners. Thus, further economically depriving her Black constituents.
This is why those in Intelligent Black Society do not get caught up in a “Blackface in a high place”. It is often the Black LGBTQ politicians who display blatant contempt for their Black constituents, hurting them intentionally or not, at every turn.
We have witnessed after the lynching of George Floyd in Minneapolis, that a number of Black LGBTQ politicians in power who did nothing to curb the growing police violence in that city. The same went for Atlanta, Chicago and other cities with Black “leadership”; the Black community suffering financially through economic deprivation and physically at the hands of race soldiers with no talk of punishment.
This phenomenon is not coincidental, but an unfortunate trait of many Black LGBTQ’s who do not consider themselves Black first, but as “Intersectional.” Meaning they can be more than one thing at a time, “Black and Gay,” Black and Queer”, “Black and Trans,” etc. Their allegiance is not to the Black community, but to other groups in which they identify.
This way of thinking has been detrimental to our community, for the white LGBTQ community has been notoriously anti-Black for decades. They have been the ones gentrifying Black communities and pushing us out economically. The LGBTQ community is white supremacy in drag, literally, with the Lori Lightfoot’s and her ilk doing their bidding.