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   Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted the Chicago Teachers Union   
   (CTU) Thursday over a "clearly racist" tweet that depicted her   
   wearing a police uniform while tied up to a chair and being   
   unmasked by white Scobby-Doo cartoon characters.   
      
   The now-deleted image is a play on the children's cartoon where   
   the team would solve a mystery by unmasking a villain in each   
   episode.   
      
   Lightfoot, an African-American, admitted to not having seen the   
   tweet but said it was described to her.   
      
   "If that kind of tweet, which is clearly racist, had been put   
   forward by a right-wing group, we would rightly be denouncing   
   them, and I think our scorn should be no less because it was put   
   out by the CTU,” she said during a news conference. “It’s   
   certainly disappointing when a group that professes to be   
   educators, people who are in our classrooms teaching our young   
   people, would engage in these kinds of really deeply offensive   
   and disappointing tactics."   
      
   Lightfoot and the CTU have been at odds in recent years,   
   according to the Chicago Tribune, which was compounded by an 11-   
   day strike last year that further eroded their relationship.   
      
   In response to the tweet, CTU spokeswoman Chris Geovanis told   
   Fox News that Lightfoot has resisted demands from black   
   activists to defund the Chicago Police Department, remove its   
   officers from Chicago public schools, establish a civilian   
   oversight board to investigate and fire police officers, and   
   make Juneteenth a paid holiday.   
      
   “To every demand this mayor and this administration has offered   
   a resounding ‘no,‘” Geovanis said in a statement. “It’s striking   
   that so many of those outraged over a meme have little to   
   nothing to say about the nullification of those most responsible   
   for this moment."   
      
   "In this time of deep emotional anguish over visceral images of   
   racial hatred, we empathize with our Black brothers and sisters   
   who are triggered by any image that reminds us of the violence   
   perpetrated against us in this land over 400 years and   
   counting," Geovanis added. "Our intent was, as it always has   
   been, to stir the powerful from their slumber and stand   
   steadfast behind those Black people -- and especially young   
   Black leaders -- in their struggle for a new Chicago built on   
   real justice, not failed policies and broken promises."   
      
      
   #CTUINC   
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   “Particularly in communities of color, where students have had   
   their own experiences with police, and at the high-school level,   
   where there are actual police officers in the schools, this is   
   not just history,” Jen Johnson, the chief of staff at the   
   Chicago Teachers Union, said.   
      
      
   #CTUINC   
   @stacydavisgates   
   Miss me with the “racist meme.” Talk about the real issue. The   
   manufacturing of outrage? There’s real real outage abt real   
   racism & injustice.   
      
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   Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates weighed in on the matter,   
   tweeting Wednesday night: “Miss me with the ‘racist meme.' Talk   
   about the real issue. The manufacturing of outrage? There’s real   
   real outrage abt real racism & injustice."   
      
   "The meme is racist. Not the murder. Not the coerced   
   confessions," she said in a subsequent tweet. "Not the unjust   
   decades long prison sentences. Not the abuse. Not the brutality.   
   Not the murder. The meme. Got it."   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-mayor-slams-teachers-union-   
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