In May of 2021, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) sparked outrage on the right and among some in the mainstream media when she implemented what could only be described as a racist policy on who she would allow to interview her on the topic of her two-year anniversary as the Windy City’s mayor.
“As @chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews – only to Black or Brown journalists,” NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern, who is white, tweetedIt was at that time.
Lightfoot was unapologetically defensive of her choice to discriminate against black journalists, claiming that Chicago’s press corps was facing a diversity crisis. Judicial Watch, representing the Daily Caller News Foundation sued Lightfoot soon thereafter. They dropped their suit after Lightfoot had reluctantly accepted to end the policy.
Here we are over a year since Lightfoot’s stunt, and another big city mayor – New York City’s Eric Adams – appears to be trying to out-woke the woman many call “America’s Worst Mayor.” Per a new report from Politico, Adams has been requesting photos of prospective city employees to be sent along with their resumes, ostensibly on grounds that he wants to be able to put faces with names:
Nine past and current officials were interviewed to this story. They expressed concern about the fact that staffing decisions are being made based on more race and ethnicity rather than merit. Nearly all said that it had added to the already slow process of hiring.
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The new protocol, described by officials across several agencies, is widely viewed as a measure to diversify the city’s workforce — a priority for the new mayor, whose slate of City Hall deputies predominantly comprises women and people of color.
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“There’s no other way to interpret it,” said a high-ranking city official, who would only speak on the condition of anonymity to talk freely about an internal policy.
The person recalled receiving the instructions verbally, and being told by someone who works in the mayor’s office of appointments that Adams wanted agencies to hire people who “reflect the constituencies we serve.”
Just putting aside for a second the fact that asking for photos of potential employees is 100% discriminatory regardless of his “diversity” motivations, a quick check of New York City’s demographics shows that 48 percent of the population is male and nearly 40 percent of the population is white. On that basis alone it’s clear that Adams is already engaging in discriminatory hiring practices considering his “slate of City Hall deputies predominantly comprises women and people of color,” according to the Politico piece. Where are the non POC men if that’s the case?
Adams’ actions may be legal, but hiring someone based upon their physical appearance is offensive. It puts someone’s physical characteristics over their actual abilities and qualifications, and despite what the wokesters in the MSM and on the left tell you, this is actually highly insulting to most people who are not steeped neck-deep in woke dogma.
In any event, though I feel some sympathy for the people who were interviewed for the story on Adams, I won’t cry a single tear for any of them. It doesn’t matter if they are aware, asking the mayor for photos of potential job candidates is not much different to a city or state that implements hiring quotas in favor of women, gays and persons of color. It is not difficult to see that asking them for their pictures makes this more apparent.
You reap what you sow. The unfortunate truth is that NYC citizens who have to communicate with staff for any reason, but are subject to delays and other issues due to staff shortages will end up paying the most.
Flashback: Ron DeSantis Turns Tables on NYC Mayor Eric Adams After ‘Free Speech’ Attack on Florida Backfires
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