“Lori Lightfoot has a problem and it’s interesting for a Black woman to have a Black problem,” one political analyst contends.
But in recent years, Ervin has emerged as one of her closest allies. After Ald. Sophia King announced her bid for mayor, Ervin released a statement warning that “with so many Black candidates in the race and more expected to enter, we run the risk of losing it all.”
One paradegoer, Erica AnnMarie Vassell, said she’d found comfort in the mayor’s words in the scary early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalled an April 2020 news conference in which Lightfoot said she personally drove around neighborhoods scolding people who weren’t social distancing. Johnson said this year’s spike in gas prices has worried her, and she found Wilson’s multiple rounds of gas giveaways impressive. Though Lightfoot
Mayoral candidate and state Rep. Kam Buckner greets attendees during the Fourth of July parade in Chicago's Hyde Park.“The question that’s going to be asked by many people of the Black community is, ‘Where were you?’, not just the last four years, but the four years before that and the four years before that,” he said. “Frankly, I don’t think the mayor has an answer to that that’ll be in line with what my neighbors want to hear.
“I think her pandering to the Black community is going to be seen as just that. In order to run an effective race, you should be appealing to everybody in Chicago,” Sawyer said. “And I’m speaking as someone who’s proudly Black, been active in Black causes all my life, not just recently.”
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