https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/01/lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-election-runoff
"Asked if she was treated unfairly because of her race and gender, Lightfoot said: 'I'm a Black woman in America. Of course.'"
All anyone knows for sure about Lori Lightfoot as a politician is what she says and what she does. We don’t know for sure what she thinks or how she feels or what she believes. Politicians, like many other people, are known for sometimes making false statements about what they think, what they feel, what they believe, what they know, and what they do. Is it really “her experience” that she was “treated unfairly”? We don’t know that. And even if she really, truly, honestly feels that she was treated unfairly, does that mean that she was, in fact, treated unfairly? (If Trump said he was treated unfairly, would you take his word for it?)
Lightfoot claims she was treated unfairly because she is “a Black woman in America.” “Of course” she was treated unfairly, or so she says. If her race and her gender are the only reasons for her to be treated in a way that the reporter characterizes as “unfair,” and if unfair treatment of black women in America is the norm, then wouldn’t it follow that Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, and all other black women in America – brilliant or famous or successful or otherwise – have also been treated unfairly? Would you and I, as non-black members of the American public, have to take their word for it, because, after all, it’s their “experience”?