Nothing’s wrong with a black mayor boasting of hiring blacks for senior positions in his administration in order to look out for the interests of “our people.”
After all, civil rights laws are on the books only to protect “minority groups.” Non-minorities being the victims of discrimination?
That is the apparent position of New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro. She was part of Tuesday’s CNN This Morning panel reacting to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s comments on his hires, and the ensuing DOJ investigation into them.
Panelist Michael Warren of The Dispatch said: “I think the mayor shouldn’t be talking about it sort of so casually . . .It’s probably not a good way for the chief executive of the city to be talking about hiring practices in that way.”
Garcia-Navarro plaintively injected, “Why not?”
Garcia-Navarro continued:
“Part of the…