Civil rights activist Robert Woodson slammed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and other Democratic mayors across the country for what he said is their poor leadership and failure to quell civil unrest.
“Absolutely not,” Woodson said when asked by Fox News host Tucker Carlson if Lightfoot cares about poor people in her city. “I believe that the salvation of this country … will be the sleeping giant: when low-income blacks wake up and realize that they are being bamboozled and hustled and scammed by people like Lori Lightfoot and others — they are going to realize that they must address the enemy within.”
He added: “The Left derives this moral authority as being of legitimate representatives of the poor.”
Woodson, who has also written commentary articles for the Washington Examiner, pointed out that most of the major cities in the United States are run by Democrats and blamed many of the “inequities” that exist on their leadership.
“What they are doing is falsely claiming that the failures of the last 60 years — most urban centers all over the country have been run by liberal Democrats, many of them veterans of the civil rights movement who moved from civil rights, to run these cities — they also had to spend about $22 trillion on poverty money in the cities, and as a consequence, all of these inequities that they have been talking about have been done on their watch,” he said.
President Trump sent federal law enforcement agents into Chicago this week, which Lightfoot promised she would never allow days earlier, in order to combat a major increase in shootings and murders that rose 80% in June.
