'Progressive' racism is still racism, and it should not be tolerated or shrugged off

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s latest decision is racist. There is no other way to describe it. And “progressive” racism like that must be stamped out the same as any other strain.

Lightfoot has decided she will discriminate against reporters based on skin color, only offering one-on-one interviews to nonwhite reporters. Her justification is that Chicago media outlets are too white, and so “in order to progress, we must change.”