On Monday, I told you how Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, blames the city’s crumbling economy, high unemployment, and huge spike of violent crime on “systemic racism,” even though more than 90% of the city’s commandants and bureaucrats are Black.

ED, a reader, wrote in to challenge me: “I don’t believe she said that. Please cite your source.”

Before I could get to that, Mayor Lightfoot took her craziness to a new level. She called a press conference to announce that she was going to spend about $10 million in federal COVID relief on fighting Chicago’s greatest health threat. Yes, you guessed it: systemic racism.

“At almost every point in our city’s history, sadly, racism has taken a devastating toll on the health and well-being of our residents of color, and particularly those who are Black,” Lightfoot said, standing in front of an exhibit honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. “That’s why I am declaring racism as a public health crisis. Because we can no longer allow racism to rob our residents of the opportunity to live and lead full, healthy, and happy lives.”

The $9.6 million will go towards opening up six “Healthy Chicago Equity Zones” that will “create community-based stakeholder coalitions charged with dismantling historical inequities.”

What are the odds that some of her cronies are going to be in on that money?

Meanwhile, gangs in Chicago continue their reign of terror. Since Lightfoot’s press conference, there have been more than 100 shootings, including at least a dozen deaths –innocent men, women, and children – all Black.