Chicago Teachers Union leader on city lawyer strike comments: ‘Rich white men tell black women … in CPS what to do all the time’ – Chicago Tribune

A CPS lawyer sent a note asking union leaders to spend more time in negotiations and less at rallies prompted got an angry response from the union vice president.
“Rich white men tell black women with children in the Chicago Public Schools what to do all the time," Vice President Stacy Davis Gates said.
She also complained attributed her misspelled name to racism and sexism:
“My name is misspelled. So pay attention to what’s being said here," Davis Gates told the Tribune. “... His name is spelled right. There’s something to this. The city has a legacy, a culture, of putting black women in the position where life is harder, where they have to be silenced, to take the backseat, and this is an element of it.”

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