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| Harold Washington's 1987 victory speech at Navy Pier. |
Although I rarely agree with his take on Chicago politics, I have generally found
Greg Hinz to be a knowledgeable, dispassionate and relatively sane pro-business commentator. That was, until he started writing about a possible
Karen Lewisrun for mayor. There's something about a Karen Lewis campaign for mayor that pushes Crain's main corporate blogger over the edge.
No sooner had she hinted that she was "seriously considering" taking on Rahm, then Hinz jumped out with a
patronizing, borderline racist column, warning Lewis to rethink the prospect. In that post, Hinz portrayed Lewis as the stereotypical angry black woman who "needs to dial down her public persona."
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| Will Karen be standing alone on those bus stops? |
In
today's column, Hinz outdoes himself, debasing Karen's supporters and offering her some strange advice (coming from him at least). Instead of telling her to "tone it down", this time around Hinz asks Karen to
"be more like Harold" and tell her
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Greg Hinz has more sage advice for Karen Lewis. Really?:
