If you are surprised at Lightfoot then you haven't been paying attention. She's not about "equal opportunity." She's wedded to "equity," which is the rationale used by the left to use government to reward some and punish others on the basis of race. It is immoral and cancerous. You can dress it up in fancy academic talk about critical race theory and identity politics, but when you cut out the fat and get down to the bone, you're left with one word: racism. She's isolated, politically desperate, with Chicago violence and other issues beyond her control, with a City Council that no longer respects her, and she is frantic to find a political base as she approaches a decision to run for a second term. And so, like other unscrupulous political actors before her, she plays the race card as a last refuge.