CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is among those speaking about the weekend's unrest.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said these are uncertain times.
"I know this is a time of fear and tremendous anxiety. People are worried about their survival - whether it is COVID-19, job loss, mortgage foreclosures, eviction - compounding these fears is the murder of George Floyd, by the police in Minneapolis," she said.
Preckwinkle said the weekend unrest is the result of years of mistreatment.
"This is a profoundly racist country," she said. "And black and brown people have suffered centuries of discrimination. My own people have endured 250 years of slavery, 100 years of brutal oppression, only in my lifetime, only in my lifetime have black folks across the country been able to vote, sit in the front of the bus, go to unsegregated public schools, dine in hotels across the country."
Preckwinkle also said that George Floyd's murder was especially painful for her, because it took place in her hometown of Minneapolis.