I spent my college years 'smoking lots of weed': Meet the bragging teachers' union chief Karen Lewis who has brought Chicago schools to a standstill with strike

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Controversial: Chicago union leader Karen Lewis joked about smoking marijuana during a 2011 speech

U.K. DAILY MAIL - The union chief leading 26,000 public school teachers out on strike in Chicago bragged last year about ‘smoking lots of weed’ at college and mocked the lisp of President Barack Obama’s Education Secretary.

Speaking at a North West Teaching for Social Justice conference in Seattle, Washington in October 2011, Karen Lewis, President of the Chicago Teachers Union, pacing up and down a stage, delivered a sarcastic tirade.

‘I am the only black woman in the class of 1974 from Dartmouth College,’ she said. ‘ Woo. People are impressed. Let me tell you, I spent those years smoking lots of weed, self-medicating. Self-medicating, thank you. '

When there was laughter from the crowd, she added: ‘Sounds like you all did too. Oh, I’m sorry there are kids here! I wasn’t supposed to say that right? Too late!’

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