Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell (D) has repeatedly said she believes racism and discrimination are unacceptable. However, it appears that UCLA graduates may be able to make an exception.
Despite receiving at least four complaints about Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's racially segregated Christmas party on Dec. 13, Mayor Campbell's office says the whole thing is strange. .
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Last month, Dennis Dos Santos, director of city council relations for the mayor's administration, mistakenly sent an email to all Boston City Council members saying they were not allowed to participate in Wu's “Holiday Party for People of Color at Parkman House.” Invited.
Dos Santos followed up about 15 minutes later, apologizing for accidentally sending invitations to seven white Americans in Congress.
“I sent it to you all by mistake. I apologize if my email offended you or was perceived in that way,” Dos Santos wrote. “Sorry for the confusion.”
Outgoing City Councilman Frank Baker was one of the council members who was excluded from the planned guest list because of his complexion.
Said The Boston Herald reported that the decision was “unfortunate and divisive.”
City Councilman Brian Worrell, one of the party attendees, defended the racist event, pointing out that “electing people of color to Congress has been around for over 10 years.”
Despite facing criticism for the party's apparent return to its old ways, the Democratic Party went ahead with its holiday party at Parkman House as scheduled, with Wu in attendance.
“With so many private events for all kinds of groups, we look forward to making that clear and seeing you at one of the dozens of opportunities to celebrate the holiday,” Wu said. Ta.
report Associated Press.
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Boston Herald
intimate that Massachusetts Public Accommodations ActThe provisions allegedly enforced by Campbell could also apply to venues where racially segregated parties are held. After all, Francis' Parkman House is a historic public mansion on Beacon Hill and has been designated as the mayor's official reception hall.
The Accommodations Act states, “Inter alia, race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, deafness, blindness, physical or mental disability, or ancestry.”
When asked by the Herald whether the Non-White Party was breaking the law, Campbell's office responded in the negative “because the Non-White Party was not open to the public.”
The Rev. Eugene Rivers III, a black pastor in Dorchester, said he was not satisfied with the response from Mr. Campbell's office and told the Herald the party was engaged in “clumsy politics, generational politics.” .
“First, if a white politician had held a St. Patty's Day event and said it was only for Irish people, he would have received racist feedback from the City Council and probably every politician of color in the state.” He would have been called a person,” Rivers said. .
“You can't have two political morality books,” Rivers continued. “That's just hypocritical. There's no reason for it.”
The pastor stressed that if Democratic mayors are keen to improve their “street cred,” it shouldn't be at the “sacrifice of white people.”
Although four complaints have been filed against Wu with the Massachusetts AGO, three of which were from outside the state, a spokeswoman for Campbell said her office “has not responded to the incident. There has been no public investigation.”
report Fox News Digital.
Campbell's reluctance to address Wu's anti-white racism highlighted the disconnect between her past rhetoric and its real-world application.
In 2017, Campbell
I have written“Hateful and racist rhetoric has no place in Boston, which proudly celebrates its diversity and is committed to protecting its residents regardless of race, ethnicity, status, gender, or orientation.”
In 2021, she
I felt stressed that “[r]Acism has no place in our communities or in our government. ”
In 2022, she
claimed“As Attorney General, I will not tolerate any form of racism across our commonwealth.”
Campbell too
pledged “Hate and discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated in Massachusetts.”
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