NPR: ‘Anti-racist’ activists distraught that Boston elected Asian woman as mayor
Boston scored a twofer this year when it elected Michelle Wu as mayor. She is not only the first woman in the city's history elected to the office, but she will also be Boston's first nonwhite mayor.
And that's not good enough, say "anti-racist" activists quoted this week by NPR. Real racial equality won’t be achieved until a black person takes the job — because Asians apparently don’t count.
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"I got home, and I cried," self-described artist and civil rights activist Danny Rivera told NPR. "I cried my eyes out because I don't know the next time we'll see a black mayor in our city."
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"I mean the data speaks for itself, and it's troubling," former Democratic Massachusetts state Rep. Marie St. Fleur said. "For those of us born or raised in Boston and who lived through some of the darker days, the fact that we blinked at this moment is sadness. At what point in the city of Boston will we be able to vote, and I'm going to be very clear here, for a black person in that corner office?"
And DU claims AL and MS are the racist places ... Sounds like Boston is about to start lynching folks just to keep them from running for office.
What a bunch of losers. Race, race, race, and it better be the RIGHT race, dammit!!!
KC