Boston City Hall roiled by email party invitation for ‘electeds of color’ sent to all

Boston Herald ^ | December 12, 2023 at 11:43 p.m. | GAYLA CAWLEY

[V_TWIN]

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NEWSPOLITICS Boston City Hall roiled by email party invitation for ‘electeds of color’ sent to all Mayor Michelle Wu. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald) Mayor Michelle Wu. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)

By GAYLA CAWLEY | gcawley@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald PUBLISHED: December 12, 2023 at 8:27 p.m. | UPDATED: December 12, 2023 at 11:43 p.m.

A Wu administration official, on behalf of the mayor, mistakenly sent all Boston city councilors an email Tuesday inviting them to a holiday party that was meant exclusively for “electeds of color,” prompting an apology and mixed reactions.

Denise DosSantos, the mayor’s director of City Council relations, told the body’s “honorable members” that, “on behalf of Mayor Michelle Wu,” she was cordially inviting each of them “and a guest to the Electeds of Color Holiday Party on Wednesday, Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Parkman House, 33 Beacon St.”

[bk1000]

“People of color” is crap.
Call them colored people and they flip out.
What is the difference, really? It seems to change about every decade or so.
What do they want to be called now?

[Wallace T.]

Level of hypocrisy in this phrase persons of color is off the charts. For one thing, some Northeast Asians are as fair skinned as Irish or English people. In another matter, the term Hispanic can also include fully white people with most of their ancestry from Spain or elsewhere in Europe.

The whole concept of dividing the population into white versus non-white is a Marxist in origin. The purpose is to divide the American people and set one group against another. In fact the very term racism was first coined by Leon Trotsky, the the number two man in the Communist government of Vladimir Lenin.

[Red Badger]

Might as well have said:

No Honkeys..................

[MrRelevant]

This is awesome. Once you think these clowns cant erode their credibility any further along comes Mayor Wu.

[V_TWIN]

I thought they called us cracka’s now 🤔

[Red Badger]

Hard to keep up with the latest epithets!...................

[V_TWIN]

“What do they want to be called now?”

If truth be told I suspect a lot of blacks want to be reffered to as MASTER......at least by White folks anyway

[logi_cal869]

“Identifying as colored” that day...