The party invitation for Boston’s darker-skinned politicians showed up in their in-box for the annual “Electeds of Color” gathering at City Hall, but the same invitation mistakenly showed up in the in-boxes of lighter-skinned politicians, too.
On the Boston City Council, its members include six minorities and seven white members.
Just 15 minutes after the invitation went out, the city employee apologized – not for excluding the white city councils but for including them by mistake, according to The New York Post.
“I did send that to everyone by accident, and I apologize if my email may have offended or came across as so,” Denise DosSantos, Boston’s black director of City Council Relations, wrote to all involved, both white and otherwise.
An explanation and a semi-apology fell to the city’s first-term Asian mayor, Michelle Wu. She also did not apologize for the minority-only party, which she said is an annual event that is no secret in city government. There are other parties planned for everyone, she told the media.
Further confusing the controversy is Conor Pewarski, Mayor Wu's white husband. It is unclear in the Mayor's party invitation if white spouses were invited or if Pewarski would be a party crasher by attending.
Conservative activist Brian Camenker first founded the now-national group Mass Resistance to expose and fight the Left in his native Massachusetts. After doing battle with them for years, he says the “tolerant” Democrats repeatedly expose themselves as the real racists.
“The strange thing is, to them, doing something that idiotic doesn't even cross their minds,” he says. “But to normal people they think what a bunch of hypocrites, and how idiotic is it to only invite people to a party based on race.”
Mayor Wu has run into trouble with email in the recent past. Back in July, AFN reported an email from the Mayor's office ordered a Boston police captain to keep an eye on her political opponents, 15 people in all. That email became public only because of an open records request by the conservative group she wanted police to monitor.
Like the minority-only Christmas party, she shrugged off the email as no big deal.
Wu promised 'Boston for everyone'
Wu, a former city council member, had promised a "Boston for everyone" when she ran for mayor. She called herself a "progressive" who promised the city "racial, economic and climate justice."
Boston’s city government is run entirely by liberals, Camenker points out, so the city is segregating white liberals from minority liberals according to skin color.
By excluding white liberal city council members, Mayor Wu disinvited Councilwoman Liz Breadon, who is an immigrant and a lesbian; and Councilwoman Erin Murphy, a former Boston public school teacher. Murphy's parents and grandparents were neighborhood activists.
Imagine the outrage, Camenker says, if the seven white city council members held an exclusive party just for them.
"The media would fry them,” he predicts. “I think it would be a lot of fun to just see them do it, but they wouldn't do it because they're too wimpy.”
