Boston Mayor Michelle Wu remains unapologetic for her decision to host a holiday party on Wednesday at which only “electeds of color” were welcome.

“I am honored to be a part of this group,” she told the media outside Parkman House, the city-owned building where the party was held. “It is a long-standing affinity group that has grown in recent years here in Boston, Massachusetts.”

Wu’s only admission of fault for the racially segregated party was for the fact that her aide, Denise DosSantos, unintentionally invited white members of Boston’s City Council to the party before subsequently uninviting them on account of their race. “It was one of those emails that we’ve all sent at one point or another,” Wu said, smiling.

Frank Baker, a member of city council who was excluded from the party because he is white, voiced his displeasure with Wu’s party. “I do find it divisive, but what are you going to do about it. You don’t want me at a party, I’m not going to come to a party,” Baker told WHDH.

Wu’s failure to recognize the inherent problem with a holiday party that specially excludes people of a certain race is completely in line with how she usually conducts herself. She has long been a radical racial activist who employs the divisive framework that categorizes people as either “oppressors” or “oppressed.”

After the death of George Floyd, Wu, at the time a member of Boston’s City Council and a mayoral candidate, undertook a mission to “demilitarize” the city’s police force in the name of racial justice. This involved taking away the police department’s means of using force. On her mayoral campaign website, Wu stated: “It is all too clear that our city’s public safety structures have not kept all of us safe, particularly our Black residents. We must take concrete steps to dismantle racism in law enforcement by demilitarizing the police, banning weapons like tear gas and rubber bullets and practices like no-knock warrants that endanger our residents of color.” She later asserted, “We don’t need that equipment; we need resources for community-building & peace.”

In 2020, Wu, along with seven other members of Boston’s City Council, signed a letter calling on the city’s then-mayor, Marty Walsh, to decrease the budget for the police force by 10 percent. Walsh’s decision to divert $12 million from the police force’s overtime budget into programs such as mental health services as well as economic development initiatives for minorities wasn’t enough for Wu. “It’s not a real change,” she complained. “Contractually, the city is obligated to pay for every hour of overtime work, no matter what the budget says is the line item for overtime pay.” As a result, Wu refused to vote for the proposed budget.

Wu is also a proponent of inserting racial ideologies into the classroom. During her mayoral campaign, she called for “embedding anti-racism in the fabric of our schools.” She explained that “[o]ur system should be structured and led by anti-racist policies that undermine structural inequities rather than perpetuate them.” (READ MORE from Ellie Gardey: Backlash Against Harvard’s Claudine Gay Is Indictment of ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’)

As mayor, Wu created a “Task Force on Reparations.” The purpose of the task force is to “[p]rovid[e] recommendations to the Mayor for reparative justice solutions for Black residents.” In announcing the task force, Wu said, “[W]e’re grateful to all those who refuse to give up the fight for justice, who have understood and continue to push that there is no statute of limitations on addressing wrongs that we have the ability to make right.”

In addition, Wu’s no-whites-allowed holiday party is not the first time that she has been overtly dismissive of white people. Just this year, Wu joked, “I’m getting used to dealing with problems that are expensive, disruptive, and white.” The remark related to the fact that she had been sued by Italian restaurant owners for requiring exorbitant fees for outdoor dining permits in Boston’s North End, a predominantly white area, but not in regions of the city where the majority is non-white.

Wu’s no-whites party comes at a time of reckoning for the ideology of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” especially in the greater Boston area. The president of Wu’s alma mater, Harvard’s Claudine Gay, has been subject to intense backlash over her refusal to definitely say that calling for genocide against the Jewish community would be against the university’s rules. This has prompted an examination of the school’s racial ideology, which is rooted in critical race theory. Wu’s happy endorsement of racial segregation shows her total devotion to Harvard’s cause — and the perniciousness that can emerge when a university espouses such an ideology.

There’s no word on whether Wu’s husband, who is white, was allowed to come to the party.