The mayor of Boston is under fire for hosting a no-whites-allowed Christmas party and the invitation was accidentally sent to everyone on the Boston City Council by a staffer. Woops!
Here’s more on the scandal from the NY Post:
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is not dreaming of a white Christmas — party, that is.
An invite concerning the Boston mayor’s holiday party, specifically for “Electeds of Color,” was mistakenly sent by an aide to all members of the Boston City Council.
Some 15 minutes later, that aide, Denise DosSantos, who serves as the mayor’s director of City Council relations, blasted up a follow-up email flagging the embarrassing error.
“I wanted to apologize for my previous email regarding a Holiday Party for tomorrow,” DosSantos wrote.
The white councilors were not supposed to receive an invite.
“I did send that to everyone by accident, and I apologize if my email may have offended or came across as so,” the aide added. “Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.”
Boston’s City Council is comprised of six minority and seven white members.
The revelation of the secret “no whites” holiday party drew some backlash and sent social media aflutter.
City Councilor Frank Baker, a white Democrat bashed the move as “unfortunate and divisive,” but stressed it didn’t affect him personally.
“I don’t really get offended too easily,” Baker told the Boston Herald. “To offend me, you’re going to have to do much more than not invite me to a party.”
“I find it unfortunate that with the temperature the way it is, that we would further that division,” Baker said.
It’s absolutely racist for Mayor Michelle Wu to host a no-whites-allowed party like this.
But it’s even worse that some are actually defending it:
Others fended off criticism of the shindig.
Councilor Brian Worrell, a black Democrat who is seemingly poised to become the vice president of the Council next term, argued there wasn’t anything out of the ordinary about the party.
“We make space and spaces for all kinds of specific groups in the city and city government,” Worrell told the Boston Herald.
“This is no different, and the Elected Officials of Color has been around for more than a decade.”
Dude flip the script. Let’s see Wu host a whites-only party and see how that works out. Yeah, that would be totally racist. But a black-only party? Nah.
These people and their double standards. They have them so they can attack what they don’t prefer and excuse what they like.
Take the rape of Israeli women during the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas. All of these women’s groups are quiet because they don’t mind that Hamas raped and murdered Israelis. But let it happen on a college campus to a black woman and they all go berserk.