The most essential query about Mayor Michelle Wu’s no-whites-allowed Christmas occasion on the Parkman House Wednesday evening is clear:
What if the reverse had occurred – what if a white mayor had held a whites-only occasion at a city-owned constructing, after particularly disinviting all of the non-white members of the City Council?
We all know the reply to that query. It would have been the top of the world, a nationwide story for days if not weeks on finish. On the evening of the occasion, there would have been rioting, or looting and violence. Or ought to I say, extra looting and violence than regular.
And if it had been a white Republican mayor who had hosted it, each GOP politician within the nation right down to the candidate for tree warden in Athol would have been requested to denounce it.
But because it was Wu Klux Klan gathering, we had been advised, as at all times, nothing to see right here of us, transfer alongside. An “honest” mistake. Her dim-bulb coat holder, who despatched out the e-mail, apologized “for any confusion this may have confused.”
The confusion was, white individuals had thought that they had one thing known as equal rights, particularly in public lodging.
But so what? Most of state-run media gave it a great leaving-alone.
After all, Michelle Wu was simply making an attempt to place the “party” again into apartheid.
In the twentieth century, there was an expression – Banned in Boston. It was a reference to books.
Now Banned in Boston is again, however the banning isn’t about books. It’s about white individuals.
In 1979 Pope John Paul II got here to Boston and spoke on the Common. Mayor Kevin White (for that was certainly his identify) spent 1000’s in public funds internet hosting posh events for his fat-cat marketing campaign contributors on the Parkman House throughout Beacon Street from the place the Pope was addressing the devoted.
City Councilor Freddy Langone later held hearings on the Parkman House spending, throughout which he requested his well-known spelling-challenged query.
“Who ate at the Parkman House? H-W-O-H Who?” he thundered. “Did the Pope eat at the Parkman House?”
We by no means came upon. But one factor we now know for certain. If the present Pope had proven up on the Parkman House Wednesday evening, he would have turned away on the door.
The Pope is white.
I’ve so many questions on the mayor’s Christmas, er Kwanzaa occasion.
First of all, will the white metropolis councilors get their very own separate-but-equal occasion?
Did the “electeds of color” (EOCs) get pleasure from any parlor video games, like, say, “Pin the Tail on the Honky?”
Did the partygoers sing “White Christmas?” Was it a “white tie” affair?
What type of drinks do you serve at a no-whites occasion? Did the ban prolong to say, chablis, pinot grigio or chardonnay – you realize, white wines? What if a thirsty EOC wished a sure blended drink referred to as a white Russian?
Hard seltzer? Every model was accessible besides… White Claw.
Did Mayor Wu provide her friends that conventional Yuletide beverage – egg nog? Probably not. You know, it’s troublesome to get the right consistency with out whipping up just a few egg… whites. Most doubtless no turkey both – an excessive amount of chicken.
The “EOCs” had been allowed to convey somebody with them. But no whites had been allowed. So what concerning the legal professional common, Andrea Campbell? She’s married to a white man. Ditto Michelle Wu. Did she get to convey Mr. what’s-his-name?
All these EOCs are Democrats. The Democrat occasion has a protracted historical past with this kind of factor – amongst different issues, beginning the Civil War, taking pictures Abraham Lincoln for releasing their slaves, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, Plessy v. Ferguson, lynchings, the Dixiecrats, Woodrow Wilson, huge resistance and so on. and so on.
So did the native Democrat EOCs on the Parkman House commemorate any of their occasion’s historic traditions, maybe by taking part in a loop of their beloved Democrat governor, George C. Wallace, at his inaugural deal with in Alabama in 1963:
“Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever.”
And a cheerful new yr!
Lately Democrats insist that they’re unable to outline what a girl is, as a result of, as one in every of their box-checking judges advised a Senate committee, “I’m not a biologist.” So if Democrats can’t outline what a girl is, how can they presumably outline what constitutes an “elected of color?”
Consider Gigi Coletta, town councilor from East Boston. Her City Hall web site mentions her “Italian and Mexican heritage.”
So did Gigi get an invitation as an EOC, or was she stopped on the entrance door beneath the Democrat occasion’s conventional “one-drop” rule of banning anybody from the festivities who’s not 100%… no matter?
Or did the Wu Klux Klan break up the distinction for Gigi and permit her to attend solely half the occasion?
How about Brighton metropolis councilor Liz Breadon? I do know, she’s white, however she’s from a overseas nation and he or she’s a lesbian. Surely that ought to rely for one thing. Can’t a twofer like Liz be an honorary elected of shade, at the least for one evening?
It’s an odd factor. Michelle Wu says her racist occasion was nothing to be ashamed of. But in the event you take a look at the images of the festive party-goers, they don’t appear very festive.
It appeared like a Mob funeral the place all of the smart guys cowl their faces to certain the cops don’t get any photographs of them.
One girl had her hand over her face as she walked up the steps. Another was bundled up in a hoodie.
There was once a gangster in Boston, Whitey Bulger (for that was certainly his identify). At this time yearly, Whitey used to stuff money into envelopes for all his corrupt law enforcement officials. He would chuckle and say:
“Christmas is for cops and kids.”
And now, all these years later, Christmas in Boston is for cops and youngsters and… no-whites-allowed taxpayer-funded Christmas events.
Sing it, Mayor Wu: “I’m dreaming of a non-white Christmas….”
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Source: www.bostonherald.com”