The Issue: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s non-white “electeds of color” only Christmas party.
Could some of the Boston city councilors be so utterly oblivious and tone-deaf as to support the idea of hosting a Christmas party exclusively for “electeds of color” (“Ho Ho No To Whites,” Dec. 14)?
Even Mayor Michelle Wu appears unaware of the optics of holding a race-restricted party in a public building. I could not imagine a mayor of an American city hosting a Christmas party exclusively for white elected officials. This entire situation seems blatantly racist to me.
I think the staffer who accidentally sent the email to everyone apologized only because it wasn’t intended for the offices of white city councilors. That, to me, was a lamentable apology.
At least City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson was honest in her seemingly racist public reaction: She thought there was nothing wrong with a segregated Christmas party hosted by the mayor, and the mayor agreed with her.
Are they all that out of the loop when it comes to initiating and supporting the idea that it is acceptable to segregate city councilors by race for a Christmas party?
Sal Giarratini
Boston, Mass.
I lived in Alabama during the tenure of its segregationist governor, George Wallace.
Wu is as much a racist as Wallace, which I believe earns her the title of Boston’s “ ‘Separate But Equal’ Mayor.”
Wallace’s racist policies were a setback for Alabama. Likewise, Wu’s misguided support of segregation, as shown through her Christmas party, could potentially set back Boston and the entire state of Massachusetts.
Wallace and the policies of segregation are relics of a bygone past. Wu, however, may soon find herself consigned alongside them thanks to her racist policies and behavior.
James Patterson
Washington D.C.
The unhappy mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, does not want white City Council members to attend the City Hall holiday party.
This situation echoes the distressing times of the old segregated South. Fast forward to the present, and segregation is happening at the highest level in the liberal, Democratic, northern city of Boston.
This should be a holiday season where Wu celebrates joyfulness and togetherness instead of bitterness, rejection and segregation.
Kevin O’Leary
Kew Gardens
Can Boston’s Mayor Michelle “Whites Go Home” Wu truly be that clueless?
She expresses regret that her office made “an honest mistake” in accidentally sending out invitations to white city councilors for a holiday party intended solely for “electeds of color.” However, she doesn’t seem to have an issue with promoting and hosting a racially segregated social event in the first place.
With leadership like this, who needs enemies?
Charles Winokoor
Fall River, Mass.
After reading Thursday’s article, I tried to imagine what would happen if Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt or another white mayor had also hosted a party for elected officials but only invited whites.
I can envision the pitchforks, torches and screeching over bullhorns. For Boston’s Asian mayor to try and defend herself by saying that it’s OK, as white people were not supposed to know, is despicable.
In the United States today, it seems that discrimination against whites is not only allowed but encouraged.
Chris Plate
Waterloo
Wu apologized for trying to host an “electeds of color” only party — but only for the invitation accidentally getting sent to to white electeds. One would reasonably assume she would have apologized for her discriminatory actions instead.
If Boston’s mayor was a white male who organized a “whites only” party, he would have been called a racist and correctly pressured to resign.
All that Wu has demonstrated with her actions is that racism is now available in different races.
Ellie Galiano
Asbury Park
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