Boston tradition of ‘Electeds of Color’ party should end

It was sometime during the mid-1970s — an era when only a handful of female reporters had earned what was considered a plum post reporting politics from the Massachusetts State House.

It was also a time when the political power structure on Beacon Hill was all male — in every sense of that word. And so the tiny band of maybe three or four women reporters weren’t invited to then-Senate President Kevin Harrington’s all-male sail along the scenic North Shore coast.

Exclusion stings — even after all these years.

“You wouldn’t have much fun, anyway,” we females were told. And, after all, the event was a State House tradition — had been going on for years. Why do away with such a fine tradition?