A Mayor’s Race-Based Holiday Party Brings Unapologetic Segregation to Beantown

Segregation in any form, separating people based solely on the color of their skin, is wrong. No ambiguity; no context needed. 

But this kind of repugnant racial divide is still being carried out in 2023 by some of our elected officials. Exhibit A just occurred in Boston, where Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu decided it was a great idea to host an "Elected of Color Holiday Party" that excluded the seven white members of Boston’s 13-member city council. The only reason the public knows about this party is because the white members were accidentally invited, per a follow-up email sent 15 minutes after the original went out. 

“I wanted to apologize for my previous email regarding a Holiday Party for tomorrow,” Wu spokesperson Denise DosSantos wrote in that follow-up email, obtained by NBC-10 Boston. “I did send that to everyone by accident, and I apologize if my email may have offended or came across as so. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.”