It’s hilarious watching the Boston Globe scratching its head and wondering why Boston isn’t going to have an elected black mayor. How did Boston miss its moment to elect a Black leader? – The Boston Globe. Of course they and the blacks blame it on whites not supporting a black candidate. They ignore a few simple facts on that score. First, only about 21% of the eligible voters voted. We’re sure there are a ton of black voters in that 79% who didn’t vote, but they apparently didn’t consider it important enough to vote, never mind have a black mayor. Hey, if the blacks as a group don’t care enough to have a black mayor and get their act together to make it happen, why the heck should anyone else?
Second, there were 2 black candidates who collectively received way more votes than either Wu or Essaibi George. So, again, if it isn’t important enough to the blacks for them to have a black mayor and all get behind one so the vote doesn’t get split, why should anyone else care (other than the progressive woke morons in the Globe editorial room). There was an incumbent black mayor, and they still didn’t support her???
Third, there’s been a black acting mayor exercising the power of the incumbency for the last 9 months or so, and she got whipped. Every chance she had to make a good campaign decision she made a bad one. Rose garden strategies don’t work for acting mayors with no record as mayor; that only works when you have a decent record to rely on, which in this case was missing. To be fair, she was handed a s— sandwich almost immediately after being installed from the Police Commissioner dust-up, and she doesn’t appear to have recovered from that being colossally mishandled by everyone, not just her.
Moreover, the black population in Boston has been decreasing and blacks flee the city for various reasons, the Globe of course blaming it on gentrification by whites that is driving black residents out of neighborhoods they used to dominate. Boston is losing Black population, new census data show, even as it could soon elect its first Black mayor – The Boston Globe. So this debacle, as the Globe posits it, should really be less of an issue than it ever was, not a bigger issue. An ebbing black population coupled with a flourishing Asian and Hispanic population, would seem to result in a reduction in black voting power and commensurate increases in the voting power of the others. Therefore the fact that two other menstruatingpersons of color, but non-black, are the two finalists shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.
Fifth and finally, maybe, just maybe, the Boston voting population decided to go with merit rather than race. Pretty novel concept these days, isn’t it?