Boston City Councilor Teaches UMass Boston All About Anti-racism
And a little bit about "revolution" and terror apology
Here at UMass Boston we never miss an opportunity to talk about racial equity and restorative justice. To help us further EDUCATE OURSELVES and DO THE WORK, we seek the advice of experts. In April 2023 the McCormack Racial Equity Task Force (MRET) hosted Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson as the 2023 honored and distinguished Black History Month Speaker.
The distinguished Councillor’s talk was aptly titled “Apologizing for Boston’s Role in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Case Study in Restorative Justice and Policy Action”. One is left to wonder if her reparation plan also includes African immigrants like herself, who were not enslaved in North America (she is from Cabo Verde).
The distinguished Councilor is a proud black, Muslim and formerly undocumented immigrant woman, and she never misses an opportunity to remind everyone of these facts, just in case you are one of those sexist, racist, Islamophobic bigots who votes for his/her representatives based on their professional track record and not based on what is really important - their intersecting identities.
This is not the only distinguished thing about the distinguished Councillor. She is also known for her… ehm… colorful rhetoric that upsets even her leftist colleagues. When she is not calling for a revolution for equity, she is busy producing gems like yelling “What the f--- do I have to do in this f---ing council to get respect as a Black woman”, accompanied by slamming her fist at the table; claiming that all white people stick together to prevent people of color from being elected, and saying that talks about “racial equity” are all fake (we actually agree on that). That’s all we were able to understand from her speech, but it may just be our limited understanding of all things equity.
You think that’s bad? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Remember Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian woman who was arrested by Iran’s morality police for not wearing the hijab properly and then died in police custody? The one whose death sparked the “Woman, life, freedom” protests? Those protests that Western “feminists” ignore because they’re too busy queering for Palestine? Well, Councillor Fernandes Anderson chose a unique way to pay her respects: She offered to recognize Amini’s birthday as “Boston’s Hijab day” to “call for the freedom of women's self-expression to cover or not cover their hair, for the women of Iran and across the world”, because what better way is there to celebrate women’s freedom of choice than to walk all over the memory of a woman who died because she did not have that freedom?
You think that’s REALLY bad? Wait, there’s more. Like many of her ilk, Councilor Fernandes Anderson is not a great fan of the state of Israel: She called the October 7 massacre by Hamas a “military operation” and said that “We only talk about (violence against) people with money and influence”. Money and influence… we wonder who she could be referring to?
As a matter of fact, we were not aware of the Councillor and her visit to UMass Boston in April 2023, and we would have probably never known about her if it weren’t for a loyal reader who sent us an image of the following recent tweet, reposted by Fernandes Anderson:
FYI, Ismail Haniyeh was the political leader of Hamas who enjoyed the good life in Qatar after robbing his people of 4 billion dollars in aid money, until a bomb planted in his bedroom caused him to meet his maker during a visit to Tehran in July 2024. It should not be surprising that the distinguished Councilor mourns Haniyeh’s death, given her admiration towards another terrorist freedom fighter:
We are sure there is much more where it came from. Too bad her Twitter account is protected.
For the interest of time and space we’ll spare you her violation of conflict of interest laws and her failure to take the oath of office.
With such an impressive résumé, UMass Boston could benefit a lot from her wisdom. Only the best for us!