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The tea party is out in Boston. The “Electeds of Color Party” is in. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s office sent out an email earlier this week announcing an “Electeds of Color Holiday Party” to the Boston City Council. Seven of the council’s 13 members are white‚ which apparently meant they weren’t welcome at the party. Conservative Boston radio host Howie Carr called it the mayor’s “Wu Klux Klan” party.  Wu‚ who is Asian American‚ sort of apologized‚ but more or less defended the event. The mayor said it was all a misunderstanding. These kinds of parties have been going on for years‚ apparently. “There are many events that are private events for all sorts of groups‚ so we’ve clarified that and look forward to seeing everyone at one of the dozens of opportunities to celebrate the holidays‚” Wu told reporters‚ according to The Associated Press. Wu‚ the daughter of immigrants from Taiwan‚ explained that people of all races could actually attend the festivities after all. How kind of her. “We had individual conversations with everyone so people understand that it was truly just an honest mistake that went out in typing the email field‚” Wu said. And what exactly was that honest mistake? This wasn’t a typo; the language was clear. Is the mistake that the public found out? This seems to be part of a pattern for the Boston mayor. “I’m getting used to dealing with problems that are expensive‚ disruptive‚ and white … I’m talking about snowflakes‚ snowstorms‚ snowflakes!” she said at a St. Patrick’s Day prayer breakfast last year. FLASHBACK: Mayor of Boston @MayorWu at a St Patrick’s Day Breakfast: "I'm getting used to dealing with problems that are expensive‚ disruptive and white" pic.twitter.com/6CSApprDOg— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 15‚ 2023 It hardly needs to be said‚ but if a white mayor had put out a Christmas party invitation saying something like “A White Christmas for Whites‚” the meltdown in response would have triggered a “national conversation.” It would have sparked an endless number of corporate media op-eds about enduring racism in America. No defense or apology would have sufficed. There would have been calls for resignation and possibly even riots in the city. But the Boston mayor’s invitation was treated as just an innocent mistake and maybe not even a mistake. In fact‚ the Boston mayor and members of the City Council basically doubled down. Was this a joke or actually part of a phenomenon that the Left now supports and approves of? One councilor actually spoke about the need for segregated public spaces. “It is not at all divisive‚ it is creating spaces for people and communities and identities with shared experiences to come together‚” said Ruthzee Louijeune‚ councilor at-large‚ according to NBC News. “We are still breaking barriers‚ and it is so important for us to carve out and create that space.” The Left often insists that the legacy of segregation in America is part of our generally racist legacy as a nation and what makes our history exceptionally bad. Their answer to this‚ apparently‚ is more segregation. Entrepreneur Elon Musk was likely referencing this in a post Friday on X‚ his social media platform.  “DEI must DIE‚” Musk wrote‚ referring to so-called diversity‚ equity‚ and inclusion initiatives. “The point was to end discrimination‚ not replace it with different discrimination.” DEI must DIE.The point was to end discrimination‚ not replace it with different discrimination.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15‚ 2023 The woke among us have determined that colorblind institutions and laws are racist. The “only remedy to past discrimination is current discrimination‚” as the venerated high priest of anti-racism‚ Ibram X. Kendi‚ has said. So the Left has adopted a form of racialized Marxism that boils people down to race and divides them into oppressor and oppressed groups. They mean to marginalize—they love that word—anyone who fits into one of the “baddie” categories or simply doesn’t get with the program. Jews are one of the more recent “bad” groups‚ which is why the Left is willing to let vicious antisemites rage out of control on college campuses. Marxism has been racialized and repackaged to consume America and the rest of the West. Segregated spaces have become common on college campuses‚ where separate graduation ceremonies are conducted for different racial categories. This has been going on for years. According to a 2019 report from the National Association of Scholars‚ 125 colleges held segregated graduation ceremonies. This is becoming the norm among our elite. As with most of the awful societal trends plaguing our nation‚ what starts on college campuses doesn’t stay on college campuses. Of course‚ our elites will copy and paste their campus activities onto the government and corporate world. DEI is the moral rot that has destroyed higher education and seeped into almost all aspects of our society. Unfortunately‚ what we’re seeing is the resegregation of America‚ and it’s certainly not by mistake. Our society has been re-racialized by woke fanatics who now hold sway in our country’s most elite institutions. Right now‚ what’s standing in opposition is the good sense of the average American—and civil rights laws. But how long will those things hold up when DEI has become a kind of established ideological religion in this country? We have to take it seriously‚ because the DEI cultists take it seriously and they have enormous power. The ethos needs to be condemned and drained from society like poison from a wound. Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com‚ and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. 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On Friday‚ a Virginia woman whose then six-year-old son shot his first-grade teacher inside a classroom this year was sentenced to two years in prison for felony child neglect. JUST IN: The mom of the 6-year-old boy who brought a gun to school &; shot his teacher has been sentenced to prison. Deja Taylor's son took her gun to school &; shot his teacher Abigail Zwerner back in January. She was lucky to survive. After the shooting‚ the boy bragged to a… pic.twitter.com/KryDMRc2Id — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 15‚ 2023 According to authorities‚ Deja Taylor’s son‚ who has not been identified‚ shot schoolteacher Abigail Zwerner on Jan. 6 at Richneck Elementary in Newport News‚ Virginia‚ with Taylor’s handgun. From Fox News: During a Friday afternoon court hearing‚ Circuit Court Judge Christopher Papile ruled Taylor should serve two years in prison. Taylor was charged with felony child neglect in April‚ and pleaded guilty in August. Taylor faced up to five years in prison‚ but struck a plea deal with prosecutors. However‚ Friday’s state sentence is longer than the six months prosecutors and her defense had recommended in the plea deal‚ and harsher than in state sentencing guidelines. As part of her plea deal‚ prosecutors agreed to drop a misdemeanor count of recklessly storing a firearm. Taylor’s son told authorities he got his mother’s 9mm pistol by climbing onto a drawer to reach the top of a dresser‚ where the firearm was in his mom’s purse. He concealed the weapon in his backpack and then his pocket before shooting Zwerner in front of her first-grade class. Taylor initially told investigators she had secured her gun with a trigger lock‚ but investigators said they never found one. Her sentencing Friday comes a month after Taylor was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for using marijuana while owning a firearm. Her attorneys had argued there were “mitigating circumstances‚” including her postpartum depression and her schizoaffective disorder diagnosis. In court last month‚ one of her attorneys read a statement in which she said she would be remorseful “for the rest of my life.” Zwerner was shot in the left hand and her upper left chest‚ which caused her to break bones and puncture a lung. She rushed her other students out of the classroom before she collapsed in the school office. She has had five surgeries since then and is suing Newport News Public Schools for $40 million‚ claiming administrators ignored warnings that the boy had a gun. She has since left teaching.

After a plea deal that would have gave Hunter Biden a slap on the wrist fell through earlier this year‚ a criminal case where he stands accused of failing to pay over $1 million in taxes‚ illegally possessing a firearm‚ and making false statements to authorities has progressed fairly quickly. Legal analysts and pundits on both sides of the aisle decried the leniency of Hunter’s previous plea deal and have said that his likelihood of being found guilty in the criminal case against him is high. Former MSNBC commentator and National Review writer Noah Rothman went so far as to call Hunter’s case ‘pretty open-and-shut’ on Friday. “We’ve seen now that these charges that are coming out of California against Hunter Biden probably wouldn’t have happened in the absence of that testimony‚” Rothman continued. “So there’s a certain amount of credibility that Mr. Shapley has‚ and I wouldn’t defer to him.” Hunter Biden has administered a slow-acting poison to his father’s political career. All that’s left for Joe Biden to do is to choose how its symptoms manifest. https://t.co/PkDdahvuIX — Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) December 13‚ 2023 Commenting on Hunter Biden’s refusal to testify in front of Congress‚ Rothman said that his attempt to ‘help’ his father actually has the potential to harm him. “Hunter Biden is attempting to help his father‚ who’s facing a congressional investigation for obstructing Congress‚ by refusing to abide by a congressional subpoena. You are not helping‚ Hunter! You are making things a little bit worse‚” Rothman said. “And Hunter Biden is facing charges now that are very easy to convict on. This is a pretty open-and-shut case.”

Police have revealed the cause of death regarding actor Matthew Perry‚ who is best known for his role on the hit television sitcom "Friends."