Boston’s ‘Separate But Equal’ Mayor

If you’re throwing a party that Gov. George Wallace would approve of, you might want to think twice. We mean you, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and your “Electeds of Color Holiday Party,” excluding the City Council’s seven white members.

The race-based soirée came to light after an aide accidentally sent an invitation to every member, then had to do some fast dis-inviting. The mayor bizarrely explained: “It is my intention that we can, again, be a city that lives our values and create space for all kinds of communities to come together.”

Gee, Michelle: Judging people by their skin color simply to share some egg nog sure seems like a step away from that vision.

But hey, she’s a progressive, which these days means embracing some deeply regressive views, where being “anti-racist” means obsessing about race, and to heck with all that “content of our character” talk the civilrights movement stood for.

Naturally, this left-driven segregation is booming in academia, not least with separate “black graduations” at colleges (including Harvard and UC-Berkeley) that exclude students of other races.

This year, NYU hosted an anti-racism workshop — for only white public-school parents, supposedly to prevent “harm” to non-whites from hearing the “racist thoughts” of white people.

And it’s sinking into public education: In Illinois, Evanston Township offers highschool math and English courses exclusively for black and Latino students.

The old “separate but equal” crowd claimed it served the cause of social peace; the new one argues it serves social justice — but it’s based on reducing people to their skin color, either way.

Americans are free to do as they like in their own private spaces, but this thinking is beyond toxic and has no place in any public institution: Right or left, it’s every bit as unconstitutional.