For Black Boston, the question is simple: when land, capital, and public trust intersect, are we partners in decision-making — or afterthoughts?
That answer will define more than a mayor’s tenure.
It will define whether equity in Boston is real:
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@UNITEHERE26@RonDurk@LizBreadon@Gigi4District1@Airbnb Local 26: too beholding to Wu, to acknowledge the great contributions of Councillor Flynn to the STR cause. I live in Roxbury and Ed's last testimony re: government transparency and accountability, on White Stadium, highlighted he's got the back of communities of color in Boston!
@JamesLucasIT Could be, but commercial cultivation began in Nantucket in 1857, and by the 1950s the island's Milestone Bog was the world's largest contiguous cranberry bog. Today, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation cultivates the island's two commercial cranberry bogs – an area of 232 acres
@MassGovernor Great news! But to become America’s number 1 fishing hub, demanded talents from a diverse America. The Nantucket sleigh ride took many in pursuit to be number 1. Don’t see representation of that effort in the pic.
@MsPackyetti@alwillis Sheer nonsense! Founding docs and institutions intended to achieve “a more perfect union” - hmm, a more pluralistic society, where more folks have a say, not just you and your friends Jon! Jon, you obviously don’t understand the experiment and need to wake up, eh?!
@JonSchweppe Sheer nonsense! Founding docs and institutions intended to achieve “a more perfect union” - hmm, a more pluralistic society, where more folks have a say, not just you and your friends Jon! You obviously don’t understand the experiment and need to wake up, eh?!
@BillForry Yes, but note he’s not getting shut down for all the pablum he’s spewing by anyone present. MLK said: “In the end, we remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Tone deafness and silence to injustice is why Ahmaud Arbery’s story is an endless scene!
Henry Hampton’s film Eyes on the Prize helped bend that long arc of the moral universe towards justice and form a more perfect union! We all own telling that story and legacy because it happened here at his … https://t.co/egH1anR1D4 via @Change