NPR deletes ‘race obsessed’ tweet over Asian mayor’s victory

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NPR has apologized for “inflicting hurt” with a tweet implying that newly-inaugurated Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s victory was “a disappointment” as she isn’t black.

Wu was sworn in as Boston’s mayor on Tuesday, turning into the primary girl and first non-white particular person to steer town after an unbroken century of white, male mayors. Kim Janey, a black girl, had been filling in as mayor since Marty Walsh was appointed labor secretary by President Joe Biden in March.

For NPR, nevertheless, Wu’s victory was apparently overshadowed by the truth that she defeated three black candidates alongside the way in which. “Whereas many are hailing [Wu’s victory] as a turning level,” the taxpayer-funded information outlet tweeted, “others see it as extra of a disappointment that the three black candidates couldn’t even come shut.”

NPR’s portrayal of the mayoral race as a type of race battle was slated on-line. “Think about the type of worldview one has to suppose this manner – hyper race consciousness, obsession with racial hierarchies, and advantage & equity inversion,” writer Peter Boghossian tweeted. “Now think about a whole channel dedicated to promulgating this ideology. That’s what NPR has develop into.”

NPR deleted the tweet shortly afterwards and apologized. “We understand we do not at all times get issues proper the primary time, and our earlier tweet/headline misrepresented the story,” the information group tweeted. “We deleted the earlier tweet, which was inflicting hurt, and have up to date the story.”

The up to date story nonetheless targeted on the three black candidates who misplaced out to Wu. Main with an image of shedding candidate and incumbent Mayor Kim Janey crying, the article interviewed quite a few voters who complained that Boston’s new mayor received’t have black pores and skin. “I bought house, and I cried,” activist Danny Rivera advised NPR. “I cried my eyes out as a result of I do not know the following time we’ll see a black mayor in our metropolis.”

Nevertheless, Rev. Eugene Rivers, a longtime black group chief, broke with NPR’s tackle the election. “We are able to solely play the race card for thus many events,” Rivers mentioned. “I imply Black management failed to provide success…we failed. Now that is not on white individuals.”

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