REDEMPTION, RACE, AND COUNCILLOR
LUKES
Councillor Lukes
Worcester
City Councillor Konstantina Lukes should not return to the City Council of
Worcester. She has a history of arguing against solutions to what is now called
disparate impact racism. There seems to be no redemption for what some
consider her underlying racism.
Councillor
Lukes is a lawyer and knows how to put forward what many consider racist ideas
while seeming to be a Liberal. An
example of this are the magnet schools which were built to integrate Worcester
school students. The liberal cover for opposing magnet schools was neighborhood
schools. The neighborhood schools policy would have continued a separate and
unequal school system.
Recently
Councillor Lukes has attacked immigrants by using the liberal viewpoint that
only people who came to the USA with papers should stay. Of course the issue of
immigration is more complicated, as seen with DACA and asylum seekers. The
impact of a policy of only people with papers entering the USA has a disparately racial.
Ms. Lukes
has taken her lead from the fascist-like Tea Party and other racists. A recent display of disparate impact racism was
her support of William T. Breault who has organized anti-immigrant events,
In the 1960s
Ms. Lukes was in the ACLU of Massachusetts. It seems that she mentions this every time she
attacked Blacklives Matter. When Blacklives Matter demanded more accountability of the police, Councillor Lukes supported a City Council resolution praising
the status quo police policies.
Hands Up Don’t
Shoot 2014
For a time I
thought Ms. Lukes was capable of Redemption and Salvation as she had once
supported a Black Woman for superintendent of schools. However her subsequent
actions including an attack on the City’s affirmative action policies belay
that conclusion.
It is now
reasonable to conclude that Ms. Lukes continuing in the City Councillor would
be more harmful than good.
