Thursday, March 7, 2019

REDEMPTION, RACE, AND COUNCILLOR LUKES



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.


Protesters again Ms., Lukes antj immigrant policies 2016

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.

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