Old white people on the Everett City Council who hate masks demand black councilor with vulnerable father at home spend four hours breathing in their exhalations or quit

Also from the Globe:

DiFlorio, the council president, said she tried to give the new councilor a chance but found Adrien to be always “on the attack.”

“She started in January right out the gate and nothing is ever enough,” said DiFlorio. “If you disagree with her, she goes on Facebook and calls you racist. I’m far from racist.”

Even some of those inclined to root for Adrien privately disagree with her approach, finding it unnecessarily confrontational. They say she alienates city officials by calling them out publicly and won’t collaborate on efforts she can’t lead.

As a case in point, they cite her insistence that council create its own committee on racism; she hoped to chair it. Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria Jr. had just empaneled a similar, citywide advisory board made up entirely of people of color. In fact, Adrien is on it. But when that board met on Tuesday, Adrien didn’t show up. Adrien said she didn’t get the notice, released just two hours earlier. She also fears that an advisory board is toothless and that its mandate to make recommendations in 120 days hardly gives enough time to stamp out systemic racism.

In other words, this doesn't sound like a simple case of "racists don't want black person around". Instead, it sounds like Everett elected someone who doesn't have strong team skills and has a poor temperament. The situation devolved from there.

does not exist. Race is a social construct developed in the 17th century for the purpose of categorizing human beings into superior and inferior groups. The people creating the categories? Northern Europeans who had social and economic interests in creating these false categories and of course putting themselves at the top. Trump, albeit an idiot and mentally depraved man, would have fit in with that mentality. Heck, he does fit that mentality.

The hatred that is represented by the word racism derives in part for our human tendency to see the other as bad but. But the concept also devolves from the fake science of race.

Examples of the absurdity of race: In Louisiana until 1970 anyone who could be defined as1/32 (grand parents of several generations back) was black. No matter how pasty white their skin color.

Jews continue to be considered a race.

A funny albeit still absurd belief deriving from the fake theory race: All black men are well endowed. All Asian men are poorly endowed (would anyone with experience like to respond?)

This is not just stereotyping. This is racial characteristics.

If races were real then we should have a term for the race of tall people and a term for the race of short people.

African-American as a racial group? North African Arabs, South African whites are by definition African-American. There is a ,assive continent of people whose only commonality is that their skin tends to be darker than northern Europeans along with a few other external attributes..

The false science of human races gives false scientific justification to people who insist on categorizing human beings into these categories called race.

There is only one human race.