Say It Ain’t So, Marty

Shame on Mayor Marty Walsh! In an interview with Boston Globe reporter Joshua Miller on Tuesday, he implied that President-elect Donald Trump won last month partly because of racial animus against President Barack Obama. The quote from the Globe story Wednesday is a little muddled, but the implication, sadly, is clear. The Globe story puts the following words from Walsh in the context of Trump voters backing Trump because Obama is black:

Shame on Mayor Marty Walsh! In an interview with Boston Globe reporter Joshua Miller on Tuesday, he implied that President-elect Donald Trump won last month partly because of racial animus against President Barack Obama. The quote from the Globe story Wednesday is a little muddled, but the implication, sadly, is clear. The Globe story puts the following words from Walsh in the context of Trump voters backing Trump because Obama is black:…