“I take it very seriously what my constituents have sent me to do,” Boseman later added. “Keeping my promises is most important. I guess that’s also my greatest fear.”
“She stood up to bigotry, she stood up to personal attacks and she stood up to meanness,” The Independent quoted Brian Lewis, director of development for Planned Parenthood Health Systems as saying when he introduced Boseman to a gathering then.
Ironically, three years later, Black constituents in Boseman’s district are accusing her of being guilty of exactly those things. Oh dear...
Apparently Boseman's headquarters didn't get the While You Were Out memo issued weeks ago from the Wilmington Journal demanding an audience with the reckless Senator. The question asked was simply, "Do you use the "N-word" when talking about African-Americans?" Yes or no senator, yes or no.
As mentioned before they are lining up to fill her seat over at the Democratic Headquarters. The feeling, even after the big media blitz ad campaign designed to "straighten" out her image, is that she is a weak candidate. A candidate that may jinx the election for some of those on the democratic ticket. I mean come on, 40% of all of her voters were African-American, and she called them a nigger, how do you think that is sitting right now over the kitchen table of some of Wilmington's darker skinned democrats looking at who is representing them and their concerns?
“The veteran community activist, who made it clear that she was only speaking for herself now, vows not only to skip Boseman’s name on the fall ballot again, but tell every other African-American Democrat in New Hanover County she knows, to do the same.
She didn’t do what I felt she should have [done] for my people,” longtime Wilmingtonian Sylvia Colbert told The Wilmington Journal this week. “She hasn’t done anything, as far as I can see.”
Even the State NAACP has words to say...
Boseman’s critics counter, however, that Boseman has been patronizing, at best, to the Black community, responsive instead to the big business interests in New Hanover County.
They say given her current poor record of service to her African-American constituency, it’s hard to see anyone else doing much worse.
“If your present senator had proudly and strongly lifted her fallen colleagues banners and fought for the recommendations of the [1898] Commission—ideas that have deep meaning to Black voters and their white allies in New Hanover—then the question of whether or not she did or didn’t unfortunately used the N-word would, I believe, pale in comparison to her proven commitment to her constituents,” Rev. William Barber of the state NAACP wrote in his June 30 missive to The Journal regarding Sen. Boseman’s disconnect with her Black constituents.
“Voters are human. We understand our representatives are human too. But when their commitment to our agenda is questionable, we tend to judge our servants by their utterances.”
I encourage each of you to go out and buy the latest edition of the Wilmington Journal.
