And so farewell Segun A. Idowu, Mayor Michelle Wu’s dodgy $175,692-a-year “Chief of Financial Alternative and Inclusion.”
It’s all the time a disappointment when the chief of inclusion is excluded… from the general public trough.
However most likely not for lengthy. Loads of openings stay within the DEI Industrial Advanced for that particular kind of flim flammers and race grifters who test the correct packing containers.
I imply, has Gov. Maura Healey ever crammed the august positions in her administration not too long ago vacated by Monica Tibbits-Nutt and LaMar Prepare dinner?
At Metropolis Corridor, Idowu hung onto his phony-baloney job for months after final 12 months’s scandal involving two different variety hires, a feminine born in Afghanistan and her Crimson Chinese language-born boyfriend.
It was all about an aborted third-rate romance, low-rent rendezvous. Amongst different issues, it included Idowu renting a weeknight love nest on the Park Plaza Resort after plying the Muslim lady with alcohol.
It resulted in a drunken affray in Chinatown, as racist, misogynist slurs had been hurled at a feminine BPD officer. As soon as once more, a police physique cam got here in very helpful – for the cops, versus the boozed-up Lovely Individuals.
Ironic, although, that Idowu could be concerned in such a tawdry affair, contemplating that he claims to be an excellent household man of types.
In his farewell assertion, Idowu improbably stated he plans to “spend as a lot time as I can with my grandmother, who I’ve been serving to to take care over the past a number of years.”
Not less than when he wasn’t allegedly making an attempt to choose up some Kabul cutie.
After the story broke, the mayor demanded the details. After a very on-the-level “investigation,” her variety rent was “cleared” of all wrongdoing. And it was simply as inevitable that he would get a rocket in his pocket on the primary vacation after her second inauguration.
Now that Segun’s going to have much more time on his arms, I’ve a suggestion for him to move the time.
His esteemed colleague, Monica Cannon-Grant, is being sentenced Jan. 29 for all the standard BLM grifts – submitting false tax returns, submitting no tax returns, defrauding town and the county, and so forth.
Reparations, in different phrases.
Segun and Monica got here up collectively within the DEI rackets. In 2020, they each made the Boston Globe’s Bostonians of the 12 months Record, within the Social Justice Advocates class.
For years, each had been throughout these “Better of” lists in regime-controlled media. In 2022, one among them swooned that Segun was “a uncommon particular person revered by activists and institution figures alike.”
After all he was!
After slobbering over him for thus lengthy, the Globe was assigned to deal with his vacation rub-out at Metropolis Corridor. Naturally the Globe solely talked about the Chinatown incident within the ninth paragraph — skilled courtesy.
The timing was a favor of types to Maura Healey. The governor additionally used Monday to formally announce her reelection plans.
However all of the nattering nabobs of negativism who’d usually have been concentrating on Maura’s catastrophic first time period needed to dedicate a minimum of a bit consideration to recounting one of many Wu Klux Klan’s extra embarrassing moments of 2025.
Segun being whacked on the MLK Jr. vacation was ironic, contemplating that’s how he received his first break within the hackerama.
He was a coat holder for Boston Metropolis Councilor Charles “Chuck” Yancey. Segun’s nickname at Metropolis Corridor was Tattoo, as within the outdated TV collection Fantasy Island. He was Tattoo to Chuck’s Mr. Roarke.
Each January Yancey would let his personal private Tattoo recite King’s well-known “I Have a Dream” speech.
The distinction was, Segun didn’t have a dream, he had a scheme.
He needed to be a politician. In 2018, he ran for state rep in opposition to the traditional honky incumbent from Hyde Park. There have been 5 candidates, however three of them had the type of surname that the brand new Bostonians – blow-in trust-funded hipsters with goatees from the Hamptons – swoon over.
There was Idowu, but in addition a Uy, and a Nzenwa. So many consonants, and just one vote. He completed a distant third in a area of 5. Being a graduate of a Boston highschool didn’t assist him both. It by no means does anymore. The truth is it’s a significant disadvantage.
In “Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers,” Tom Wolfe wrote about how within the Warfare on Poverty again within the Sixties, all of the race hustlers needed in on the “job coaching” packages. No person needed an precise “job” from job coaching, as a result of that may imply you needed to go to work within the morning.
No, what the brothers needed, Wolfe wrote, was to get in on working the coaching packages.
Quick ahead 50 years. Now, locally, the massive hustle was all about… enterprise.
Once more, although, the standard suspects had zero curiosity in truly beginning a enterprise. That may imply that they needed to discover a product or a service to offer, after which compete of their chosen area to succeed. Which might imply… working.
No, a lot simpler to develop into… an advocate… for no matter native lames you can discover who nonetheless thought that work was something aside from a four-letter phrase.
Thus Segun grew to become an advocate, in line with his Metropolis Corridor bio. He “suggested initiatives.” He filed complaints. No heavy lifting, which meant he may very well be out ingesting weeknights. He was, in brief, a Metropolis Corridor hack’s hack, twenty first century woke selection.
And what precisely did Idowu, uh, accomplish, throughout his years of “advocacy?”
In accordance with Mayor Wu, he labored to “improve variety” and “strengthen entrepreneurship.”
How about empowerment? Did he empower anyone, or is that racket left to Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s jailbird husband with the anger-management points?
However now it’s over. For Tattoo, da airplane, da airplane boss is arriving to take him away. Possibly to the Institute of Politics?
For the instant future, although, Segun doesn’t want a airplane. He can simply stroll all the way down to the federal courthouse subsequent Thursday for Monica Cannon-Grant’s sentencing. It’s at 2:30 p.m.
Hey, Segun, should you’re nonetheless on the payroll by then, I’ll wager Mayor Wu will allow you to take a slide early that day.
One other one bites the mud.
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