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 sort of flim flammers and race grifters who verify the proper packing containers.
I imply, has Gov. Maura Healey ever stuffed the august positions in her administration just lately vacated by Monica Tibbits-Nutt and LaMar Cook dinner?
At Metropolis Corridor, Idowu hung onto his phony-baloney job for months after final yr’s scandal involving two different range 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 Lodge after plying the Muslim girl 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 Folks.
Ironic, although, that Idowu can be concerned in such a tawdry affair, contemplating that he claims to be a great 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.”
No 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 range 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 fingers, I’ve a suggestion for him to go the time.
His esteemed colleague, Monica Cannon-Grant, is being sentenced Jan. 29 for all the normal BLM grifts – submitting false tax returns, submitting no tax returns, defrauding town and the county, and many others.
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, certainly one of them swooned that Segun was “a uncommon particular person revered by activists and institution figures alike.”
In fact 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 not less than somewhat 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 bought 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 wished to be a politician. In 2018, he ran for state rep towards 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 subject 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 serious disadvantage.
In “Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers,” Tom Wolfe wrote about how within the Struggle on Poverty again within the Sixties, all of the race hustlers wished in on the “job coaching” applications. No person wished 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 wished, Wolfe wrote, was to get in on operating the coaching applications.
Quick ahead 50 years. Now, locally, the large 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 subject to succeed. Which might imply… working.
No, a lot simpler to change into… an advocate… for no matter native lames you would discover who nonetheless thought that work was something aside from a four-letter phrase.
Thus Segun turned an advocate, in accordance with his Metropolis Corridor bio. He “suggested initiatives.” He filed complaints. No heavy lifting, which meant he may very well be out consuming 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?”
Based on Mayor Wu, he labored to “improve range” 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 aircraft, da aircraft boss is arriving to take him away. Possibly to the Institute of Politics?
For the quick future, although, Segun doesn’t want a aircraft. 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, in case 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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