This is unfair. She's always been a strong advocate for her black constituents in Boston and the black community at large. At a recent breakfast honoring the memory of MLK, she caught flack from local cacs for talking about the specific hardship still felt by black people over half a century after his assassination. When she ended her speech and ceded the mic to Governor Charlie Baker, he called her address a rant, apologizing a day later after coming under criticism for invoking the stereotype of an "angry black woman" in response to a sitting Congresswoman who used her appearance at an annual celebration of MLK to cast light on the incomplete state of his fight for justice.
