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Text messages fly on Boston School Committee after chairman’s racist remarks
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As a contentious Boston School Committee meeting on Zoom last month approached midnight, Chair Michael Loconto clicked off his camera, but accidentally left his microphone on. Within seconds, he could be heard mocking the Asian names of some upcoming speakers, remarks that set Twitter aflutter and reverberated around City Hall the next day.
“Was that ML saying Shannana and booboo???” Alexandra Oliver-Davila, vice chair at the time, wrote in a text to member Lorna Rivera obtained by the Globe.
Rivera fired back: “I think he was making fun of the Chinese names! Hot mic!!!”
“That’s what I thought,” Oliver-Davila responded. “He’s gonna get killed.”
Read the full story, and read the text messages.
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