The House chair of Massachusetts' Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion said that the stereotype used in the message 'invokes images of the Jim Crow Era.'
NBC10 Boston reached out to the union for comment Tuesday and didn't immediately hear back. The union hadn't acknowledged the messages on its Twitter or Facebook accounts by late Tuesday night.
Williams, the House chair of the Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion, said that the stereotype used in the message -- which NBC10 Boston is not repeating --"invokes images of the Jim Crow Era, more specifically Blackface, where white performers would darken their skin with shoe polish, greasepaint or burnt cork, painting on enlarged lips and other exaggerated features, while wearing tattered clothes to play characters in the minstrel shows of the mid-19th century...
"It is unfortunate that people choose to remain ignorant and feel extremely comfortable taking the liberty of degrading those that don't look like them," said Rep. Russell E. Holmes, D-Boston.
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