What Is Zac Bears' Ongoing Problem with Race?
An Essay From Joe Viglione, Editor, M.I.C.
FOREWORD:
What the hell was Breanna Lungo-Koehn thinking? As Mayor she should have given a speech at city hall, not joined in with her opponent, John Falco, and prove to be ineffective against attention-seekers Pastor Michael of the New England Baptist Church, Councilor Zac Bears, "Chief People Officer" Neil Osborne and Mr. Falco
Neil Osborne is as much "chief people officer" as Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. was about "community." They were shut down for racism. I shut them down, Neil Osborne was nowhere to be found. Neil Osborne was much too afraid of the racists to go after them. I did it at great personal cost. That's the difference.
In speaking to Wicked Local, Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn, who participated with about 30 or 40 other people in the protest, said they rallied together to show that “Medford is a place where people should feel safe, accepted, and that they belong equally.” Lungo-Koehn added that the message the church is trying to push is unacceptable.
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ISAAC B. 'ZAC' BEARS HAS ISSUES WITH RACE AND HOMOSEXUALITY
HE'D BE BETTER OFF SHUTTING HIS DAMN MOUTH THAN WEAKENING COMMUNITY EFFORTS TO FIGHT BIGOTRY.
As a card carrying member of the homosexual minority community I had to cringe when Zac Bears was out there protesting the New England Baptist Church. Nelson Mandela he is not.
Young Zac doesn't know the struggles of my community. Has he ever been to Stonewall? (I used to play Ms. Pac Man there on trips to New York...Bears would ask the manufacturer to change it to Ms. Zac Man to get his name in the press, without knowing what that room stands for in the homosexual community.)
Rosa Parks and Matthew Shepard must be spinning in their graves at the site of the poorly dressed inexperienced city councilor making a spectacle of himself for votes. Thankfully Zac's not in his pajamas as he allegedly was in Alden Chambers before taking the oath of office. As slovenly as disgraced ex city clerk Edward P. Finn in the wardrobe department.
Plus, the term LGBTQ does not sit well with many in the community, many of our lesbian sisters, many of our bisexual brothers and sisters. It's like saying JBAHN ...Jewish Black Asian Homosexual and Native American.
How disrespectful to lump different groups into and under one umbrella?
But Bears doesn't get how politically incorrect, insensitive and wrong that is for many of us in the alternative lifestyle world.
Lump us together? Use the politically correct term, ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE. But insensitive Isaac Bears just goes by the Our Revolution talking points.
Members of the Our Revolution are calling Somerville Our Revolution racist. The infighting has started, and by taking photo ops with criminal-application-against Adam Knight and John Falco, they are watering down their mission. Which, perhaps, is a good thing for those offended by Our Revolution - which is/are many of us.
HERE IS SOME FAIR USE COPYRIGHT TO GET THE POINT ABOUT BEARS AND HIS ORGANIZATION:
OUR REVOLUTION'S SYSTEMIC RACISM
By Benjamin Echevarria https://www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/109188
The subtle nature of systemic racism was on full display at the recent Our Revolution Somerville (ORS) candidates forums. This organization, which is now a puppet of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Boston chapter, claims to be committed to ending systemic racism, but cannot see their own role in perpetuating white supremacy.
The subtlety of systemic racism can be difficult to spot for the uninformed voter, but glaring when given context. DSA Boston are running three at large candidates and three candidates in wards two, five and seven. All but one of these candidates are white. Their main opponents are all members of the BIPOC community.
COMMENTS ON SOMERVILLE TIMES
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ORS has been very well organized and successful.
But, and not just on the issues brought up here, I don’t think they stand for what most people seem to think they stand for.
I know several people who considered running and decided not to just because they did not want to deal with ORS.
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I’m very disappointed that the larger picture is that there is no center or center-left counterweight to ORS and DSA in Somerville. The result is that local politics is a race to see which candidate ticks off the most far left ideological litmus tests as decided internally by ORS and a race to be the most offended when an assault on that ideology is perceived.
I don’t care if you’re non-binary or BIPOC or whatever. Seriously. Let’s talk about how you’re going to improve transportation for *all* modes and better the city trees and keep the budget under control and keep Union Sq development from descending into a hellish Assembly mess. Maybe even show a shred of respect for property owner rights and admit that we need more parking as the population grows and the median income goes up.
Just ranting. ORS is very bad for Somerville and I’m saddened there is not a hardline progressive alternative.
OUR REVOLUTION'S ZAC BEARS LOOKING FOR VOTES FROM MULTIPLE MINORITY COMMUNITIES WITHOUT THE WORLD EXPERIENCE, THE LIFE EXPERIENCE, TO EVEN KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT
"No Regrets Today" Theme to Gay Pride 1985.
The theme to 1985 Pride was "No Regrets." I got a phone call, was asked to write a song based on the event's theme, and was honored to do so.. It was on cassette for sale at Gay Pride 1985; thirty-six years later it's been remastered by a Grammy-winning producer for Eric Clapton/The Band / The Rolling Stones and shimmers on the new release!
ZACK BEARS KNEW NOTHING OF OUR WORLD IN THE 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
Heck, when I was 31 years of age, about a half a lifetime ago, I was asked to - and wrote - the theme to Boston Pride 1985 (it's on my new album, first time on CD, though the cassettes were available AT Pride '85) ...as stated, per their request. So it is very personal to me when some uneducated con man is using minority issues in search of votes. Who fails to come to the table when a gay slur is uttered at a council meeting and Bears sits there with no outrage, no objection, no nothing.
I'm with Hamlet's Queen Gertrude when it comes to Zac Bears' lack of action "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
I was dealing with uber bigot Pastor Michael when Bears was a toddler, real up front and personal at TV3. What Bears has yet to understand is that one has to be delicate dealing with a powerful monster like Pastor Michael.
What Bears and Falco and Neil Osborne did was play into the discriminatory hands of Pastor Mike.
Osborne re-tweets Dan Kennedy's photo:
Wretched Pastor Michael LIVES for protests...it takes the church from the Satanic netherworld of few parishioners and no community respect to being front page news. Bears and Falco and Osborne gave POWER to the oppressor. Jerks.
You can generalize with Baptist Churches. They generally hate homosexuals. So Bears' marching for my rights I find repugnant.
Zac Bears has no idea of how the community suffered in the 1960s and 1970s and even today. Isaac Bears is insensitive to our community and doesn't even know the parallels between racism and homophobia and antisemitism and other hatred that festers and stands in the way of peace, love and understanding.
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Another Example?
Obnoxious Bears went after a former mayoral candidate calling him a race denier or something. Bears drools whatever comes to mind, knee-jerk reactions being so ineffective, irrational and, yes, bigoted.
"I will not sit still and get a lesson in racism from an individual on the Council," Anthony D'Antonio said later, to which Bears fired back, "I'm tired of listening to people deny racism" before order was called.
http://medfordinformationcentral.blogspot.com/2021/05/isaac-bears-uses-race-carddantonio-vs.html
Tony, thanks for fighting the good fight against Bears. That episode proves my point, Zac Man Pac Man Protests Too Much, methinks! And when his friend Paul Ruseau was called "Ms." Superzac was too busy being Clark Kent to step in and do something about it.
Do as Zac says, not as he does.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks - Wikipedia
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks" is a line from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. It is spoken by Queen Gertrude in response to the insincere overacting of a character in the play within a play created by Prince Hamlet to prove his uncle's guilt in the murder of his father, the King of Denmark. The phrase is used in everyday speech to indicate doubt of someone's sincerity, especially regarding the truth of a strong denial. A common misquotation places methinks first, as in "methinks the lady doth protest too much".
Their entire forum and endorsement process is a sham. ORS is running a slate of candidates and then pretending to hold an open forum where it gives its pre-arranged endorsement to its in-house picks. The whole thing is rotten. That’s why McLaughlin and Clingan ditched them.
And their treatment of Aman was as shoddy as it was predictable. Stephenson’s the real thing when it comes to being a community organizer and it’s got the incumbent shook.