Boston Mayor Credits Somali Community for ‘Any Achievement’ in the City

Boston’s far-Left mayor Michelle Wu is once again making headlines this time for claiming that “any achievement” the city has made in jobs, safety, economic development, and education is thanks to the Somali community.

Yes, really.

During a rally for Somali-Americans on Saturday, Wu told the crowd “You cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had in safety, jobs, and economic development, in education, without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up.”

The speech, riddled with virtue signaling and devoid of any specifics, went viral on social media and rightly so. Wu offered zero evidence for her sweeping claim, prompting ridicule across the internet.

One commenter asked, “Can you list those achievements here for everyone?” Another quipped, “Remember when the [Somalis] tossed the tea into the harbor?”

What makes Wu’s praise especially tone-deaf is the massive Somali-led welfare fraud scheme recently exposed in Minnesota. That operation described by federal officials as potentially the largest theft of taxpayer dollars in U.S. history siphoned off billions in fraudulent welfare claims.

“We believe we have only scratched the surface,” said Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller. “This is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history.”

But Wu isn’t backing down. She doubled down on her rhetoric, vowing to use “every attack” as fuel to expand services and empower the community further.

This isn’t leadership it’s identity politics on steroids.

Let’s be clear: no single ethnic group, no matter how large or vocal, is responsible for “any achievement” in a city like Boston, whose contributions to America stretch from the Revolution to biotech innovation. And the Somali community in Boston numbers around 10,000 in a city of nearly 700,000.

Wu’s remarks aren’t just factually absurd they're insulting to every Bostonian, regardless of race, who has contributed to the city’s legacy. From Irish and Italian immigrants to working-class Americans of all backgrounds, the story of Boston’s success is far bigger than one politically favored group.

But this isn’t the first time Michelle Wu has made headlines for extreme rhetoric:

• In 2022, she “joked” about dealing with problems that are “expensive, disruptive, and white” at a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast.

• In June, she appeared to compare ICE agents to neo-Nazis, saying she wasn’t aware of any police departments that routinely wore masks then referencing NSC-131, a known extremist group. DHS officials called the comparison “sickening.”

Boston voters may have thought they were getting a competent progressive. What they got was a race-obsessed ideologue more interested in playing identity politics than uniting her city.

If Wu thinks absurd praise for one ethnic group will distract from her administration’s failures on crime, housing, and public trust, she’s sorely mistaken.

Boston deserves better than this.

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