$175,692 reasons DEI should be DOA

The worst thing in the world that can happen to anybody right now is to get a promotion in the Iranian military.

The second worst thing is to be named by the Boston Globe or its bust-out spin-off Boston Magazine as either “Bostonian of the Year” or one of the “Most Influential Bostonians.”

The way the rap sheets for these worthies are piling up, these honors are like probable cause for the cops to get a search warrant, or at least to get you fired from whatever phony-baloney DEI job you’ve got.

As regime-controlled media in Boston get more and more woke, and less and less relevant, they lard their silly lists with legends-in-their-own-minds like, well, like Segun Idowu, the chief of economic opportunity and inclusion.

Inclusion – that means handouts, set-asides, quotas, etc.

On the City of Boston payroll, this perennial Most Influential Bostonian is listed as Oluwasegun A. Idowu.

His pay is $175,692, and there’s not a lot of heavy lifting, as you can see by the fact that he was out boozing it up and renting hotel rooms… on a weeknight.

Now the latest jammed-up Most Influential Bostonian is currently under investigation in the wake of a disturbing Chinatown scandal. It involves two of Mayor Michelle Wu’s top City Hall naturalized payroll patriots – a woman from Afghanistan and a man from Red China.

According to police reports, Segun apparently was trying to bed the Afghan woman. She ran home drunk to her Chinese boy toy, and a post-midnight affray occurred. Cops had to endure misogynist taunts – you’re shocked, I know.

It seems that Segun Idowu had plied the Muslim woman with multiple cocktails. She apparently forgot what the Koran says about alcohol consumption.

“I just booked a room,” Segun texted her, “would love for you to join me.”

After being arrested, both of Mayor Wu’s new Americans were fired (it’s an election year, after all). Now the woman is claiming she’s been treated unfairly because Wonder Boy Idowu gets treated with kids gloves because he’s, like, one of the Most Influential Bostonians.

Segun began his lackluster career in the hackerama as a coat holder for City Councilor Charles “Don’t Call Me Chuck!” Yancey. He was Yancey’s second aide, known on the fifth floor of City Hall as Tattoo, as in the old Fantasy Island TV show, for the way he followed Yancey around.

In return for Segun’s slobbering loyalty, every January Yancey let him give a public speech – no, not “Da plane, boss, da plane!” but the Martin Luther King Jr. address about how “I Have a Dream.”

For Segun, though, it was more like “I Have a Scheme.” As you can tell from his early appearances on those uber-woke lists.

The first time he seems to have made the Diversity University Honor Roll on was the Globe’s Bostonians of Year List in 2020. He was listed in the Social Justice Advocates category, along with Monica Cannon-Grant.

Remember her? She was the 300-pound race grifter who ran the BLM rackets in Boston. Her corruption and welfare-fraud trial starts in US District Court Oct. 14.

Just before his third-rate romance low-rent rendezvous, Segun had made Boston Mag’s 150 Most Influential Bostonians list yet again. This year he tumbled to number 61.

“You’ll likely find Mayor Michelle Wu,” the failed magazine gushed, “highlighting Idowu’s successes on the campaign trail this year.”

Update: Never mind!

Last year he’d finished 32nd on the list of Most Beautiful People. So as the Globe paid bottom-dollar for the “city mag” recently, he was already falling out of favor.

But Segun’s storied career got me thinking about others who have been singled out.

Let’s go back to Boston Mag’s 2022 list of 100 Most Influential Bostonians.

At number 22 we had Rachael Rollins, following up her win as the Globe’s Bostonian of the Year in 2019.

“Could her next stop be statewide office?” the wretched rag wrote. “Only time will tell.”

Time has told. She was fired as US attorney for egregious corruption. She’s now in exile at Roxbury Community College. Her career highlight came when Monica Cannon-Grant scammed her out of $6000 for her charities – namely, Shake Shack and Bubba Gump’s Shrimp Co.

Number 18 in 2022 was, you guessed it, Segun Idowu, lionized as “a rare individual respected by activists and establishment figures alike.”

But not by a drunk 26-year-old staffer.

Number 21 was Ibram X. Kendi, aka Henry Rogers, of “the Center for Anti-Racist Research at Boston University.” Bye bye, Mr. X. How’d your $50-million “center” work out for BU?

Number 45: Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia, “blunt-speaking Afro-Latina.” Like all of these flim-flammers, she’s a multiple-year winner. She was named “Best City Politician” in 2020.

Her most famous speech came on social media. Who can forget her awe-inspiring words?

“For those who are wondering if I am using drugs, the answer is absolutely not.”

Coming in at number 82 was ex-Sen. Dianne Wilkerson. She was once photographed by the FBI stuffing $100 bills into her bra. Her Bureau of Prisons number is 21757-038. In 2022, the jailbird solon was running some COVID front that “helped lead the demand for more equity.”

Equity = handouts.

She didn’t make the list this year, which it probably went to press before the local judge convened hearings into what he wrote were “allegations of nepotism and self-dealing” by old 21757-038.

This involved a nursing home called the Benjamin – ironic indeed for a woman who went to prison for stuffing Benjamins into her bra. She was hired by the head of the city’s Reparations Commission. You can’t make this stuff up, am I right Segun?

By the way, that 2022 list is hilarious from top to bottom, even by the late magazine’s preposterous standards. Coming in at the final slot, Number 100, was new Pats quarterback Mac Jones.

How’s that august honor working out for you now, Mac? How’s Jacksonville this time of year.

It’s hard to beat that 2022 list, but they tried in 2023. Checking in at number 20 was Rachael Rollins, after desperately trying to rig the Suffolk County district attorney’s race and then lying about it to the Inspector General of the DOJ.

At number 48, the incoming president of Harvard University, Claudine Gay.

She was described as “very resolute and badass.”

Not to mention, a world-class anti-Semite and plagiarist.

Can’t wait for the investigation into Segun’s behavior to be concluded. I assume he’ll survive because… professional courtesy.

All these BS jobs and awards for professional victims. It’s the grift that keeps on grifting.