Congrats to Class of 2022

We urge our readers to scan the photographs in our graduation special for one finds the face of America in those photographs.

The face of Everett is also revealed in all its incredible diversity.

Kids graduating from Everett High School and heading out into the world today remains a classic American photograph of the American Dream at work, at its very best.

A look into the faces of these Everett kids, smiling and seemingly happy, joyous and joined by family and friends during this annual right of passage reveals more about us as a culture than the sickening, random gun violence plaguing the nation.

We won’t bore our readers with platitudinous nothings about the meaning of high school graduation except to say this: the graduation was a terrific high point for many Everett kids, a great number of whom will be heading off to colleges and universities in the fall.

But you don’t need to be heading off to college to succeed in life, in your life, we would tell the graduates.

Every one of them will find their way and their ultimate place in this extraordinary nation called the United States of America.

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EHS Kids Can Change The World

Had it not been for 500 EHS students who protested against racism in front of city hall three weeks ago, Anthony DiPierro might not have resigned.

The disgraced former councilor refused to resign for two months, and the mayor backed DiPierro, which tells a sorry tale about the mayor finding it more important to support his racist cousin than to force him to resign to bring back an ounce of integrity to the city government.

Leaving their classes at EHS, walking out, and forming a long line three and four deep, they marched from the high school, up Broad- way, down to the city hall, where they regrouped chanting “the mayor has to resign.”

What the city council and the school committee failed to do, the EHS students rejected as the way government here should go.

Their march to city hall and their organized protest in front of city hall was an event that had never before happened in the city of Everett.

That most of the kids – at least 80% were people of color and ethnicity – added a special essence to this seminal moment in the city’s history.

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The Federal Investigation

Any way the mayor chooses to look at it, to describe it, to pass it off as nothing he can’t and won’t ultimately slip out of, the Federal investigation announced last week by US Attorney Rachel Rollins is very likely to rock this city government to its core.

It might very well lead to the mayor’s resignation or worse, a battle with the US Attorney he and his many lawyers cannot possibly win.

The US Attorney does not act whimsically.

Rollins is as tough and as sharp as they come.

She will shortly come to understand the lay of the land in this city. Rollins will find that Everett remains locked in the past when it comes to the old boys network that manages the city – the nearly all-white and racist voices that occupy some of the most important positions in city government and who all report to the mayor.

Rollins will also find that not everyone in Everett follows the mayor’s lead.

City hall employees, other than a number of key department heads who take their orders from the mayor or his enforcers, are a solid group of people just trying to do their jobs and to serve the people and to get on with their lives like everyone else.

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The Celtics

Who said winning isn’t everything!

The Celtics reaching the finals for the NBA Championship is not about how the game is played. It is exclusively about winning. The Red Sox now resurgent and coming together represents the same.

It is not about how the game is played.

It is about winning. Or is it?

If the game isn’t played well there is not much of a chance of winning – although playing well and winning are one in the same.

The Celtics going on to compete for the NBA Championship is big medicine in the world of Boston sports.

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From the Publisher

In this difficult day, during this difficult time for the city of Everett, it’s perhaps well to ask what kind of a city this is, and what direction do we wish to move in?

For those of you who are Black people and Brown people, Hispanic and Brazilian — considering the evidence of how you are all treated by the leadership at Everett City Hall, it appears a fact that there are white people who are responsible for perpetuating your second class citizenship in this city.

However, the vast majority of Everett’s white people are seeking justice from city hall the way you are – and in this respect – you are all one, exposed to the racism, the homophobia, the sexual harassment and retaliation of a city hall out of control.

You can be filled with anger, and some of you with hatred, and a desire for revenge, because of how you have been treated by city hall and Everett’s elected public officials.

We can move in that direction as a city filled with hatred toward one another, or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and to overcome that hatred and racism.

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