Profiles in Liberal Governance: Kendra Lara
Historic First Black Socialist Woman elected to Boston City Council, Kendra Lara, accused of totaling her car with her seven-year-old son inside, not using child safety seat, while driving unregistered car on suspended license and without insurance.
Lara, 33, totaled the gray 2019 Honda Civic when it crashed through a metal fence, ran over bushes, and slammed into the left side of a home in the Jamaica Plains district.
Her seven-year-old son Zaire was in the car, but was not in a booster seat.
He was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital where he received ‘several stitches’ and is expected to make a full recovery.
Lara has multiple driving offenses on her record, obtained by The Boston Herald.
In 2014 she was accused of not wearing a seatbelt and not obeying a traffic sign. She failed to appear in court in Connecticut, and her license was revoked.
The record also shows a violation in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester in August 2010, for not possessing a vehicle registration.
Lara, born in the Bronx to Dominican immigrants, grew up in Boston and worked as the Director of Radical Philanthropy at the Boston-based organization Resist, founded 50 years ago by Noam Chomsky.
The group is designed to be 'a leading force for racial and economic justice', according to Lara's official biography.
She was elected in November 2021 and took up her seat in January 2022, insisting that the word socialism should not scare people.
'When I'm in conversation with people who are apprehensive about Socialism, I ask them to consider who stands to benefit from maintaining the status quo. Who wins when workers are exploited? Who profits if we can't afford healthcare? Who benefits when housing is unaffordable?' she told Jamaica Plains News in January 2022.
'Socialism benefits the vast majority of us.
'There are a few - those who benefit from the oppression and exploitation of others - that, in a narrow view, stand to lose something in a fair and equal society.
'Unsurprisingly, these are the folks who often get to shape the public narrative.
'Whether through decades-long propaganda campaigns from the US government or political mailers like the ones sent out by my opponent, they've managed to convince our neighbors and us that socialism is a threat. But a threat to what? And to whom?'
Lara can do better than Boston City Council. Her qualifications for office are the same as Ketanji Brown Jackson’s to serve on the Supreme Court and Kamala Harris’s to be VP.
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