culture columnist and creator of a beautiful resistance, a multimedia series for the boston globe. and tremain lee, host of the podcast, into america. the reason michelle wu's sons wonder if a man can be mayor is because all of the finalists in the campaign, the strongest running candidates were all women, including two black women, kim janney, earlier before it was narrowed to two candidates, and we have never seen a field like that for mayor of boston before. >> and it really is a beautiful moment, lawrence, and thank you so much for having me. when you describe the boston of your youth and seeing this long line of white irish catholic mayors, and to see what happened last night with michelle wu's election but also the entire field. it really reminds us that many things can be true at once, right, boston has this wild reputation of being one of america's most racist cities,