Wild video shows Boston Democrat Tania Fernandes Anderson curses at colleagues and pounds on table demanding respect ‘as a black woman’
A Democratic Boston city councilor who wants to “dismantle America’s white background” has been seen in a resurfaced outburst against her colleagues.
Tania Fernandes Anderson has been a controversial presence at City Hall since she was elected in 2021, promising to create “a revolution” for “justice.”
But now even her Liberal colleague has become concerned that she has created an ‘unhealthy’ environment, with one anonymous story Fox news Anderson often swears, yells and screams at public town hall meetings and views her colleagues as racist.
In the resurfaced video from 2023, she is seen slamming the table as she shouts, “What the fuck do I have to do on this damn council to get respect as a black woman?”
At the same meeting, Anderson called the council “depraved” and “stupidly racially divided” as they discussed redistricting.
Tania Fernandes Anderson has been a controversial presence at City Hall since she was elected in 2021, promising to ‘create a revolution’ for ‘justice’
In the resurfaced video from 2023, she is seen slamming the table as she shouts, “What the fuck do I have to do on this damn council to get respect as a black woman?”
“I can’t even call you cowards because despair deserves mercy,” Anderson added of her colleagues.
“Your voices here are sometimes racist… I am here to represent every Black woman and man in the community.”
The anonymous colleague says Anderson has been “hostile, verbally abusive and anti-Semitic.”
The source said that since Oct. 7, Anderson has been so focused on passing resolutions condemning Israel that it is interfering with her ability to do the job.
“People are intimidated by her. And that intimidation does work,” the source told Fox News.
“They said some members would give in to her because ‘nobody wants to'[s] to disagree with Tania because she is unpredictable.’
At one point, Anderson reportedly texted a co-worker saying they needed to “toughen it up.”
She wrote in a text message: “Whatever the problem is, solve it and leave your bad grudges behind.
The source said that since Oct. 7, Anderson has been so focused on passing resolutions condemning Israel that it is interfering with her ability to do the job.
“Just make it harder…I don’t want to always feel like I have to give someone smoke, because when it comes to family, I know we’re all capable of being warriors.”
Anderson has said that she chooses to speak in a specific way because “we need to dismantle the white background [in America] and we need to restructure it to be hospitable.”
Anderson, a migrant from West Africa, previously sparked backlash by refusing to take an oath of office when she was sworn in.
She was ordered to retake the oath of office after footage showed her refusing to say the words or raise her right hand during a swearing-in ceremony.
Anderson did not appear to repeat the oath in a video that has since gone viral on social media after the City Hall ceremony.
Instead, she was seen standing silently, with her hands clasped in front of her, between two fellow council members, who raised their right hands and repeated the oath of office.
Tania Fernandes Anderson (pictured in background center) did not appear to repeat the oath in a video that has since gone viral on social media after the City Hall ceremony
In a statement on her social media Thursday, Anderson said she internalized the oath to herself during the video
In a statement amid the controversy, Anderson Fernandes claimed to have internalized the oath and did not feel the need to say it out loud.
Fernandes Anderson has become the worst perpetrator of missing meetings since her controversial swearing-in, according to meeting minutes seen by the Boston Herald.
In 2023, the Boston Herald said it missed three key votes related to public safety, including a September 13 meeting that resulted in the rejection of three $850,000 grants for the Boston Regional Intelligence Center.
She also missed an Oct. 4 meeting where $3.4 million in grants were approved for the police intelligence division.
Fernandes Anderson missed another police vote on Dec. 13, when the council voted unanimously 12-0 to approve a five-year contract for the city’s largest police union.
That same meeting also reportedly voted 6-6 to block a $13 million counterterrorism grant to fund the Boston metro region.