All news is local: The Dorchester Reporter tears into Trump’s and Vance’s racist attacks

The Dorchester Reporter has published an impassioned editorial about Donald Trump’s and JD Vance’s racist, fact-free attacks on the Haitian community. The Reporter is one of Boston’s most vibrant neighborhood weeklies; the editorial is signed by publisher and executive editor Bill Forry, who’s Irish American, and his wife, co-publisher Linda Dorcena Forry, who’s Haitian American. They begin:

Once again, and very likely not for the last time, Haitians find themselves in the crosshairs of the Republican propaganda machinery. This time the slurs pivot on a malicious and utterly racist falsehood involving debunked allegations of migrants making meals of stolen pets in Ohio.

And it’s not just the deranged Donald Trump who is advancing the lies. Republican leaders nationally are engaged in a coordinated assault targeting Haitians specifically.

It’s a disgusting display.

The Dorchester Reporter was founded in 1983 by Bill Forry’s parents, Ed and Mary Forry. The Forrys also publish Boston Irish and the Boston Haitian Reporter.