Posted on 08/14/2018 7:47:32 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Is Boston racist? Plenty of signs point to yes. The city has been called out many times for being home to a number of racist acts, from a Fenway crowd member calling Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones the N-word last summer to comedian Michael Che saying Boston is “the most racist city” he has ever been to. Now, another spotlight is shining on racism in Boston after a Twitter user shared her experience and received a flood of responses telling similar stories.
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“They were the most racist people I had ever met.
They hated everybody: blacks, Jews, Italians, Poles.”
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Who the hell did you spend time with?
I grew up in Boston with MANY Italians,Armenians and Jews. Fewer blacks and Poles.
You were hanging around with the wrong people.
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Whites in the South know how to act with blacks and vice versa. In Boston they segregate themselves.
Just white people who hate others?
Sooooo......she complains of racism and in the same paragraph says “white men are trash”?
Irony alert.
They know two letters of the alphabet:
F 'n A.
So much crap, where do I begin. In 1960, I attend a city wide exam school in Boston. It included black students mixed in with whites. Most blacks attended a local school in their black neighborhood just like whites attended schools in their neighborhoods.
Boston's problems with race really began with Judge Garrity forcing busing on the City. His reasoning was that Blacks in the Roxbury got short changed on education because they were black. So he made blacks get on buses and go to other neighborhoods in Boston. This coupled with a mass migration of angry blacks from the south turned Boston upside down. In no time Blacks were rioting and burning buildings. The Jews fled Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester as the blacks burned the family store front businesses. As usual, the liberals managed to make a mess and refused to take responsibility for it.
Just white people who hate others?
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It works all ways.
-——Boston’s problems with race really began with Judge Garrity forcing busing on the City. His reasoning was that Blacks in the Roxbury got short changed on education because they were black. So he made blacks get on buses and go to other neighborhoods in Boston.-——
Correct. This was illegal social engineering by an activist judge.
My problem is that Boston is never allowed to forget something like the busing crisis that happened 50 YEARS AGO, but the racial incidents in other cities are ignored and aren’t allowed to define a city’s reputation.
Crown Heights, Howard Beach and the fraud Tawana Brawley happened in NY. That and the LA riots are WAY more recent than the Boston busing crisis, but it’s Boston that’s SUPER RACIST, just trust me. The story about some guy taking a dump on Bill Russell’s bed from 60 YEARS AGO still pops up from time to time. Can we give it a rest?
I know it’s reflexively easy on this website to bash Boston because the state is liberal, but it’s really not fair. It’s a slander that Boston has more of a problem with white racists than other places, backed up only by anecdotes, confirmation bias and motivated reasoning.
It had to be the irish. They hate everybody. And everybody hates them.
I grew up in Boston during busing. It was 40 years ago and the city has completely changed. Most of its citizens today grew-up out of town or out of state. I lived on the border of where the neighborhood changed from white to black. I knew from a young age what streets you couldn’t walk down. As many racist acts that were committed by whites I witnessed many more committed by blacks. It was a complicated time. Now I don’t care if a bunch of out of state liberals living in Boston are labeled racist I just want the record to show who they are.
It had to be the Irish, They hate everybody and everyone hates them.
:: In 1960, I attend a city wide exam school in Boston ::
1960, back when the black population understood that an education was the key to their future. Now, getting a good education is acting white.
“There are more racists in Boston than Birmingham.”
I believe that. It irritates me on this forum to see people constantly use Alabama when they want to make a point about racism. I remember when I was growing the controversy we had involving integrating schools. I also distinctly remember people in Boston shooting into school buses when they were integrated. Sure, we had problems, but certainly no worse than the enlightened and educated north east population.
I do agree that the South gets unfairly stereotyped. Places like Chicago are much worse in my experience. However the poster who wrote that he never heard a person from the South use the N word must not have been around in the sixties. I heard it plenty from people from the South in those days.
I’ve traveled the nation throughout my career. Twice to LA so far this year. I have been surprised at some of the things people say but that is not exclusive to LA. No area has the monopoly on ignorant people.
I have worked with plenty good blacks, Koreans, Latinos, Chinese, and whites from LA too.
Over 30 years of travel, I would put LA area near the top. I didn’t just come up with that.
Did you ever go to a white person’s house while a baseball game was playing on the TV, and have the homeowner wave a banana peel when a black player came up to bat? I saw that in a suburb of Chicago.
I’ve traveled for business for nearly forty years. I saw virtually no black union workers during set up at McCormick Place, but a sea of blacks dragged off the street of skid row to sweep the trash from the aisles the night before the show opened. I don’t see any comparison in Los Angeles.
You’re correct that Chicago would be worse. The neighborhoods are so divided and it’s not just blacks and whites.
I’ve spent many hours in McCormick too. The union guys were punks.
Begorra !
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Boo hoo
The North is way more racist than the South.
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