Posted on 09/22/2006 12:11:28 PM PDT by pabianice
D Street was pretty good in the 60s, in spite of the fact that Housing Authority was the prototypical nesting grounds for hacks. There were a lot of good people there.
Not necessarily -- he's probably just a snob.
Poorer people are just more likely to be freer in their expression.
Limitation is limitation. (My nephew went to BLS, but he didn't turn into a snob.)
There weren't any. And the rock-throwing was on both sides.
IIRC, the NE ranks at the bottom for charitable giving.
Really? You mean that those school children were throwing bricks at those white mothers? Who knew?
They were CHILDREN, for Christ's sake!
Yeah sure.
In Boston, Massachusetts, opposition to court-ordered school "busing" turns violent on the opening day of classes. School buses carrying African American children were pelted with eggs, bricks, and bottles, and police in combat gear fought to control angry white protesters besieging the schools.
And I think you have more growing up to do -- until you can stop thinking about people (black, white, rich, poor, address, social status, whatever) as faceless masses and globs and start knowing them and thinking about them as individuals. I was brought up to, but that's me.
Purge Massachuttes....cede the state to canada.
I didn't say it didn't happen. I said it was on both sides. It was in fact a horrible time and set race relations in Boston back about 20 years. It was a mistake -- as even the liberal Boston Globe, champion of busing, admitted some 20 years later: "Gee, maybe it wasn't such a good idea." D'oh.
Seeing how Boston remains to this day the most segregated city in America, your comments are spot on.
Nope, I'm not from Southie but do know quite a few people from there.
You sound like a disgruntled kid who didn't make it into Boston Latin because someone else from Southie outscored you.
To damn an entire group of people because of some disappointment is no way to go through life.
And that's why you chose not to answer many of my points?
While there was a legitimate gripe about busing they took it to a whole other level and many of them justified it with denial and rationalization.
What course would you have suggested?
Not everyone who comes from that area is racist and plenty of people who lived there were hard working folks. But, point out their warts and they circle the wagons.
Thanks. Most people circle the wagons when their neighborhoods and homes and families are attacked. That's where the expression comes from.
The fact is that Southie has its fair share of racist people who also happen to vote democrat every election they can.
Please point me to all those apparently idyllic areas you're familiar without racism or bigotry of any kind. And there's seldom a Republican on the ballot here below the level of governor. The yuppies you're so fond of are far more liberal and more likely to vote Dem at the national level than traditional Southie people.
And, while people in Boston and surrounding areas of Massachusetts like to point at the South as racist they conveniently choose to ignore the rampant racism that has existed throughout the area's history and that still exists to this day.
I don't recall anyone I know in Southie ever mentioning the South. At BU, yes. But not often.
Nobody as close-minded as you has a right to complain.
Do you have a source for this?
Sounds like he's on his way to throwing away a race he has in the bag.
I don't think we can win this barring the D self distructing. This is a good first step!
I stand corrected. According to the Census Bureau, Boston ranks #17. My apologies.
(p. 76 of the pdf file)
Members of the underclass tend to have lots of unpleasant people among them. The unpleasant types tend to poison relations with people of other races.
The Southies were probably behaving quite rationally to the prospect of having youngsters coming among them who are from the underclass of a different race, and who would tend to target "the other" more than "their own"
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