Some of the ugliest news reports by far from the desegregation and forced busing era came out of Boston. I recall seeing foulmouthed fishwives throwing rocks and debris at passing school buses filled with black children, along with school buses being overturned by mobs, something that put the purportedly racist, SPLC-derided south to shame.
There’s a whole lot of faux moral superiority out of New England. Do as I say, not as I do.
So what you are saying is that the despicable “fishwives” were Deplorable before Deplorable was cool? What mother would want her children put into a forced busing program into failing schools under a “court” order from some black-robed, leftist tyrant? You need to review your history with a more open mind.
“I recall seeing foulmouthed fishwives throwing rocks and debris at passing school buses filled with black children, along with school buses being overturned by mobs, something that put the purportedly racist, SPLC-derided south to shame.”
That’s South Boston. Now it’s filled with Yuppies and Fags.
Bussing was immoral and a terrible thing visited upon the Close-Knit communities around Boston. They are lucky all they did was throw rocks at them.
There’s a whole lot of faux moral superiority out of New England. Do as I say, not as I do.
At the start of the 1960's, Boston's population of blacks was 12 percent. Following the mid 1960's black demonstrations in the south and the subsequent "war on Poverty", the population doubled with mass migration from the South and soon thereafter tripled. The enormous numbers of new blacks and the subsequent violence that followed was not lost on the working class whites.
In the late 1960's Blue Hill Avenue turned into a war zone. Miles of one-story store front businesses were burnt. The large population of Jews fled to safer suburban towns. The blue collar Irish and Italians had no interest in subjecting their children to Beacon Hill's liberal elites' idea of social engineering - putting their children together with angry violent blacks. These are blacks who are made angry by community activists.
Prior to all the subsequent violence, I attended a city wide exam school in the middle of Roxbury, a black neighborhood. I never felt threatened coming and going to school. After the 1960's I would not set foot in that part of town for fear of violence.
The complaint of racism is ignorant of the facts of life.