Thanks for posting this, I read this article in the Sunday Globe. This line is a killer:
“If we go out any farther than that, we might as well go to Ohio.”
They get what they deserve.
A friend my wife knew in high school who turned gay moved to Boston to get OUT of Ohio. Nuff said.
This is the line that caught me;
“I went to primarily white schools growing up,” Cathy Richmond Robinson says. “I think, ‘I did it, my kids can do it.’”
I didn’t realize the family was black until I clicked on the globe article to see their photo. I guess I don’t get this statement?? Will the middle-class white kids in Boston’s public schools be waiting for their children with knives and clubs?
Maybe I’m naive or maybe I’m on a different planet. I realize that racism still exists to this day, but I live in rural Maryland in an area that is mostly white. While my children go to a private school that is predominantly white, I honestly don’t expect race to even be an issue with my kids. I haven’t taught for them to think differently of skin tone than I have of a person’s height or color of their hair.
Certainly the children in Boston’s public school system have been inculcated with diversity and multiculturalism. Won’t these African American children be welcomed and treated as “more special” according to politically correct standards?
Honest,...I really don’t understand the statement? Are these folks unnecessarily holding onto a race card or is there legitimately a problem in Boston’s schools?