Perception is not reality. Just because some believe the town is racist, does not mean it is so.
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.
I lived in Boston for 7 years, running community programs. This is by far the most racist city in the US. Hatred of blacks by whites has only worsened with the advent of (black/white) Obama. The city seeths with hatred. It is anti-American in every sense. More than any other city, Boston demonstrated the gross immorality of liberalism.