Here's one from John Washington:
"Dapper RIP – for those posting ignorant remarks about him being racist – I wonder how many of you actually knew or came into contact with him when you needed help. My Father 20 years ago needed help (my family is black and living in Grove Hall) and The Dap was there, came to our house for dinner and helped my Father and family in many ways. He believed in Family first, you work for a living, and not get handouts because you’re black. Dap is responsible for getting me into college with a letter he wrote for me. All he asked in return is to be an honest man, show respect, and don’t fall into the pitfalls that can await many blacks of the busing era. He also was against busing, as my family was, and believed that you go to school where you live. Rest in Peace Dap you are loved by many."
from TheBrothersBulger.com—go to the link to see videos
http://www.thebrothersbulger.com/Dapper%20O’Neil.htm
“Boston City Councilor Albert Leo “Dapper” O’Neil was no particular friend of the Bulgers, either Whitey or his brother Billy, then the president of the Mass. State Senate. Dapper never attended Billy’s St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in Southie – “who wants to go someplace where you can’t piss for four hours?” he used to say of the crowded affair at the Bayside Club. But when gangster Zip Connolly retired from the FBI in December 1990, Dapper felt he had to be there, with a citation for Zip from the City Council. Of the Dap it could be truly said, he’d attend the opening of an envelope. All the cops were there – feds, state, Boston, prosecutors, etc. – and Dapper was a law ‘n’ order politician. When this video was recorded, the Dap was 70, in his prime. After World War II, he used his GI Bill benefits to attend Dr. Staley’s School of the Spoken Word, where aspiring pols learned how to speak and generally conduct themselves. Among Dr. Staley’s students: John F. Kennedy and James Michael Curley. In these clips, you can see how well the Dap learned. In the first one, particularly, his jokes are un-PC, but his timing is that of a professional stand-up comic, which some of his critics claimed he always was.”