Is Boston racist? Poll shows city is split — along racial lines

Boston Globe ^ | June 25, 2017 | Jim O'Sullivan

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Bostonians are fairly evenly divided over whether theirs is a racist town, 42 percent saying yes and 45 percent believing it is not, according to a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll. But, perhaps unsurprisingly, views vary dramatically among the races themselves.

Fifty-seven percent of those who identify as black said the city is racist, compared with 37 percent of those who call themselves white. Hispanics fell in the middle, with 44 percent believing their hometown is racist.

[neverevergiveup]

If I were advising Trump, I would tell him to follow up on his outreach to minorities during the campaign. It's not a racial thing, per se. It's about being deluged with a message that tells you if you don't vote for team D, you will be screwed by team R. People believe the rhetoric, and it is reinforced by the agenda-driven media.

[LongWayHome]

Please.....greater Boston has almost no black on white crime compared to other major cities. It’s suburbs are more segregated than most larger cities, which leads to less friction between the races. Like most of the rest of New England, people in greater Boston are stand-offish & clannish...they don’t care for most outsiders whatever the color. I’ve been here all my life & to say that the area is some racist hellhole is just off-the-wall.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

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.

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.

[Radix]

The so very very white Boston Globe put their printing press on the edge of South Boston in Dorchester way back in the day when those areas were fully believed to be destined to forever whiteness.

The endless hypocrisy coming out of that POS rag ought properly not be dismissed or forgotten.

The work in WhiteyVille and reside in the Newton/Brookline/Wellesley area where the white continues to be unstained by the rabble of any hue beyond the rainbow of their fantasy Oz.

I would not ever click on an article or link to that slime site.

[Mears]

“Newton/Brookline/Wellesley “

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Aw,come on——that’s my territory—nice places to live.

[dp0622]

Agreed 9 years, but we can get 40 percent, I think.

If that moron Bush could, anyone could.

And that’s a slam dunk, along with 20 percent black men and now blue collar white men and women on our side again.

[Radix]

A few years back, one of the Celtic Players got tackled on the sidewalk by the Cops in beautiful downtown Wellesley.

His crime?

Banking while Black.

[Radix]

https://theswellesleyreport.com/2015/01/ex-celtic-dee-brown-reflects-on-ugly-wellesley-mistaken-identity-incident-from-25-years-ago/

[Mears]

I remember that incident very well.

Dreadful,but according to what I’ve read it happens a lot in more places than Wellesley.

I honestly don’t know what the answer is-——things seem to be getting worse.

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[9YearLurker]

But not if we enforce our immigration laws and deport 10s of millions of illegals.

And if we don’t, that means the size of the Democrat-favoring Hispanic voting population just grows and grows, pushing us ever closer to having Latin American politics.

[dp0622]

I’m just talking about the LEGALS that are left after the others are gone.

I think we get rid of all of them, and get 40 percent of the LEGAL spanish vote, we win easily.

[9YearLurker]

But I am saying that if we do get rid of the others (and unfortunately it looks like Trump is not on that path), the current legals and their follow ons won’t give the GOP 40% of the vote. They voted more for Bush than for other Republicans because he was pro-illegals.

[Mears]

“Prior to all the subsequent violence, I attended a city wide exam school in the middle of Roxbury, a black neighborhood. I never felt Cambrcoming and going to school. After the 1960’s I would not set foot in that part of town for fear of violence. “

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I grew up in Brighton and in the 40s and 50s routinely went through Central Square,Cambridge-—a black neighborhood. I had to wait for a bus there.

I did that all through my teens and early 20s ,often fairly late at night and never had a problem and never expected a problem.

FYI-—A great read, “Death of a Jewish American Community”——Hillel Levine.

[dp0622]

Gotcha.

What do you think we can pull and still win. 25 percent?

[9YearLurker]

23-30, but it would be worth it not to have the illegals here, let alone having them amnestied and voting.

[RegulatorCountry]

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'm fairly well-versed in history and do have an open mind about it. Some history is less than kind to a given people, though, and sometimes it's even inaccurate, a fact that I know all too well as a southerner.

So, you had family in Southie?

[FreedomPoster]

Bingo. Their school desegregation riots were as bad as anywhere in the country in the early 70s.

[WMarshal]

No, I grew up in SE Montnaa in a coal mining town. I have always thought that busing programs were just a way to punish success, not help the poor kids. If the school funding is equal then the failure of a school is inherent to the school district itself and should be solved locally.

I think a lot of the leftist mentality boils down to “Did you fail your minority students? Good, now brutalize these uppity white kids.” and “Nice school. You have made the rest of us look bad. Let us see what you can do with the savages we have made.”

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

In 2012, Boston fans yelled and tweeted racial slurs at Joel Ward when he scored the overtime goal that knocked the Bruins out of the Playoffs.

In 2014 P. K. Subban was heckled with racial slurs when he scored an overtime winner against the Bruins in the first game of the Montreal/Boston series.

These are just a few examples.

I don’t know if the city is racist, but their hockey fans sure as heck are...