[DoodleBob]

And as my good FRiend noted to me recently, this part of the US played prominently in a grotesque saga in 1991 where a minority private elementary school was shut down by white liberals. Utterly despicable.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yup,the good old "Commonwealth Day School",a school whose student body was largely black and had the audacity to move their facilities to the richest,whitest,most exclusive neighborhood of Cambridge...a neighborhood populated largely by Harvard's top administrators and senior faculty.

Among the people who signed the petition seeking to shut down the school were Julia Child ("bon appetite,little black kids") and Laurence Tribe (who never quite made it to the Supreme Court).

I had a somewhat similar experience...for decades I lived in one of the nicer,more affluent,suburbs of Boston.It turns out that after a while my neighborhood became quite "hot". People were being offered $500,000 (and more) for their small yet sturdy houses situated on 1/4 acre lots.Once bought the little houses were knocked down and two million dollar (plus) McMansions were placed on the lots.

Not long before I moved out my neighborhood received a proposal to build some "affordable housing". "OH NO!" said the oh-so-progressive neighbors..."think of the traffic",they said. Of course none of them admitted that it was the dark skinned residents that they were *really* worried about.