[mafree]

Not trying to be a snot- but I don't think you quite understand what the Bulger crime family did to your beloved Southie in the 80's and 90's. An entire generation of kids were destroyed- given up to drugs, jail, violence, prostitution (Whitey liked to pimp out young teen girls by the dozen- 12,13,14 year olds), insane asylums, welfare, alcholism and suicide. I am not saying none of these problems didn't exist before- but there is definite evidence they became far worse while Whitey and his brother had free reign. Whitey is not some romantic gangster that I think you kinda see him as (I may be wrong)- he was a sick twisted man who raped young girls, helped murder at least one young girl the Rifleman Flemmi was screwing around with while dating the girls mother, and helped destroy hundreds of Southie youth with drugs. Organized Crime people are not the Soprono's or the God Father- they are complete amoral animals who are parasites on their communities.

DAYUM!! I moved from Beantown in 1987- didn't know Whitey was up to all this since that time, unless some of it was undercover while I still lived there. Pitiful.

[Burkeman1]

OH - the myth is that he sold drugs only to blacks! Total lie. Whitey sold drugs all over Southie and other Irish enclaves like Somerville, parts of Dorchester, and even the Cape. In fact there was a higher murder rate over drugs and just random violence in White Irish Southie than in Roxbury or the black parts of Dorchester during the 80's and early 90's. Black parents from Roxbury didn't want their kids to hang out with Irish kids from Southie as they were a bad influence!