[mafree]

OH - the myth is that he sold drugs only to blacks!

I never heard that myth. Never knew who was sellin' the stuff- my life was pretty far removed from all that.

[Burkeman1]

There was a myth- among upscale Irish and others- who never set foot in the Irish Projets of Boston that Whitey kept drugs out of Southie and only sold to blacks and hispanics. Total crap as Roxbury and other Black areas of Boston had their own well connected gangs that controlled the drug trade and were just as parasitic to their communities as Whitey was to Southie. It was a lie fostered for years, even in the Globe by the disgraced columnists Barnicle who was let go shortly after Patricia Smith- a black columnist who was let go for making up stories.