Posted on 09/22/2006 12:11:28 PM PDT by pabianice
Two days after Deval Patrick won the Democratic primary for MA governor, his campaign lashed-out at Republican candidate Kerry Healey, calling her a "racist" for wanting to deny MA drivers' licenses to criminal aliens.
We are going to be seeing a lot of this in the next two months as the MA Dems have nominated in Patrick a stone bigot who is on record as believing that all jobs and school admissions must be granted along strict racial and sex quota lines. Patrick was Clinton's Asst. Atty. general for Civil Affairs and Quotas.
In this race we see writ small the national mid-terms and the 2008 presidential campaign.
My son called me on primary night, said he is moving if Deval is elected, going North. Another straight ticket Republican exiting the Commonwealth.
As far as I am concerned, Patrick is an extremist. Having said that, I fear he may win. Reason 1: Healey is no Romney. Reason 2: Patrick appears to be good (Clinton-style) at creating whatever spin is necessary in order to win. A good example of this is the recent argument "Patrick is no extremist because he sat on several corporate boards". This is 100% BS as corporations were basically paying him protection money, but a lot of affluent stupid people in the western suburbs fall for this, hook line and sinker.
They are Royalists up there thus the Kennedy dynasty. All good things come from the Good King. Their royalism is of the fairy tale variety involving a mythicized King Arthur and Camelot and assorted Prince Charmings.
Massachussetts is the first Homosexual State.
It's a little early to pull the race card. If Dangerous Deeval makes it a major campaign theme, it could prove to be a big mistake.
There are, of course, racists in Southie, but the worst racist I ever encountered were in the Boston University English Department. (Yes, I've lived in Southie almost all my life -- we lived in the project in Roxbury for a few years when I was a kid.) Working class Southie has never been very PC, and all sorts of ethnic/racial jokes are de rigeur. (Some of them are even funny.) But Southie people are as ready as anyone -- and more than most -- to become good friends with a black -- or anyone else -- at work, school, etc.
If you're thinking of the busing fiasco, I hope you're not of the opinion that the only reason to oppose busing is racism. If you are, I suggest you give up FR and take up reading the Boston Globe.
The thing that does piss me off is the politics. The silence of the rats, while the men and women of Southie continue to volunteer to fight in this countries wars, in large numbers, the silence of their local reps could choke a horse.
Every time I see Jack Hart, I ask him how his sister Maureen is doing, her husband is a serving oficer in the Army. What has he to say about the war? He and the rest are Bagless.
Different types of racism. One was a class battle (long rivalry between the Irish and the blacks) the other a more patronizing perspective.
(And was Southie's attitude different in kind from those high-end suburbs, where if your car is old and beat up, the police follow you until you leave their hallowed precincts?)
Before busing, the major rivalry -- sometimes antagonism -- was between Southie and Eastie. Blacks were moving into Southie, and lots of blacks drove or took the bus over to the beach in the summer with no trouble. Yes, busing did change all that. I gather you weren't on the receiving end of that assault on liberty.
Personally, I find prejudice against white working-class ethnics no more attractive than racism. Goes over bigger with the PC crowd, however.
The yuppies have changed swathes of Southie into a colorless, bloodless imitation of life.
And -- BTW -- you can sit there with a straight face and talk about other people's "patronizing perspective"? Beyond irony!
Yeah -- we have lots of war memorials. Including -- if you've never seen it -- the statue of Joan of Arc in the lower church of St. Brigid's -- dedicated to the men Southie lost in WWI.
On the whole, it's part of the, well, McGovernization (continuing) of the Dem party -- and the concomitant politicization of everything. Are you old enough to remember when the Dems were patriotic? ;-)
Maybe there's the "nationalization" of the Dems, too. I don't know much (anything) about the structure of their party, but it seems today local Dems are more inclined to take their marching orders from the national party -- though they try to disguise it at the local level, a fine balancing act if ever there was one.
There seems to be too a lot of residual resentment toward the Republicans -- historically here anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant, anti-anyone-without-a-trust-fund; people heard all about it from their parents and grandparents. Northeast Republicans have never been an attractive lot and they don't seem to be improving.
Southie and East Boston?? You just outed yourself because Southie's primary rivalries were with Dorchester, the South End and Roxbury. East Boston's rivalries were with Chelsea and Everett with some Townies thrown in for good measure.
Busing destroyed the concept of local neighborhood schools and the results are still being felt to this day. I will conceed that there was plenty of anger directed towards that decision because Boston was a neighborhood driven city. Nevertheless the folks in Southie's behavior was some of the worst of all.
And please tell me, what should people in Milton think when a car load of kids from Mattapan are driving around the neighborhoods? Should the cops be keeping an eye on them? Just as much as a car load of kids from the rich burbs cruising Humbolt, Grove Hall or Geneva Avenue because they don't belong there.
Dapper was an ignorant ass....
of course his digs at David Scondras were always good for a laugh.
In national elections, its a different story.
South Boston is one of the few places in the northeast where you actually have (or had, haven't been there in awhile) white people living in housing projects.
Deval Patrick is an empty suit. The more exposure he gets the worse he will do. I heard this morning that he has a 64-25 lead over Kerry Healy. < sigh>
It may be hard to impossible to overcome that big a lead.
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