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.
Graduated class of 1986. A lot of the kids from Southie who got accepted didn't make it through though.
It would be one thing if South Boston was its own municipality, and the "powers that be" decided to take kids from another town, thereby taking away the independence of the local school board. Boston is a SMALL CITY, however, with a consolidated school board. Sending kids from Roxbury to South Boston (or from Jamaica Plain to the North End for that matter) was simply taking kids from one part of town (that had overcrowded schools) to another (one where the schools were at 65% capacity, as many Southie parents sent their kids to parochial schools).
The PWTs in South Boston were not, as they thought, some "island" that would be "protected" from outside forces. They were part of a CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT and it was, from my perspective, artificial and unrealistic that they thought they could keep their high schools racially and geographically homogeneous. Then again, despite their poverty, they were used to having their fat a-ses kissed by the Irish Mafia that ran Boston for so many years, all the while pissing on every other ethnic group (even "white ethnics" like the Jews and Italians) who came afterwards.
Public schools are by their nature open to all. If you do not like the other races/religions/ethnic groups that live in your city or town, go and move to another place where others are "like you."
In any event, the low lives of Southie showed their true colors back in the 1970s and deserved all the scorn that they received. They lived in projects, depended on government employment, and still acted like their sh-t didn't stink.
Southie, like Roxbury and (pre gentrification) Jamaica Plain were/are the type of places where the upwardly mobile and intelligent move, leaving behind the tunnel visioned schlubs who remain mired in cultural and economic backwardness. Their is NO NOBILITY in poverty and ignorance.
Also, if you take and take from city hall, expect city hall to expect you to "do what you are told" on the plantation that is the government teat. This was as true for the low class whites of South Boston as it is for the blacks in Roxbury or the Dominicans in Jamaica Plain.
Will Healey pull a George Allen and apologize?
Or will she come out laughing and swinging like she should?
The facet that roused real opposition was sending Southie kids to Roxbury. I take it you were never personally affected by busing or any other liberal feel-good scheme at the expense of other people's lives.
Beyond that, you're so bigoted, it's not worth talking to you. (Or did you think racism is the only bigotry -- especially other people's racism?) God forgive you.
Members of all classes tend to have lots of unpleasant people among them -- in the lower classes (not without exception), it's more likely to take physical form. The better off tend to have other avenues available.
Again, it wasn't busing kids in that aroused the worst opposition; it was busing kids out.
I actually started Girls' Latin in 7th grade -- I've never been strong and couldn't take the long walk and two-bus trip every day from Roxbury (only to be reminded every day that my friend at Mission (OLPH) was way ahead of us academically!).
Having been one of only two white kids in my sixth grade class, I can entirely understand the concern
Was this the result of busing or just the lay of the land? I know when I was in 6th grade and my sister was in 4th, they wanted to move the 4th grade to another school about a mile away because of overcrowding. The parents went nuts -- this was well before busing, and there was no racial element: it was a mixed-race neighborhood, and the same kids would have been in class. The paarents just didn't want young kids having to go that much further, and they wanted their kids to be able to walk to and from school with their sisters and brothers. The school people backed down, and they put up "cubicle walls" in part of the sewing room to accommodate the two 4th grade classes.
My school was around the block from my apt building
Are you on drugs?
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