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Uh, if you look at the comments that were made by the white trash of Southie during the bussing crisis, ("we don't want those animals in our schools", etc), you would have a different opinion. Of course, being a "townie", you probably have a "defensive" position.

The folks of Southie lived in projects, collected food stamps, and went to PUBLIC schools. When they were asked to share those projects and schools with the blacks, they were LIVID, and it ONLY had to do with race. Let's not pretend otherwise.

D Street projects and some surrounding areas were sewers until the city cleaned up the projects and the housing boom happened. Old Colony projects held some serious white trash as well. The white people who lived in those areas had a lot more in common with the blacks that they detested than they would ever care to admit.

Uh, if you look at the comments that were made by the white trash of Southie during the bussing crisis, ("we don't want those animals in our schools", etc), you would have a different opinion. Of course, being a "townie", you probably have a "defensive" position.

Gee, sounds a lot like an FR immigration or Muslim thread.

You honestly don't see anything wrong with busing? Were you ever affected by it? They should have bused to Wellesley and Dover and Brookline: everyone in Southie could have been racist to the core, and it wouldn't have made a bit of practical difference in the lives of blacks. Southie people weren't the ones in charge of hiring and firing and promotions and college admissions. It was the "liberals" in the suburbs who pushed busing the hardest.

They couldn't have thought of a better way to poison race relations if they'd pondered for years. Well, I guess theyn did.