I was all set to get fired up about yet another cliched blog post about Boston being racist after that turd on Thought Catalog the other day, so I decided I'd go to Facebook to ask my black friends in Boston what they thought about people saying this shit all the time. Then I realized I don't really have many, so I guess you win this round, Gawker. Fair play. Then I remembered the reaction to that 'terrorist graffiti' from last month. And this, and this, and this, and this and especially this.
Oh shit, and how could I forget this gem from our actual fucking senator's campaign staff: Scott Brown staffers do Indian war whoop at Warren rally?
Oh shit, and how could I forget this gem from our actual fucking senator's campaign staff: Scott Brown staffers do Indian war whoop at Warren rally?
Obviously a post like Gawker's is just meant to provoke nerds like me into getting mad, so I'm not going to quibble with the evidence presented therein, which basically amounts to three cool stories from three cool bros, and a couple of bullet points about sports teams. You can though, you're not as even-tempered and level-headed as me. What's the deal, are we any more, or less, racist here than any other major city?
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What makes Boston's racism more egregious than most other big cities is the presumption that Massachusetts is super progressive and way too educated to succumb to those kinds of problems. Racists in New England don't know they're racist because they see racism as a "southern problem."
I do think there are different flavors of racism, as the original intent of the Gawker thing is trying to get at.
I don't know, I guess maybe as a white guy my experience with the racism in Boston is a little circumspect.
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