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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:44 am    Post subject: Why is Boston Considered Racist?

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:49 am    Post subject:

me thinks bill simmons and Jackie Mcmullen are closet racists
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:55 am    Post subject:

Look who lives there.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:13 am    Post subject:

Chowdah City.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:10 am    Post subject:

OMG. When this can get past editors and make it to print in a big newspaper, you know there are issues.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:10 am    Post subject:

How can you call a city that was the first to start 5 Black players in NBA history racist?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:38 am    Post subject:

jodeke wrote:
How can you call a city that was the first to start 5 Black players in a NBA history racist?


What does the city to do with that? That was the owners call.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:39 am    Post subject:

I've never understood how a city with such liberal politics can also be racist.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:39 am    Post subject:

Because Boston is full of racist.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:45 am    Post subject:

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How can you call a city that was the first to start 5 Black players in a NBA history racist?


What does the city to do with that? That was the owners call.

Is your sarcasm meter broken?

It wasn't the owners the call was made by Red Auerbach.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:47 am    Post subject:

CandyCanes wrote:
I've never understood how a city with such liberal politics can also be racist.


I think we have to learn to separate politics and race.

Contrary to popular believe, many Conservatives aren't anywhere close to racist and many Liberals are. In both philosophies, the vast majority of people are not racist, but there are a decent amount in both (or just everywhere in general) to warrant oversight.

I think in general, Liberals just do a much better job at marketing themselves.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:47 am    Post subject:

lakersken80 wrote:
jodeke wrote:
How can you call a city that was the first to start 5 Black players in a NBA history racist?


What does the city to do with that? That was the owners call.


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 12:54 pm    Post subject:

Reflexx wrote:
CandyCanes wrote:
I've never understood how a city with such liberal politics can also be racist.


I think we have to learn to separate politics and race.

Contrary to popular believe, many Conservatives aren't anywhere close to racist and many Liberals are. In both philosophies, the vast majority of people are not racist, but there are a decent amount in both (or just everywhere in general) to warrant oversight.

I think in general, Liberals just do a much better job at marketing themselves.


Probably one of the best posts I've seen on this site for a long, long time.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:58 pm    Post subject:

Maybe due to the large Irish population of Boston? Here's a quote from maybe the best single volume history of the Civil War "Battle Cry of Freedom"by James McPherson:

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Competing with free blacks at the bottom of the social order, Irish Americans were intensely anti-Negro and frequently rioted against black people in northern cities.


And this tradition of racism has been passed on to the likes of Bill O'Reilly.
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Reflexx wrote:
CandyCanes wrote:
I've never understood how a city with such liberal politics can also be racist.


I think we have to learn to separate politics and race.

Contrary to popular believe, many Conservatives aren't anywhere close to racist and many Liberals are. In both philosophies, the vast majority of people are not racist, but there are a decent amount in both (or just everywhere in general) to warrant oversight.

I think in general, Liberals just do a much better job at marketing themselves.


Oh this x 10000. I'm so glad you said it.

I think what a lot of liberals don't realize, is that when they get on their high horse about how we have to help this group and that group, they're basically stereotyping that group in a negative way. It's as if, we must help them because they cannot help themselves.

That's racism, it's just white collar racism so to speak.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 3:12 pm    Post subject:

Uh yeah, whatever.

Can we get back to bashing Boston please? Thanks.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 3:26 pm    Post subject:

City_Dawg wrote:
Uh yeah, whatever.

Can we get back to bashing Boston please? Thanks.




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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:04 pm    Post subject:

ringfinger wrote:
Reflexx wrote:
CandyCanes wrote:
I've never understood how a city with such liberal politics can also be racist.


I think we have to learn to separate politics and race.

Contrary to popular believe, many Conservatives aren't anywhere close to racist and many Liberals are. In both philosophies, the vast majority of people are not racist, but there are a decent amount in both (or just everywhere in general) to warrant oversight.

I think in general, Liberals just do a much better job at marketing themselves.


Oh this x 10000. I'm so glad you said it.

I think what a lot of liberals don't realize, is that when they get on their high horse about how we have to help this group and that group, they're basically stereotyping that group in a negative way. It's as if, we must help them because they cannot help themselves.

That's racism, it's just white collar racism so to speak.


Yup, that's exactly it. If racist liberals would just back off, black folks would eventually learn to stop being pulled over, harrassed, beaten, shot, arrested, convicted, and incarcerated at enormously higer rates than whites. They would learn how to stop being denied voting rights, employment, and all manner of other opportunities. They need to learn that just because you have neither the voting numbers nor the institutional power, the people who oppressed you and continue to try to do so only do that because of racist liberals.

Conservative America is merely waiting for the racist liberals to be stopped, and then equality will reign. They truly want gays to marry, and women to have reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. They just don't know how to allow these things until no one comes to the defense of these groups.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:01 pm    Post subject:

City_Dawg wrote:
Uh yeah, whatever.

Can we get back to bashing Boston please? Thanks.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 6:24 pm    Post subject:

It's not that Boston is considered racist as much as it is that Boston is racist.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 6:27 pm    Post subject:

There is an old legend that Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis nearly had a secession agreement, but when Lincoln insisted the south must take Boston, Davis knew war was inevitable.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 6:54 pm    Post subject:

I've lived here for almost 20 years and the majority of people I've known and met were not racists. In fact, quite the opposite. Maybe I need to hang out in bars with old white men talking about the past while the rest of the modern world here passed them by. No doubt racism and ignorance exists here just as it does everywhere. That cartoonist obviously has issues. But stereotyping an entire population of a city and labeling them all racist is ignorant.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:02 pm    Post subject:

Linda is right. It's pretty wrong to call all citizens of Boston racist.

So we'll just stick to Celtic fans.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:22 pm    Post subject:

City_Dawg wrote:
Linda is right. It's pretty wrong to call all citizens of Boston racist.

So we'll just stick to Celtic fans.


Linda is absolutely correct in that it's unfair to call everyone within a city a racist. And I don't think anyone is saying that everyone in Boston is racist.

But Boston has a well established reputation in that regard - and it's not just the old white men living in some kind of isolation. Those old white men have sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters. There's a reason that reputation lives . . . one city newspaper just did a good job of making sure to perpetuate that reputation.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:31 pm    Post subject:

City_Dawg wrote:
Linda is right. It's pretty wrong to call all citizens of Boston racist.

So we'll just stick to Celtic fans.
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