NESN TV reporter apologizes after use of ethnic slur

The list dago on and on.

 

Certain Americans have always hated people. It just moved from the Irish and the Italians to Islamic.

 

Her name reminds me of happier times in Royals fandom.

 

That's no shit.

 

Arguing most racist city is tricky. It has a lot of forms, and the blatant displays of racism in the south aren't necessarily worse than the subtle, insidious racism of northern and western cities.

But segregation? Everybody's fighting for second after Milwaukee.

 

I've lived in Boston for more than 25 years. I'm not about to excuse the stuff that happens here but I also doubt that it can be quantified as "more racist" than Chicago, Philly, Detroit, NY or any other large industrial city. It feels more that the busing crisis of the 70s and all the attendant ugliness (which would have happened in any major city where it was rolled out in that fashion -- just watch footage of MLK's Chicago Campaign and the march through Cicero or interviews with whites in Levittown, PA over the prospect of African-Americans integrating their neighborhoods) created a reputation for Boston that results in an "Oh, that's just racist Boston being racist Boston again -- boy are they all racist up there or what?" reaction every time something happens. The "most segregated" part is a fair point, however.

Not sure how much this matters, but Boston also has a relatively small African-American population compared to other cities too. And a much lower percentage of those who consider themselves "black" are descendants of slaves in the South. A much bigger proportion are from Haiti, other islands in the Caribbean and Cape Verde.

 

Four years ago, a Martian tells us:

- The Royals will win the World Series.
- Ventura will die in a bizarre crash 15 months later.
- The team will spend 2018-2019 losing 100 games and no one will be upset.
- Keitzman will get fired for alluding that Andy Reid couldn’t discipline his drug-dealing, gun-packing, heroin-pushing sons.
- Hosmer’s traffic-reporting girlfriend will be doing sports in Boston.

What a weird world.

 

Did you really mean to write that it doesn't matter much if Boston is racist because there are relatively African Americans there?

 

He was referring to the segregation. Since there is a relatively small black population, it’s easier for “themmuns” to be forced into one big cluster. Reinforcing that is that you can grow up in the area and never meet a black person until you go to college; some school kids are bused to the suburbs, but it’s a fraction of the student population. Boston has never had a black mayor, it was only in the past 10 years that a black person won a citywide council race and there’s been two black county officials (both DAs).

 

Not only will the Royals WIN a World Series, but go in back to back years after going 86-76 in 13.

 

'Boston is racist' is an attack on Irish-Americans.

 

No, he meant to say if Boston wasn’t racist, more blacks would move there.

His argument echos that of Augusta National. “We love women and blacks, and just can’t understand why none have been members these last 100 years...”