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BlushFussy, DamonLeigh and WileyC
Just wanted to straighten out what may be a misinterpretation.
This is where I was living in 1985. This racist event happened
where I was living at the time. It was a working class
white neighborhood surrounded by other ethnic, but segregated
areas. There were often clashes and it was known as a high crime area.
It is still regarded as a trouble spot in Boston.
posted by
Cynthia
on October 16, 2003 at 6:14 PM
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Wow. Racism sucks. You should burn down their houses. ;-)
posted by
BlushFussy
on October 16, 2003 at 4:33 PM
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Disturbing is Right!!
Is yours a very rough, run-down neighbourhood? It doesn't sound like it. The only reason I ask that is because, to the best of my knowledge, the only places you'll get that level of fear in the UK are very, very poor areas, with no jobs, no hope, nowhere to go, just massive, bleak housing estates. That environment breeds violence amongst disaffected kids with nothing to lose, and racism can somnetimes just be a deeply-ingrained focus for it.
Don't you sometimes dispair at how friggin' primitive we can be?
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posted by
DamonLeigh
on October 16, 2003 at 9:15 AM
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That was a very disturbing blog. Is the U.S.A. still living in fear caused by racism? I do feel for you, I have no idea how I would handle it myself. Guess if I was there, I just wouldn't rent the room to anyone at all, and find another way to supplement the income. I,m not being superior, like I probably wouldn't move into an area in Canada that had a predominant ethnic majority that wasn't like me either.
posted by
WileyJohn
on October 16, 2003 at 9:03 AM
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