50 years after busing in Boston, documentary digs into 1970s school segregation

[@BR-ex9xp]

What a terrible idea that was. They should always go to school in the district they live!

[@akafozzy]

I was sent to a black school in the 70s. There was 6 of us on the first day. 2 of us on the second week. I got beat up every day by black students and the black principal. I was 7 moved back to alaska with my dad.

[@Nothingbutahoundog]

Thank your Democrat fellow white for that great diverse experience😂 😅 grew up in the 80s a mexican immigrant kid had to fight my way through school and even in my 20s

[@terrancesmith428]

The black principal beat you up?

[@Myopinionmattersthemost]

Did Black parents stand outside of the school as a mob calling you racial slurs DVD throwing objects at white students?

[@Myopinionmattersthemost]

​@@Nothingbutahoundogmy mom attended school in imperial valley in the 1960s only 3 black families in her community and she had to fight her racist Mexican classmates almost daily. Mexican citizens and non citizens have a history of being racist and anti black. Despite Mexicans receiving civil rights in California due to Black advocacy.

[@Nothingbutahoundog]

@@Myopinionmattersthemost really how did she have to fight? Was she getting assaulted daily? Was there a black day ? Like there was a mexican day in Compton? Please do tell

[@wustrkr]

They chose two poor communities. They could've used so many different communities but they chose the poorest. That's the real story.

[@capoislamort100]

It wouldn’t have made any difference!

[@rubydawn1]

the rich would have got the cops to do their dirty work the poor took did their own

[@SuzanPeters-p4e]

My brother was an MP in the National Guard in Boston during the Busing. He said it was chaos and really nothing to do but watch. Crazy.

[@Myopinionmattersthemost]

In order to understand this racism, you have to understand how hard Irish and Italians fought to be considered white in America.

[@liam.4454]

It's the Jews

[@pmclaughlin4111]

I always hated Common Ground. I never felt it told the story of what my family and friends actually experienced. This "documentary" seems more of the same. At the very last meeting on assignments, he looked at the coded map and asked what about his block. BPS said there were no houses on that block. He pointed out not only were there houses, there were 37 kids that lived on that block ...and they were not the only blank spots on the map. 30+ kids, a week before school, and the system had already lost us. Everyone stayed in BPS that year. The following year, everyone left the public school system except the family across the street (Newly divorced mom, 6 kids)

[@sistacentral9307]

White Flight destroyed Boston!! Forced Bussing is a Sin!! My father worked his butt off to buy a house in Dorchester l, close to my school. I walked to school! It was great! He also had various sailboat at Savin Hill Yaght Club! He loved living near the ocean. He moved us out and it broke his heart.

[@ThatGuy-ky2yf]

Hiding Comments?

[@renee5506]

So are black Americans in majority of the cities in northern states any better

[@veloc123]

Bolshevik Propaganda on steroids..

[@matthew-jy5jp]

Thank god for PBS and WGBH

[@SuzanPeters-p4e]

Your film is nothing but SALT.