How Racist Is Boston? | The Daily Show

Roy Wood Jr. visits Boston to find out why it has a reputation as one of the most racist cities in America.
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[@Amy-sx7hw]

"If you wanna know if Jurassic park is safe you don't ask the dinosaurs" Exactly

[@MRBJT51]

Lol...my favorite

[@noeminoemi1350]

omg

[@atcodoe1568]

That's a great analogy

[@streched_thin]

Coriden Cain i had a stroke reading ur comment but if i am reading it correctly i think u mean that blacks also have a prejudice against white people but it’s not looked at the same way as whites against blacks but you have to ask yourself: after nearly 400 years or more of whites completely destroying black people, what can you expect. of course it’s going to be like that

[@sharonrevelle4401]

I agree 💯 why would you ask enimes if they your enimes, common sense

[@Joedamoyaw]

The people who owned slaves didnt think it was an issue either.. 🤦🏿‍♂️

[@haidengeary8277]

None alive have been slaves, not are there any alive today who WERE slaves, in this country. Want to find slavery? Its all over the world even today. Black people need to fix their own people, and stop crying , blaming others.

[@cheeseenthusiast8065]

Haiden Geary WOAH slow down there, this was simply a mockery of the white people who denied the fact that systemic racism exists in Boston. Also bringing up the fact that black people are no longer slaves does not mean that they are free of the wrath their ancestors experienced. The fact that their ancestors were poor and had little to no opportunities since the abolishment of slavery means that it was MUCH harder to recover and be as successful as white people.

[@Joedamoyaw]

SpicyRobes im glad somebody gets it.

[@TheRenetp]

What a stupid comment haha

[@kevinwashington2228]

Massachusetts was the first state to abolish slavery

[@MaxHohenstaufen]

Up next: wall street millionaire claims poverty is a myth: "I've never experienced poverty. Not once! Tell me, where is it?"

[@pashon4percushon]

hahaaaaaaaaa

[@ll-nm4fw]

those millions are EARNED

[@tyndaleverwer4509]

You'll know what real poverty is when you take a step out of the richest country in the world (the arrogance the sheer arrogance to call yourself poor ignoring billions of people who earn $2/day)

[@MaxHohenstaufen]

@@tyndaleverwer4509 Have you been smoking crack, brother? Don't. It's bad for you and makes you look stupid.

[@mikeyt7880]

Ok can everyone please stop equating disproportion of wealth with racism. I agree that a huge factor of why black wealth is so much lower, is aftermath of slavery/jim crow etc. that is indisputable, BUT that doesn’t mean that a whole city like boston is structurally racist today. those factors still play a part today but I don’t get why people think that means America is just as racist today as it was 100 years ago. Ridiculous

[@penelopelowder5204]

When I was living in NYC. I had a friend who was a recent arrival from England. He was British of Nigerian descent. He lectured me and my friend, two lifelong Americans, that we, as Black people, are too emotional about racism. We see what we want to see…he was bombarding us with talking points he picked up from his white American colleagues. He then took a business trip to Boston. Immediately upon his return, he rang us up to meet with him. He looked so shellshocked. He said three words, “You are right.” The racism he experienced in Boston rattled him so much, he became a different person. He dropped all pretense and became a very aware individual.

[@charlesstuart7290]

Another bogus unnamed racial incident in Boston story. What's similar to these posts is that the racism is never described. - just alluded to.

[@1038bro]

@@charlesstuart7290 what is the purpose of this skepticism?

[@charlesstuart7290]

@@1038bro Come to Boston which is a big liberal college town that is majority minority, where the mayor is the daughter of Asian immigrants (she won in a landslide) the Police Commissioner, the Congresswoman, and the President of the City Council are all African American. The major hotels are in the Back Bay which is a big tourist area that's pretty safe well into the night. Boston voted 85% against Trump so it's hardly a white nationalist hotspot. By the way, while dozens of Black and Brown people have been murdered by the New York Police Department for LWB, I can't remember when such an incident in Boston. Maybe someone should tell this alleged Nigerian that he might not be as safe in New York as he thinks considered that several who were murdered were recent African immigrants. Again -no one names the problem in comments, they just refer to it.

[@_VISION.]

That's usually what does it

[@_VISION.]

@@charlesstuart7290 y'all were saying these same old things in the 60s

[@carmengeorgeweddings3906]

Boston is super racist. I tried to find an apartment with a black friend. I was even told by one landlord that if I found a different roommate the apartment would be available. It was upsetting.

[@brettt141]

Lol. Shit that didnt happen for 1000

[@bentorres9823]

Wow!!!

[@cortion730]

jaq uemo 👈🏾 we’ve spotted a racist y’all

[@cortion730]

Carmen George Weddings you should have filed a report with HUD because he violated a federal housing law by discriminating against your friend

[@cortion730]

jaq uemo because it's obvious that racism is prevalent in America. Especially in cities like Boston. But a lot of bigoted racist try to deflect from it by coming up with other alternatives. And that’s what you’re doing right about now

[@ahumanperson1638]

Dude. Should've sent a white dude to ask the questions, would've got a honest answer.

[@orion7881]

The Chinese guy

[@Ken-hr4sg]

I don't like how he trivializes and makes jokes about it comparing donuts and Starbucks coffee to racism. The black woman he interviews obviously is not amused.

[@ko_djo]

Right

[@EpicDoggiez]

Shriya Sriram ikr

[@101perspective]

I would be curious to see how rich and poor white people got treated in various situations in the city compared to rich and poor black people. I suspect we would see a lot of similarities. Would the black folks still be treated worse? Probably. However, I doubt it would be massively different.

[@denicebanks4926]

“I don’t feel it.” Of course you don’t. It isn’t directed at you.

[@calebpaddack7450]

Here is the conundrum to me. I hear people say "of course you don't see racism, it isn't affecting you!" but if white people are so racist why do I never hear white people talking badly about black people around me, or hearing black people being used as the puns of jokes, why do I never hear any of my white friends saying anything rude to black waiters? I mean if someone is racist, you assume they would be that much more comfortable voicing it around other people of their own race. And if they are scared to let any other white people know they are racist then it clearly isn't a huge problem otherwise it would be an acceptable practice.

[@tranquil3209]

Roman Hook first off let me correct you black people cant be racist

[@tranquil3209]

Roman Hook black people will never be able to hate white ppl on the level that white ppl have hated black ppl

[@tranquil3209]

Roman Hook people like you hide behind words like “ I’m not racist” when in reality ppl like you are why society can’t move forward

[@tranquil3209]

Roman Hook disgusting

[@JerryAndTheTesla]

I was born and raised in Boston. A few months after this was released, I moved to Atlanta. This was a life changing episode for me. Lol

[@mitcha.9768]

How was the experience?

[@bridgettennis2841]

I'm always trying to convince my family to pack up and move from Boston to the south. If a white Bostonian can see the problem, it's not figment of the black citizen's imagination. I think one source of the problem is the fact that in Boston we are obsessed with terms like "black community" and "white community". Very divisive.

[@KB-ke3fi]

@@mitcha.9768 Probably a LOT better. The population of Atlanta is about 90% black.

[@bruhbutwhytho]

​@@KB-ke3fiwhere did you get that?

[@yohanncka92]

​@@KB-ke3fi 90% ? Where?

[@christopherf.8201]

"I don't feel it" says older white male about racism towards blacks

[@UserRobot215]

How the hell is he supposed to answer that then?

[@joedino5774]

www.reddit.com/r/VeryBadWizards/comments/a1omnk/boston_is_one_of_the_most_racist_cities_in_the_us/ this video is bs watch it get debunked

[@diobrando2026]

@@joedino5774 Lmao if that's your source you debunked yourself

[@joedino5774]

@@diobrando2026 lmao I'm not tho that video was made with a bunch of bad cherry picked facts and some 20 something year old easily debunked it just another case of libtards trying to create racial tension by trying to inaccurately make Boston sound like some backwoods southern state

[@diobrando2026]

@@joedino5774 I'm weak you actually said libtards you are just making yourself look more like a tool and a fool each reply lmao

[@BrendaFOBRocks]

i moved to boston a few years ago (im white) and although i've never seen someone being rude to a poc one thing i've noticed is every time i'm at Walmart, if there's a poc in front of me leaving the store, the employee asks them for their receipt. I've only been asked for my receipt ONCE. But every time, without fail and I've kept count of it, they have asked the poc in front of me for their receipt. if you don't see the the racism in this city you're just not looking hard enough

[@laalaa99stl]

Ties in nicely with Roy Wood Jr's advice kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXildGSXet6Zp8k

[@BrendaFOBRocks]

aah i love roy wood's stand up and i haven't seen that clip, thank you!!

[@rlee1231]

I know that happens at BJs in my city. I haven’t seen it at the Walmart’s I go to though. I’m a Black woman. At BJs my mom bought 4 TVs. Now all the TVs were listed on the receipt. The guy went around to look at every tv to see if it matched the receipt. I was so pissed off!!! But I kept my cool on the outside, even though I was fuming and hurt. I understand checking to make sure nobody steals anything but we just left the cashier station. So, it’s not like we could have went and changed TVs or anything.

[@BrendaFOBRocks]

Ronnetta Lee - i'm sorry that happened to you. I wouldn't mind it so much if they were checking receipts from everyone, but like i said, they only checked my receipt once. its always really obvious they are racial profiling. if they saw you at the cashier that just makes it so much more stupid

[@BrendaFOBRocks]

robert66michel yes, like i said i haven't seen personal racism but that's because 1) im white and 2) i'm surrounded by friends/family that aren't racist, so it's not something I've personally seen. For example, I've never seen someone using the n word. For the most part though I haven't witnessed explicit racist behavior. One time at Walmart a white lady was extremely rude to a woc - the woc was taking a long time at the cashier because she was short on cash. not a problem. its wallmart. shit happens all the time. the white lady behind us moved lanes and was being a bitch about it - but she never brought up race. its complicated because racism isn't always explicit. Would the white lady have been as rude if the woman in front of us was white as well? I dont know. Maybe. Maybe not. The lady behind us was rude and it pissed me and my boyfriend off

[@Nuyorella]

“Know where you wanted” she smiled but that was to hide her pain.

[@goddamnitandy9861]

Fr :( I’m Mexican so I can relate to her, white people are racist cause they don’t know how it is to be a minority and think they the shit 😤

[@bigcel42]

IG?

[@robertroman3617]

Obama would not have become president if black people were the only ones who voted for him. That woman who said that was brainwashed by democrats and people like Trevor Noah. She now has a poor self-image which made her a handicap like a lot of black people brainwashed by democrats. Successful and happy black people don't believe in racism.

[@robertroman3617]

@@goddamnitandy9861 White people are by far the least racist of all people on earth. I'm saying this as an Asian Immigrant having lived here in the U.S for close to 20 years now. Racism is only in your mind. I know you're preoccupied with racism because you're watching Trevor's show too much. Get rid of it and enjoy life.

[@bvsteel990]

Robert Roman Obama isn’t black, his mother is white. He’s biracial

[@michaelhuffman6429]

I'll never forget I was in 9th grade in Alabama, 1974-1975, and Boston was just starting to desegregate. Our teacher wanted us to write them yankee kids about what it was like to be integrated! Imagine that, we we were in the deep South telling the so-called "open-minded", "modern" northerners about integration.

[@charlesstuart7290]

I went to a Boston school in 1956 which was 20% white and 80% African American so we had a lot more experience about integration than you did. Your segregation was de jure - by law. Ours was de-facto, by housing. Big difference.

[@KB-ke3fi]

@@charlesstuart7290 wanna bet?

[@twhis9843]

@Priyanka77574places like Boston, Chicago and New York are certainly racist but you are right, the racism I saw in my time in the South was a whole other beast. I’d seen plenty in my life but seeing a society that was truly institutionally racist shocked me.

[@Grabthattass]

But we have John brown

[@larissa.laisla]

"know where you're allowed, know where you're wanted" that was painful

[@jon2kx]

Sucks to hear that so much. As a white man, who has visited Boston multiple times, I always felt like Bostoners talked down to me based on my southern accent, and so I thought they were somewhat smug. I wonder if the anger I felt at them was just a small taste of what Black people have to deal with in bean town. If so, it must be a bitter thing to have to deal with so often.

[@deborahminter6231]

😥

[@PurpleHairOMG04]

kommisar you think a mayor with term limits can fix a deeply entrenched societal problem? really? republican or democrat, I think we both can agree that has never been the case and never will be the case. It goes beyond party lines, beyond city boundaries, beyond any jurisdiction. Racism isn’t really something you can just legislate away. I urge you to take the time and read the various books that have been written on the problem of racism within the healthcare industry as well as recent reports on the racial disparities in COVID outcomes and then come back and tell me that racism isn’t a public health issue. I recommend Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington, Black and Blue: the Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman, and Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy. We’re living in the Information Age, sir. There are plenty of resources out there for you to inform yourself, and if you choose to stay as uneducated as you seem to be now and continue wasting your breath trying to insult people on the internet, that is entirely your choice. Best of luck.

[@thatsright1968]

@kommisar have you ever seen a bully in skl

[@verucasalt2391]

@kommisar You OBVIOUSLY are unaware that blacks can't get ahead because there are less opportunities out there for them, not because of laziness. Whites shouldn't make comments like that because you have no clue. I'm white, married to a black man and I really have no clue myself. There's no way to know what it's like on someone else's shoes unless you've walked in them yourself. If I were you, I wouldn't make comments as you did, it shows such ignorance and embarrasses yourself.

[@fahimabegum4207]

"I eat when I'm sad" I felt that on a spiritual level

[@theniceguy2024]

This was the most funniest serious video

[@davidortiz3094]

Too relatable

[@CantComeUpWithAGoodName]

Weirdly I eat when I’m sad but eating when I’m sad makes me even sadder idk

[@mentallydisturbedllama473]

Hope y'all are alright.

[@AniMeLoVeR23451]

i think its better to be just sad instead of sad AND fat but it seems 900 people are that oh well

[@Appytato]

8 dollars? That’s wild, I had no idea the disparity was that big my god

[@duncanct]

Simon Bradley for every 30,000 a white person makes a black person makes 1$ does that actually make sense

[@bellemermaidTV]

@@duncanct This was looking at net worth, as in what you own vs. what you owe.

[@gevorgvanarmenie9788]

@@bellemermaidTV how is that possible?

[@bellemermaidTV]

@@gevorgvanarmenie9788 It's a direct quote from the video

[@matt-jc4ly]

@@gevorgvanarmenie9788 They also only interviewed a grand total of 400 people out of the 600,000 that live in boston... Alot of room for error, depending on what area of the city they interviewed.

[@bubbyu77]

The thing about racism for me I am a 60-year-old African-American male and the part that really breaks me is when I’m in a situation where I met no one no harm and no one will hear me or see me they just assume that I am corrupt and they give you this look are they treat you in a manner that says I have absolutely no use for you because of one reason you’re of black race. At that moment I’m guarded and I just feel a deep sadness and like I can never win.

[@susanobrien9917]

😢 no one should ever feel this way

[@41kils]

as an indian man i feel this all the time in boston. My friends treat me great, my white friends in massachusetts treat me great, people in massachusetts are generally very smart and great to work with. but in public, going about my day, errands, hospital visits, at the bank, at the grocery store, i get treated with a vibe of "Oh what is wrong with this guy, because there must be something." I grew up in a upper middle class suburban neighborhood in massachusetts, my neighbor was a rich white man ceo. I grew up next to him since i was 3 years old. My neighborhood kids were the best we were like brothers including his two sons. but this man never took any moment to greet me. when i grew a little beard at 17, he made sure to say i look like a terrorist. How stereotypically racist can you get?

[@peerperemans897]

I just hope some of the optimism from these brave and smart journalists makes you feel seen and heard. Peace from some random white dude in Holland!

[@dude9318]

Dont worry man not all people are like that

[@RandalfElVikingo]

You are welcome in my country your next vacation, friend. At least you will rest from racism.

[@tonyglock9816]

"Negrometer" 🤣😂😆

[@newthrash1221]

Tony Glock When he said that, it had me dead 😂

[@shotgun517]

@Al Morrow It's a joke laugh a little you sour puss!

[@TheWingmanPro]

kommisar why do you think that is? I want you to use your peanut sized brain for a second and try to comprehend why that would be

[@leendertjagt5542]

@Al Morrow yes there is

[@Justamanliving]

Took me OOOOOUUUUTTT!

[@ChillRichard]

I was waiting for one of them to say, “Boston is not racist because I have black friends.”

[@truthonly-]

Their famous answer lol. Just one tho

[@privatelifejust_4me]

Kendal Tomlin always one ☝🏾 lol

[@anthonyroberson5199]

LMAO

[@mrford203]

Probably cause they don't have black friends hahaha

[@DK-000]

Oooohhh!!! 😂 true

[@truth0079]

I'm retired Navy, and while assigned to a ship, Boston is the only city Blacks were told to be very aware and careful in. South Boston was off limits. This was in the late 80s.

[@PrizePirate]

South boston is where all the gangs are

[@davidb.854]

@@PrizePirate black gangs?

[@Elligy617]

@@davidb.854 not black gangs. In highschool my coaches wouldn't let us off the campus when playing South Boston and Charleston Highschool's. We couldn't go to the store across the street for fear of racially motivated violence towards the visiting students

[@hellokittyangel211]

Unfortunately, not much has changed. I’m from the area and was up in NYC for Labor Day weekend where a fellow Black girl who came up for Boston Calling last year and stayed in Southie for the event because it was in her price range and said that she’s never making that mistake again because the racist based Hell she was in and this was a girl who like me: a young alternative Black woman into interracial dating who you could tell felt more comfortable in typical “White” settings than “Black” ones (I met her at world famous Heavy Metal bar in Brooklyn).

[@notsure6187]

because of the mob. whitey bulger just died, so don't have to worry anymore. south bostons a gentrified liberal mecca now anyway.

[@kayc421]

I'm currently working in Boston, and I am the only African American in my department. My husband hate it in Boston. I'm not sure what happened to him while I was at work one day, but he went home and refuse to return. He wants me to leave as soon as my contract is up 🤣😂 and we're from the SOUTH 🤣😂

[@noahidewarrior5838]

Live here for most of my life and the south was waaaayy better. They have serious issues here.

[@cococock2418]

Then leave? We don’t want you here.

[@applessnack9253]

To everyone comparing Irish discrimination to black racism: "Although Irish immigrants faced oppression in the United States, they also participated in it. African-Americans and Irish were considered by many Northern whites to be on equal footing, but many Irish immigrants quickly embraced "white" identities and became part of the social construct that oppressed African-Americans as an avenue to better employment, interweaving issues of classism and racism. "Once the Irish secured themselves in those jobs, they made sure blacks were kept out," writes historian Art McDonald. "They realized that as long as they continued to work alongside blacks, they would be considered no different. Later, as Irish became prominent in the labor movement, African Americans were excluded from participation ... And so, we have the tragic story of how one oppressed 'race,' Irish Catholics, learned how to collaborate in the oppression of another 'race,' Africans in America, in order to secure their place in the white republic." Educate yourselves.

[@beatlesfan1622]

finally someone said it. so many irish people would cry to me about how oppressed they were and it made me really confused lmfao.

[@mimsylopez9840]

Sounds like Jews , Armenians , and middle eastern-people lol

[@anthonyphung4932]

"know where you're allowed, know where you're wanted" that was painful

[@macc240038]

So he considers himself an expert and so what he wrote is a fact. Case closed.

[@darkershadez876]

Not only Irish but most of light skin complexion and straight/er hair texture tht can fit in r passed off as white ......

[@jtipale]

White people talking about never "feeling" the racism... 🤣🤣

[@phantomtq]

he should have said im here answering to your answers so would it explain?

[@jtipale]

@Jesus was gay Arrre bhai... Sirf Bihari, Madraasi kya yaha log caste pe aa jate hai. Aur bhai, tujhe kon bola ki me bihari ya madrasi karta hu? Kya fook ke baitha hai?

[@Jonathan-kz8mr]

​@asthma attack its because they are white so people dont go after them for it lol , its not like they were colored or something for them to feel different

[@danielessex2162]

@@Ask-Jesus-for-the-Holy-Spirit yet in an episode about racism we encounter no racism.....just people who seem to not be racist saying they do not see racism. Oh wait wait that just means they must be racist......

[@payden0_086]

You so relaize black people are racist towards white people to but oh no if black people are racist to white people it's funny

[@beastinout7291]

How do you know? Long pause "I don't feel it" *say the white man*

[@benheinz8817]

He doesn't. And you honestly can't blame him; he's never known a different life, and probably doesn't harbor those same feelings himself.

[@saradeen3984]

Lmao😂read your comment when he said that😂

[@twoonthewall]

@Wilson Snap! There are more times than i care to remember i have been in conversation with a stranger for the first time at a bar or sports game and they get to talking and come out with something racist. They might never say that to a black guy. In my experience.

[@Mitrunk]

This is Pretty racist of you to assume that just because he’s White he can’t tell if it’s racist or not. YOU FUCKING RACIST

[@redalert2291]

Historically white men are known to tell big as lies. So he's probably lien.

[@darkfeather6857]

I was born and raised in the South. I've lived in North Florida, South Carolina, and Texas. I went to college and grad school at B. U. from '95-'04. Boston is THE most racist place I've ever been. My experiences were so traumatic, that I will never go back there. Even though I'm a man, I am very sensitive. I think the most painful experience I had was the first clear incident of racism I experienced. I was a freshman, and every day after lunch, I would walk to a huge park in Brookline with a pond, soccer field, playground, etc. The park was a couple of blocks away from campus in an upscale neighborhood. One day as I walked there, a mother stood on her porch and screamed for her two young boys, who were on the swings, to run to the house immediately. She was hysterical and it scared me because I wondered if I was in danger, too? What is going on?! The boys ran to her arms and she held them and gave me the meanest death stare, and I realized I was the threat. This woman had screamed hysterically because she saw a teenaged black boy with a back pack walking to a park and assumed I was some kind of threat to her little boys. It was a sickening feeling. I turned around, went back to my dorm and cried. I never went back to that park again.

[@Funnyinnithaha]

Sincerely doubt this story, but OK. Why would someone be in hysterics that a black person was walking at a park?? There are many different ethnicities in Boston and surrounding areas, you’re not the first one she’s seen and I guarantee you misread the situation.

[@joes3703]

Clearly you’ve never been to Brookline. I’m white and a life long resident of the greater Boston area. I completely without question believe this. Also you could insert almost anyone and the same thing would happen.

[@joes3703]

I recommend you search for 98.5 fm the sports hub Brookline 911 bits. They are hysterical and clearly demonstrate the lunacy that is in Brookline

[@e.l.4860]

​@@Funnyinnithaha Misread it how exactly? Were you there?

[@endedera]

@@Funnyinnithaha A woman once frantically herded her kids into her car upon seeing me walking in her direction, locked the doors and stared at me as I walked past… in broad daylight. I was simply out for a stroll. I know it’s hard to believe that racism exists, since you don’t experience it, but boy do I have some news for you, buddy.

[@sct4040]

A friend of mine, studied at MIT and then worked there after graduating with a MS in Electrical Engineering. She is brilliant and black, and I take her word for it. Boston is very racist.

[@CoffeeRolez]

🤣

[@shevandy55]

Thank you for sharing. And it's believable Boston is racist, because why would anyone need to lie about that?

[@tate9529]

I'm not going lie you had me for a minute there and I thought you were about to say something else.🤣

[@Cam-zb7ut]

@@shevandy55 you can’t just call a entire city racist you know.. not everyone is racist

[@mk177]

studied there, still miss it but there can be very different types of racism in Boston lol so many . The scene from Departed to comes to mind :)

[@UncleBensChannel]

The only people who truly understand racism are the individuals who experience it.

[@onemonth8644]

The Solar NERD whaaattttttt nooooooooo 😱

[@papetogaming]

Yep

[@aikidoka00]

Or they think do. Some people are just assholes, but they think people dont like them because of their skin color.

[@aikidoka00]

@Osamudiamen Blessing lol white teen girls do it too, crazy kids

[@rds990]

Or at least were "TOLD" they experienced it. Was the inequality you experienced really racism, or a lack of your effort ? Was it a lack of education ? Was it a lack of work ethic ? Was it a lack of flexibility on your part ? Maybe ? Possibly ? See nothing in this world is clear cut. There are always other possibilities. Ya see, even whites experience full tilt unfair treatment in the workplace, and in their lives from time to time. Example ?? I worked for 40 years at the same company trying to get ahead, trying to get promoted, trying to get higher pay, trying to get noticed. Nothing. I retired in the same job role in which I was hired. Now if I was black ?.....would that have been labeled "racism" ?

[@darlingnikki1353]

I am a 45 year old white woman and a life long resident of Boston's north shore working class community. I worked and went to college in proper. When this video started I disagreed, that Boston is racist. I always thought it was very diverse. Then I saw the statistics and feedback from black people. I fancy myself an armchair sociologist yet I didn't know that we are perceived that way nationally much less locally. I guess I'm oblivious because I grew up poor, in the hood and all of us struggled together. Idk. Then again now that I think about it I got off fb last year because some of my life long friends and acquaintances support Trump and I kept getting into online debates about immigration etc. and things got ugly. So.yeah.Boston.is.not.as.progressive.as.I.thought. Wow.

[@kobaltkween]

I once went to visit a friend for a _day_ in Boston. When we just randomly went out to a pub for a drink, I overheard the guys (who hadn't seemed to notice us) at the other table start a conversation, "What would you do if a black guy started dating your sister?" And then they started going off an what they'd do that hypothetical guy.

[@SenorGnar]

I think you should really look into the history of your own city. I’m not even from there, but all my family on the East Coast has warned me about Boston the several times I’ve been there to visit (around the more “pleasant” college town areas). And I’m sure you’re a very “nice” person yourself, but how would you not know any of this about your own city? If you have Black friends back home, consider talking with them about this. The sports related stuff is awful, but as the piece mentions early on your city’s general population flipped a shit, and attacked black CHILDREN over integration of schools. Not in the 50s, this was well into the 70s. If none of the other hard data does anything for you, consider that some parts of the South weren’t even still pulling that shit by then. Not knowing about that would be like being from LA and never having heard of the 92 Riots, or the Watts Rebellion that preceded it. So again, if you have Black friends back home, talk to them. And if you don’t...well, that at least that partially explains how you could know so little about the legacy of the place you’re from.

[@heavenqueen3680]

Guys from boston love telling me I'm pretty for a black girl. People never not hired u because of your name or they have enough white people. You or anyone in you family has never experienced redlining no matter how poor. You must understand that u will not recognize it if it isn't directed towards you. The reality is this country does not like black or brown people. From the beginning to the end. They murdered 90% of the native people already here and have the survivors locked up even now. If i say i own my own business it's oh that's cute not where is your store. It is structured so u wouldn't feel it and ignore the suffering. The starvation. Understand i haven't seen my mother or father since 14. Lived on the streets. No one cared. I am not an innocent child that needs help. I'm just another one that needs to be locked up or used for sex. That's the life of a poor black women in America. This country was created so that anyone brown suffers and doesn't have a quality life. It's much worse than you even think now. But it's always been like that. My mom had glass bottles thrown at her when she was trying to goto elementary school. These are not isolated incidents. This is how this country feels about me. And all those people you deleted help support it. And people who ignore it saying it's not that bad facilitate it. Innocent children have been murdered because of people thinking it's not that bad. Do you know emit till. Do u know Morgan Freeman was born before him and they dragged a child around like a dog and that fat old white bitch that lied to have him murdered is still free and raised evil people and got to keep treating black people like that for decades. No your country is not loving nice accepting or great. Your country only likes other living creatures dead or in cages. Congratulations you never had to see your uncle hanging from a tree.

[@_xancurse_12]

Wow thanks for sharing. Also, you are not alone with leaving facebook, I had to stop using it as well. It broke my heart seeing my family's beliefs. The hatred they would go on about.

[@elijah2805able]

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

[@dolphinextreme48]

I’ve been in Boston for a year now. Racism definitely exists. It’s subtle, but very present. I’ve had two occasions of people throwing racist slurs at me, I’ve felt uncomfortable in nightclubs cuz some people didn’t seem comfortable having me around when they are dancing, I’ve been assumed to be a delivery boy at a hotel room when I was expecting my date, and so on. The black woman said it perfectly, “You gotta know where you’re appreciated”.

[@byebye4246]

Stay strong man! And thank you for your words! Be safe ✊🏾

[@sirchi8731]

​@@byebye4246 that was a troll account

[@byebye4246]

@@sirchi8731 how do you know?

[@sirchi8731]

@@byebye4246 seems like somebody gas a guilty conscience 😏

[@mattcurt88]

I think the question should be “Is there an American city that doesn’t have a problem with racism?”

[@ghosty8235]

yes!

[@Epicadi2]

Yep

[@sidney4022]

Is there any society in this world that does not have this problem?

[@Epicadi2]

@@sidney4022 well said. Everyone, at least at one point in their life, has had a problem

[@twoscoopsaloha7151]

Racism is as American as apple pie

[@carmenvita]

Most people aren't going to notice social issues that don't affect them. Sad unfortunately. It boils down to you're either clueless or simply you don't care.

[@ko_djo]

Exactly, you nailed.

[@mammiesanonymous]

Or deflecting

[@fruitman2426]

It is also a case of the social problem not being a big deal or being fake. People see what they see

[@rgwak]

Like the two old white people they interviewed, who said, "Racism? No. We just don't see it." Sounds about white.

[@elliotmyers625]

Ro G Sounds about white? Fuck off. This is why it's hard to make progress when it comes to race issues - because everyone confuses a flawed society and inequality with racism. Those two people probably don't hate black people and don't see the problem. It's not a part of their lives. Why would they understand poverty or structural inequality? How many poor black people do you think they interact with on a regular basis? If you've never dealt with cancer, you don't really understand the disease. Then someone in your family gets cancer, and you understand in a whole new way. If self righteous liberals continue to treat everyone that doesn't "get it" like racists, they'll just alienate people in the middle. The conversation needs to be about inequality, not racism. None of their stats prove anything about racism. They prove a lot about inequality. Let's stop fuckin' talking about racism and start talking about inequality. I have been a liberal for a long time. This isn't coming from some angry Trump voter.

[@PhrontDoor]

I'm a white guy, and unless you know WHAT to look for, it's easy to live your normal life in a city and not noticing racism. But that's to be expected, it literally doesn't affect white people -- and when it does, it's to our advantage. If you want to find out if there's racism, you absolutely have to ask those that would be most affected by it.

[@brenobacci]

I had the same problem. My sister, mother and ex-girlfriend all thought I was being overly sensitive to these things, overreacting to leftist talking points about racism. But I've been riding my bike all over the poorer neighborhoods of my city for over 15 years, and I would have to be blind not to notice the demographics changing as I move away from my house in a middle-class area. The opposite happens when I ride my bike towards the affluent neighborhoods and gated communities - everything gets whiter. Other people will tell you it's a coincidence. I've seen it all too much to know better.

[@marcjay077]

PhrontDoor thanks for the honesty! It kills me when people want to act like racism is a figment of the imagination!

[@wally86_]

@@infiltr80r that's stupid much like you

[@troyarrington5492]

Milton Waddams dude shut the fuck up

[@philosophersvolley4191]

Actually attacking an entire group calling them the problem is racist unfortunately you all are pussy whipped by the left into thinking white skin makes you immune to racism lol... fucking dumb. Just look at white South African Farmers literally having their land taken from them children murdered that shit is fucking crazy and super racist but nobody bats an eye because white people are the devil like what the actual fuck we set up societies that function and we're the devil because of it and before you pull out the whole slavery card we were the first to abolish slavery assholes in the entire fucking world that's right Western Civilization not any other country on the fucking planet and in fact Africa still has slavery going on so don't come at me with some fucking slavery bullshit

[@mitchk2981]

The person who says “know your neighborhood” was spot on. Many of the well to do white liberals he was talking to don’t frequent some neighborhoods where black people don’t walk or drive. I remember when black cab drivers were being dragged from cars and beaten when they drove into the “Southie” area. I was working on a project where we had to meet at a factory just over the bridge that led into South Boston. The very nice black cab driver who picked me up at the airport apologized and asked if I would mind getting out and walking across the bridge with my suitcase since he had been warned not to drive into that area. I also remember being warned by the hotel doorman to not drive through certain areas when I went up there with my young sons and their nanny (who was a middle aged black woman). Notice he did not interview a lot of black people at Fenway? Not a terribly welcoming place. This type of racism exists in many cities but Boston seems to be willing to cover it up.

[@cococock2418]

Black cab drivers were never “dragged and beaten”, black people seem to be addicted to both lying and crying victim.

[@jonasbernal6642]

They should’ve used a white guy so we could see how they really feel

[@Hyle-King-Neithekaos96]

Yes. Asking a black man to do it knowing white people will lie😂😂😂

[@nickleback3695]

You think all whites are racist?

[@Hyle-King-Neithekaos96]

@@nickleback3695 No one is saying that but what white person, not on social media, will actively say Yes to racism. As much as it's swept under the carpet. They'll do what these people did. Straddling the fence

[@Berries20]

@Bo Lep i think so too

[@ahk8946]

Jonas Bernal yeahhhhh

[@thomasjefferson2935]

People be defending racism by saying it’s not just America 🤨

[@kindnepenthe]

Whitey Powers neo-nazi, troll, or both? the world may never know.

[@uhcarson5927]

Whitey Powers god you’re so fucking stupid and ignorant. there is no anti-white agenda. there is an agenda for equality, but when somebody like you feels so entitled to privilege, equality can feel like oppression. have an open mind and think about people other than yourself fore once. and also, america becoming more racially diverse isn’t an issue.

[@uhcarson5927]

Whitey Powers ok first, the name is from a junk email i created a few years ago. i really didn’t expect people to get over they but okay. and, you’re the one being self centered. you’re advocating that aryan people are above all others which simply isn’t true. i am actually aryan, my great-great grandfather migrated to america and started a family. i’m as blonde hair and german as it gets, but there’s no fucking way i would be so fucking stupid to be a nationalist, racist, xenophobic piece of shot like you

[@uhcarson5927]

Whitey Powers well it sounds like you do give a shit because you belittle people solely on their race. and i’m not really sure how advocating for equality of all peoples makes me a piece of shit but okay.

[@kindnepenthe]

iAmPerson21 don’t bother; you’re feeding the pyre.

[@amentehuti-naga4156]

Im born and raised in San Francisco which is supposed to be the most diverse city, but its still very racist. Dont believe the hype. This entire country was built on a profound racist ideology. We may have to do a complete overhaul and rebuild with proper intent

[@sufferyetgain]

@LouisCypherVI nobody gang bangs like that anymore in the 90's yea now nah

[@bigro2153]

Yeah right!!! Look at the black community... We don't want y'all running anything. Facts are facts!

[@bradfordbright]

The worst part is, this is probably the least racist country in the world so it tough all over.

[@8v71buses]

AmenTehuti- Naga415 Very spot on SF is hecka racist because the black population is very low and it is heavily populated by whites and Asians while the East Bay Area is where the Black and Hispanics are. There’s only a few black areas in The City like Fillmore and the southeastern part of SF for example

[@thelofithot777]

San Francisco is not racist🤣🤣

[@marcusshaw8387]

I went to Boston once and I will never go back. The level of racism that I experienced was traumatic to where I called military commander to request to be taken off the assignment. NEVER AGAIN

[@charlesstuart7290]

Like what??

[@lostchild2003]

Do you think that perhaps all the violent crime committed by blacks in Boston might have something to do with white Boston not being fond of black Boston?

[@charlesstuart7290]

@@lostchild2003 Most crime in Boston is on Black on Black, White on White, and Latin on Latin, as it is everywhere else in the country.

[@lostchild2003]

@@charlesstuart7290 That's not true.

[@charlesstuart7290]

@@lostchild2003 You don't obviously come from Boston, and know nothing about the history of White and Black gang violence which are the origin of most murders in Boston historically.

[@spicydoodlesoup]

I like how Atlanta, a city surrounded by Confederate flag tourist attractions, is the most welcoming

[@badmonkey222]

Atlanta has a larger multi-generation African American population.

[@lddavis197]

Smh its 2020 let the race issue die already

[@BanlieueBaby]

Tell it to white ppl.. esp your local PD.

[@SilkyLew]

@@lddavis197 It would die if it wasn't relevant still today.

[@lddavis197]

It shows lack of intelligence

[@abdulsmith1569]

9 out of 10 times I've been to BOSTON I've had a Racist encounter! No exaggeration............

[@DV-lr8ec]

Damn.. which parts you go? I lived there 4 years and never ran into any issues, I swear

[@itsfreerealestate6747]

9/10 times I was in Africa, I had a racist encounter... No exaggeration

[@8v71buses]

I fully believe that about Boston and it sounds no different than it's counterpart cities like SF, Sacramento and Denver for example. Those cities are full of spoiled racist clowns that are use to mistreating black people only because there's a low percentage of us and a vast majority of them antagonizing us just like the cowards that they truly are

[@kellyspence1972]

ItsFreeRealEstate Africa? False equivalence much? There’s a difference between speaking of racism in one US city (as he experienced) versus an entire continent coving much of the northern and Southern Hemisphere. Unless you’ve been to all Africa’s 52 countries - to speak on its racism. Good try tho.

[@itsfreerealestate6747]

@@kellyspence1972 Kenya :) And Nairobi. I have lived there for several months, more than once. Happy now?

[@brandielliott4208]

I am white as a ghost but i sadly know that if a black person draws attention to this matter...then they are considered controversial and just want attention. However, racism is real & is still very alive in the USA. This is the sad America we live in.

[@redexcold9710]

was created by democrats

[@ramirosifuentes295]

No it was created by racist people who felt superior beacuse you are basically saying democrats are all racist!

[@brandielliott4208]

@@redexcold9710 it was created by people like you trying to separate yourself and making yourself feel better

[@desireawinton9745]

@@ramirosifuentes295 They both were at one time racist democrats and racist republicans, but now it is mostly the Republicans that is in the hate group, racist category, they are still trying to get revenge on "Black Americans for not being their slaves, hate on them because they can't control black Americans, hate immigrates even though they are more immigrate than others, they are fear mongers, so guilty of doing evil by the way they have treated others who is not white or disagree with their beliefs systems! Not all Americans are racist people though, it is those bible toting, obsessed gun owners, so called Christians, America need to make sure they don't let others racist haters enter the country because America already has enough already?" these people is the very people who has a problem with education!

[@davidscott3726]

Most black Americans don't tht their racism and there's @ssholes.

[@bridgettennis2841]

As a Bostonian who spends pretty much every vacation in the deep south, I can definitely say, Boston is far more segregated than anywhere down south. We have black neighborhoods, brown neighborhoods and white neighborhoods and they are all sus of eachother. I grew up in Jamaica Plain and I was definitely unwelcomed on specific streets. Last Sunday my nephew took the train into the city for the first time and was jumped by 7 black kids in their neighborhood. So, yeah there is Boston is VERY racist and set in the segregation mindset. It's disgusting and scary.

[@coolkatmehrfth]

It’s naive to think that something doesn’t exist just because you don’t “feel” it. The problem with racism in this country is that too many people, who don’t experience racism, think that racism is a thing of the past. Because of this, they don’t even view racism as a problem. And whenever they are presented with examples of racism, they disregard it as an isolated case. It’s gonna take complete communication from both sides of the racism counter to tackle this thing.

[@missourigreen051]

In the 1960's Bernie Sanders helped with the Civil Rights protest, and in the 1980's he helped support gay rights even though he isn't gay. The reason why he did those things because he is a white person who doesn't let his white status to define him as a person, and because of that he is able to see what is wrong with the world. That is the problem with many white people in America, they let their white status define them, and people like that can easily be seduced into being a racist(never coming out of their comfort zone so when seeing something familiar like a white person in conflict with a black person, instead of finding out both sides of the story the white decides to believe the side he is most familiar with).

[@coolkatmehrfth]

missourigreen051 completely agree. White people need to start realizing that it isn’t a bad thing to have a particular status. What is bad however is how you choose to use it. If you choose to sit on it and coast through life, when you could be out there helping others, then you really aren’t deserving of what you have.

[@athoughtfulape]

The issue is that too many think that racism doesn’t exist if they don’t see people being lynched, having (overtly) different eating and resting places, etc.

[@mstrdbear]

@@missourigreen051 Bernie Sanders is also Jewish, and we all know what happened to them when a white nationalist came into power.

[@Mcquiz95]

I think it's just an awareness thing really. I live in Eastern Europe and we basically don't have people of other races, except for exchange students and cooks at Asian themed restaurants but man you can really tell how racist a lot of people are. The new generation is mostly fine but the older folk are very racist.

[@jwpride617]

As a Bostonian, it's very unfortunate, but it's true. Our school system is STILL very segregated by race and income. We have a LONG way to go.

[@al3xx3991]

Respect. I like the honesty, hope Boston gets better

[@MrDjsmooth87]

That truly breaks the heart and soul

[@jwpride617]

It does. Segregation is one of the biggest causes of racism. I was fortunate to be 1 of 5 white kids in my middle school, so I was surrounded by people from all backgrounds. It will be hard to change hearts and minds when we stay within our own tribes.

[@jwpride617]

Jaron Hsu well put

[@BrendaFOBRocks]

The rich don't owe you - why move when we can stay and make the city better?

[@its__justb]

"I don't feel racism, therefore it doesn't exist." Makes sense 😏🤔

[@janky477]

Sure it does. It just doesn't dictate how the person behaves around AAs. They aren't in charge of changing other people's minds, only their own.

[@noble604]

Like gravity 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@willceurvels]

IKR, how out of touch do you have to be >< ...

[@paytontowle8305]

I bet you they’re Christians as well and don’t see the irony

[@Salvo11]

"I've never been to space, therefore it doesn't exist. I haven't visited Russia, so it's a fictional country that people made up to be bad guys on TV, right?"

[@RR-nw4ci]

I've lived in NYC, LA and DC, and hands down, never felt the levels of racial micro aggressions as a brown woman like here in Boston. Ask any POC and you'll get something similar.

[@jeanpierre9539]

I have to disagree. I’m black and from Boston, and NYC was the worst! The racism was in your face. White people would cross the street blocks away, and then cross back when they pass you. In the coffee shops, look at other people that were there after you, and take their order. I packed up and went right back home!

[@akshayshrivastava97]

We as a society should be ashamed that someone had to say "know where you're allowed, know where you're wanted" for themselves.

[@robertroman3617]

That woman sho said that has low self-esteem. It is not society. It's herself that needs to change. To be successful in life, you need to trust yourself, believe in yourself, don't think that others are more gifted than you.

[@mercy2354]

Robert Roman you’re basically saying she chooses to be oppressed and she’s the reason. Wow the stupidity, delusion, and audacity of people

[@onemonth8644]

Mercy he’s saying that she feels oppressed, not that she is being oppressed

[@mercy2354]

One Month she chooses to feel oppressed🤨 in what fucking world? So as a black women she is not systematically oppressed?

[@focusstudios1296]

@Mercy Right on!! I’m sorry that you have to listen to people talking about things that they cannot even begin to comprehend. They’ll never understand oppression because they’ve never experienced it.

[@priyankadey4855]

You're not alone, Roy Wood Jr. I eat when I'm sad too. I have gained 150 pounds since Trump took office.

[@tennisdude52278]

You went from thicc to thiccccc.

[@ilangilang7185]

@@tennisdude52278 that's how you get the girl.

[@Towoawawabo8]

Doesn't look like it.

[@mojoe717]

hope he doesn't win a second term for your sake

[@anap847]

You guys are hilarious 😂😂best thread section.

[@sleekoduck]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I was born in Texas, raised in the Deep South, and lived for three years in a predominantly white South African community overseas, and no place I have ever lived in came close to having the level of racism I saw in Boston when I went to university. It was sickening and shocking.

[@kaylenonusic706]

Wow

[@rusty315]

Sleekoduck how so?

[@Waffulz805]

Please tell us more

[@jessarose2288]

@J W you're a fucking MORON. A white man doesn't automatically get charged with a fucking hate crime for killing a black man. If he has swastika tattoos and belongs to hate organizations...they can prove the crime is racially motivated. And if a black man kills a white man and he belongs to a hate organization (but funny enough hmmm...as many of those don't exist that hate whites I wonder why that is..hmmm....) then he would be charged with a hate crime. Educate yourself. Even just legally...

[@harvemedharvemed7796]

Wow

[@leftistdegeneratejs]

I went to school in Boston and I gotta say having gone to school in both urban and rural cities and towns, Boston was BY FAR the most uncomfortable and racist place that I’ve been to, I was followed by security guards at every single store I went into, got drinks thrown at me from speeding cars, and especially during the 2020 election felt deeply uncomfortable and in distress walking alone at night

[@timothymorris4967]

The fact of the matter is being black any place u go you're gonna deal with racism it's life it's sad

[@menosbbgirl]

Timothy Morris that is sad. Very sad.

[@aylinayala5686]

People think only black people deal with racism.

[@timothymorris4967]

@@aylinayala5686 I agree that is true

[@JoonieJuice]

@@aylinayala5686 I'm an Arab Muslim. Ik that despite all the hate that comes my way from ppl across America & the rest of world for that matter, ik that I still have it better than black ppl. The rest of us POC may experience racism, bigotry, prejudice, xenophobia etc...but it will NEVER equate to the crap that black ppl go through. Seriously, Africans from various countries r being sold on slave auction blocks in Libya, other r so- called "servants" but many treated as slaves throughout the Middle East & into parts of Europe. Blacks r treated awfully in all of South America, especially Brazil. Aboriginal ppl of Australia continue to be spat on. Africans across Africa r being oppressed in many ways by Europeans & Chinese. I'm sorry but the rest of us whether you're Asian, Arabian, Latinx or whatever just don't have it as bad as them. That is just a fact.

[@MickyTubbs1985]

@@JoonieJuice Kudos to you Sir for stating a fact that is "DOWN-PLAYED and AMELIORATED IN EVERYWAY BY FAKE, FALSE, PHONY, and FRAUDLENT ARGUMENTS OF "FALSE EQUIVOCATION" and" IRRATIONAL RATIONALE !"

[@luisagf1385]

White guy: I've never felt racism in this city Me: ah yes, the floor is made out of the floor

[@soytupadre_x]

That’s not how the meme is used

[@salman9329]

@@soytupadre_x he is trying to prove a point... Just leave it like that.. Only focus on the important thing

[@anti-apathy9715]

Racisms does seem to only follw one breed (can't write it or google will ban comment). Bing search>> 12-year-old Punched MO. shocking *Next*. Bing search 84-year-old assault SF. WOW There , U hv your answer to who commit racist acts in America.. All concealed from America by MSM/ now Big Tech also in on it. Why?!

[@formodius]

@Arely Munoz Mejia dude is trippin

[@raymond8250]

@Michael P Learn how to speak properly: HIS TYPING DUM###

[@THISISRISE]

I lived in Boston for a year and i'm from missouri. I was pulled over for no reason a lot. My neighbors refused to talk to me. They called the police on me for having a pitbull that happened to be the most well behaved dog on the block. I lived in Norwood by the way. I had the cops called on me for wearing a hoodie and taking my girl to work. I was denied jobs for being over qualified.

[@johnsreactions6658]

That isn’t a racial thing, there are black people who do the same thing to other black people This also happens in Hispanic neighborhoods

[@johnsreactions6658]

Lots of people are denied jobs for being over qualified, Nothing you said was racial It was more about being in a nice neighborhood and wearing a hoodie, same thing happened to me and I’m white

[@THISISRISE]

@@johnsreactions6658 doesn't sound nice to me at all. Smh

[@Del_116]

boston is definitely racist as hell like 1980s racist

[@ratherbenapping10]

Nike you are the problem ignoring facts and creating excuses

[@GeneralLiuofBoston1911]

A recent example of Boston's racism (1987-present): We used to have this subway line called the Washington Elevated, running along Washington Street (southern half of the orange line) from Chinatown to Forest Hills, which ran through many minority communities such as blacks, Irish, Jews, Chinese, etc. In 1987, Boston tore it down in favor of the Southwest Corridor, which moved the orange line 0.5miles westward, moving the transit access to more majority and richer white communities. The area was meant to receive a new light rail line, but that never came to be. And then in 2000 (13 years later), the area finally got 'bus rapid transit', Silver Line 4 and Silver Line 5. It is only bus rapid transit on Silver Line 1, 2, and 3 in the Seaport District up to Silver Line Way, which Silver Line 4 and 5 do not run through.

[@esjb100396]

I'm really happy you mentioned this and I have to read more into it. I decided to move to an area that was more diverse but the closest line is the orange line. I kept thinking that it didn't make any sense that i kept having to go around essentially to take the bus to the train to get to work and that the city planners must have done a terrible job. Public transit takes just as long as walking would and now it makes sense that it's structural racism.

[@GeneralLiuofBoston1911]

@@esjb100396 It gets more interesting when looking into the commuter rail (in which many areas the trains used to run through the city/town, but then got moved outside of the town and using the 'park and ride' system - drive to the commuter rail station, park, ride into Boston, come back, drive home). And also the Arborway route of the E branch (a section of the green line 'temporary out of service' that connected Forest Hills (orange line terminal) with Huntington Ave (on the green line) and the rest of the western side of Boston. That Arborway section was replaced by bus and is a fairly bus route.

[@cmac2295]

As a black people that lives in the west coast , I was warned never to go to Boston

[@bp837]

As a black man/woman who lives on the West Coast, I was warned never to go to Boston* Rehearse your sentence structure, brother.

[@G.r.e.g.g.l.e.s]

I personally love the syntax "As a black people"

[@bp837]

I prefer my language to be spoken properly, thank you very much. A lack of interest for one's wording means an overall lack of interest towards any and all things. In such cases, said persons' words should hardly ever be taken seriously.

[@cmac2295]

It's KZbin, not Harvard University. I meant to write " *person".

[@cmac2295]

@Brian They just wanted something negative to write.

[@shawmutt]

Born and raised in New England. I moved south of the Mason-Dixon as an adult. Racists are definitely more outspoken in the South--the North is as racist, but try and hide it. I'm not sure which one is worse.

[@jlnolan1]

@Jim Elliott - Yeah been to both. What's your point in regards to what he was saying about racism in the North vs. South?

[@sharstarg2414]

Racism is terrible PERIOD!!!!

[@paulsalary4186]

In the midwest there is what I call kind racism, they’ll feed you and ask how you’re doing and then have a conversation with you whilst saying racist things at the same time

[@imuncomfbecuzihavsubsandno4371]

Evan Nicholson oh you don’t even know a lot of my white friends say racist shit as jokes but it’s still racist but I don’t really give a fuck so I let that shit slide

[@NotShowingOff]

I’d say wealthier communities are less exposed to diversity. However, structurally the northeast cities are more liberal in the sense that they support Universal health care, more gun control and believe in better schools. So if you have to live among racists, isn’t it better to be in a place where the benefits are better.

[@ms.cassie_909]

As a black women who was born and raised in Boston, this is all true and the accuracy is haunting. Our neighborhoods are still segregated and we encounter racism from all non-black ethnic groups - We are taught at an early age where we can and can not go. We come together for sporting events but quickly part ways as soon as it’s over

[@TannerGoated]

Racism will never end because of black ppl when some don’t go they way they scream out racism

[@ms.cassie_909]

@@TannerGoated You sound like a suspected white supremacist with that comment

[@philcollin5891]

He's right ^ we've seen several instances where blacks scream racism, when there is nothing racist it at all. Politicians say everything is racist.

[@Auto_Mattik]

As a white boy that grew up in mattapan, I can confirm you're statement. I've witnessed friends being verbally attacked with racist remarks by groups of white kids in downtown Boston.

[@matteobrandi7541]

@@philcollin5891 hahahaha sure.

[@ACGreyhound04]

Once, a few years back, I went into a CVS Pharmacy in Back Bay, across from the building where I worked. A clean cut black guy in a suit walked in behind me. A security guard started following him all around the store, like he thought he was going to steal something. I was wearing ratty gym clothes, but nobody bothered me, probably because I’m a white guy. That looked a lot like racism to me.

[@ACGreyhound04]

@Howard Bueker - I was born and raised in Massachusetts. Where did you get the idea that I was from Canada???

[@upendo.3570]

@@ACGreyhound04 lol Ur username sounds Canadian 👌

[@ACGreyhound04]

@@upendo.3570 - It’s based on the mascot for my university, which is in Massachusetts, but was founded by a French Canadian order of Catholic priests.

[@francesfinney8188]

Did y'all hear the crickets when he asked, "How do you know?"

[@joedino5774]

www.reddit.com/r/VeryBadWizards/comments/a1omnk/boston_is_one_of_the_most_racist_cities_in_the_us/

[@mightymite3958]

He was tryna feel it lol

[@protectyourholes4141]

Yeah, editing tends to do that. Bloomberg used the same trick in one of his ads. It really isn't some gotcha

[@Anelliplayz]

Biggus Dickus reread your question over and over until you become smart.

[@The.Renovator]

It's because Boston is full of the descendants of Irish immigrants, who were _VERY_ racist towards black people. Strange considering the Irish were barely treated better than black people at some points, you'd think they would have united against a common enemy or something.

[@theson22788]

Renovator what common enemy , the other white people ?. U stupid

[@ouranhshc100]

@@theson22788 you should read up on American history. Irish immigrants were treated just the same as blacks in this country for years. And instead of teaming up with them they decided to be racist against the blacks in this country as well. Just like bullying in school, someone bullys someone weaker and that kid then bullies another weaker kid. It's sad really

[@heribertosarmiento1265]

KpopMusicFTW is simple the oppressors notice their ranks were getting low so they use the Irish and gave them a seat at their table after conditioning them to hate those that don’t look white.

[@GoldenCobraDJ]

this is TRUTH

[@TheMe26]

it was a smart tactic from the irish at the expense of the blacks act like the white to be treated like the white selfish but i dont blame them too much

[@liftwithTB]

I’m from Illinois, and in my dads younger years, he lived in Boston. My uncle was a football coach and the school district was very hard on him because he was one of the first black head coaches in Boston. When my dad played there, he said he encountered none stop racism there. Big part on why he moved back to Illinois.

[@liftwithTB]

kommisar lmao move on? I wish white folks would move on from being racist but that hasn’t happened now has it? Talking about move on, shut tf up with your ignorant ass.

[@Maj0rT0m1]

Come home, black man

[@richardsmithjr2337]

Wow. Smh.

[@bigmikeystyle]

really because I lived in chicago for a few years and I can tell you those white people are some of the most openly racist people i've ever met.

[@cinquentakhamseen3124]

@ben brody it sure is!!!

[@polotrey]

Bill Russell said he experienced more racism in Boston than in Monroe, LA in the 30s and 40s where he was born

[@sanfranciscopatriot2837]

Shannon Greene Someone got an F in biology

[@nweeezy]

Thats because he was a successful reminder of the REAL reason racist whites hate black men.

[@samc8941]

Shannon Greene so you want the white race to be annihilated?

[@Akaya7777]

Fat Tyson Fury you are so ignorant to history. Every single deadly disease in history comes from white Europeans. Most groundbreaking discoveries of the last 4 centuries were discovered by Asians. And Europeans are involved in more wars and conflicts, and have committed more counts of genocide than any other ethnic group in history. Literally everything you said is false and Im White 😂

[@carlsullivan6494]

Bill Russ said some pretty nasty shit about New Orleans. Bill was far from the first black player on the Celtics, and the other guys did okay. From the start of his career, Bill wouldn't sign autographs for free. not even kids and he called kids looking for autographs "monsters hunting scalps" he also said he "hates most white people just for being white"

[@euomu]

"I haven't experienced racism", yes, you're white???

[@smendes2004]

Exactly! I am white, but most white people just don't get it.

[@evanyoung6993]

White people can suffer from racism too Dumbass.

[@endermeap6488]

Moisty Butter Sure, but it’s way less common

[@evanyoung6993]

Endermeap ever heard of affirmative action?

[@endermeap6488]

That’s debatable, but I did say “less common” and not “doesn’t exist”

[@jc9240]

"I'm white and I don't feel the racism" got to be the best statement in the whole piece

[@sharonrevelle4401]

Why would you feel racism it's not directly at you or your race, common sense.

[@samuelbradley6921]

I was in the U.S. Navy back in '82 and my ship, the USS Mount Whitney came to the city of Boston. Me and several of my friends had a pretty nice time that day. We found the bar based on the series Cheers, we went to the theater district and caught a movie, etc. We didn't run into any problems that day, Perhaps because we had to be in uniform during the day. Exhausted from all the walking we went back to the ship to take a nap for the partying we'd planned that night. We had already scoped out a club that we were going to check out that night. We didn't have to be in uniform so that night we get to the club and we were told that we could not enter because it was a private club. We were disappointed but ok. rules are rules. We get back to the ship and some of my white friends were going on about what a blast they had at the same club we had been turned away from. Now. I had read that Boston was racist when I read the autobiography of Malcolm X but this was the 80"s. smh

[@hertexfas985]

As Boston being my hometown, I’m quite ashamed of our reputation that I was completely blind to being white. I apologize to my fellow Americans and hope that the future will bring change

[@templar-yu5ve]

Don't apologize for something you didn't do im also from boston i think all the shit they are saying is bullshit

[@alandgomez5905]

@@templar-yu5ve Of course you do lol.

[@Sergio-fu7mv]

I personally don’t think it’s “bullshit” as guy says, but also no one chooses who we are. We have to come to peace with that. The human race is all that matters. The colors are just colors. We all have the same beating heart.

[@sarahf.s.2961]

Dont apologize when ur not responsible. Just be part of the solution.

[@djc7447]

Boston got this rep because of forced busing when a white judge from Brookline ordered busing but of course didn’t include Brookline only working class black and white children zero children from the wealthy suburbs. The truth about the United States it’s more about class than race

[@Azulmine]

“It’s Atlanta actually” LMAOOOOO

[@maggiemcfly5267]

@@chrisw5078 "which city treats black people the best? Boston!! ... It's Atlanta actually"

[@chrisw5078]

@@maggiemcfly5267 okay cool with me the citizens treat each other very well thank you

[@maggiemcfly5267]

@@chrisw5078 it really went over your head didn't it? It's 👏 a 👏 joke 👏 from 👏 the 👏 video 👏

[@chrisw5078]

@@maggiemcfly5267 no I get It I just don't know what your wanting to gain from

[@maggiemcfly5267]

@@chrisw5078 i'm not trying to gain something from this, what are you talking about? You're the one who keeps making unrelated statements to Azulmine's Atlanta comment and I don't get either why you keep deleting the comments I originally replied to.

[@bridgettwilliams3354]

I ve been living in Boston for over the past 20 years. This is so very true, but i moved here from West Palm Beach , Fl which is waaaaay more racist. But this is the daily life of an African American. There is nowhere to go to esape it. We are the only set of people that didn't ask to come here, all other people and races come here voluntarily, period.

[@walkietalkie6679]

Facts

[@williamhill6225]

We should take our butts back to Africa. Atlanta is cool.

[@twoseriousdogs6762]

Comment of the year 👍🏽

[@pinkskincanthandlethesunli6508]

💯

[@pinkskincanthandlethesunli6508]

@@walkietalkie6679 Very true as well! Lol

[@linda_ladyleo133]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 I went to Boston one time for business… The air was so uncomfortable there you can feel The racism is very strong, that was 2015… I don’t know if there has been a change.😓

[@JerryAndTheTesla]

Nope, no change! You felt it right? Now imagine being black and growing up in the midst of it everyday at school from teachers to students and then later employers.

[@linda_ladyleo133]

@@JerryAndTheTesla 😔 That’s hard To imagine in this day and age. I live in California northern… They hide it, are sneaky, and have lots of secret societies here…but the racism is still strong. You don’t know till after the fact that racism had occurred. It just makes you stronger… The weird thing about it is I did not start seeing discrimination, and racism until after I get my masters.

[@funkslave9425]

@@JerryAndTheTesla Thats crazy, is it overt racism or on the low?

[@JerryAndTheTesla]

@@funkslave9425 both sometimes simultaneously if that makes sense. Put it this way, I got called a n!gger (heavy er) on the low by a white kid I thought I was cool with in 8th grade. We just came back from lunch and he waited until we were back in the classroom on opposite sides. Like I said I thought we were cool so I kinda laughed at first, he kept saying with this look in his eye and I was like “oh 💩 “. The teacher saw him and yanked him outta class. It was a private school mostly Irish kids I was one of three black kids in the 8th grade.

[@funkslave9425]

@@JerryAndTheTesla It must have been tough being the only black kid, although private school has a lot of upsides too lol. Irish people also suffered oppression in the US. The funny thing is that Sometimes people who have been discriminated against can be the most racist to other 'oppressed' groups. Its almost like they feel they need to get theirs too. Its projecting, and people of colour esp. black are probably seen as the softest targets.

[@CTidda23]

The white peoples face at 2:57 when he said "How do you know" 😂😂😂 You don't know because u live in a bubble cuz

[@PankajDeoli]

Christopher Williams Cause they never did anything racist nor do they have witnessed anyone doing it. That's how they know

[@CTidda23]

@@PankajDeoli they're 50-60 years old and they're Bostonians I'm pretty sure they've witnessed some racism

[@krettzy3540]

@@CTidda23 Obviously there will be some racism, but that doesn't mean that the whole city is racist(I'm not saying that Boston isnt Racist)

[@kamdenandrews2301]

Pankaj Deoli or because their just plain ignorant like you

[@PankajDeoli]

kamden Andrews atleast they're not crybabies like you who want everything in a plate. And those who blame everyone else prospering for there own troubles.

[@Plutonianextract]

I'm black and grew up less than 2 miles away from Fenway. This is ALL true.

[@bishopmontel2]

This is why I hated everything Boston except for New Edition

[@gzuss6043]

@@bishopmontel2 ya u definitely seem like a Candy Girl

[@bishopmontel2]

@@gzuss6043 shut yo lame ass up😅

[@PlimroRp]

Hey! What about Donna Summer?

[@michaeladewumi8583]

plutonianextract If you black and grew up in Fenway area, I'm sure you talking about Back Bay or Brookline. Yes, those are somewhat affluence white neighborhood and you might experience some racism there.

[@lenatisdale]

Seeing this video and seeing that there were no black people in white spaces told me all I needed to know about Boston.

[@redsox33344]

So because an area is predominantly white it means they're automatically racist. Pathetic.

[@notsure6187]

and award for most ignorant observation goes to..

[@Xpwnxage]

What is a white space

[@b3at2]

Lena Tisdale shit almost makes me wish i was born white.. so i could enjoy this country the way it was ment... Only... I cant imagine living with white ass legs .. oh my god... The thought...

[@k.-flynn]

@@Xpwnxage a Hallmark gift card shop

[@neri3376]

My brother moved There with his wyte gf a years ago and I was worried . Fast forward, a few months ago my brother had a asthma attack and was put in life support in Boston. Not only did his wyte gf show her disdain for his blk family and Wouldn’t let us know what happened to him promoting us to drive or fly down there to see him on his death bed. The gf turned the hospital against us and they were so rude to us and wouldn’t let us know what was going on with him. The staff showed no emapathy. One nurse got rude because I called to get info on his condition and told me she can only speak to his gf so don’t call again. Also while visiting it was apparently that my brother moved to the all wyte section so while visiting my family and I was clearly out of place as we saw no blks unless they were working but just casullay walking around dining shopping or more it was all wyte. I’m from Philly so it was def different. They would start at my husband and I as if we didn’t belong as well. I couldn’t wait to get the hellmout of Boston. Not sure if all if Boston is like that but my brother picked he wrong part to move too.

[@djc7447]

The United States is raciest not just Boston.

[@petespanchos]

Legit, but also Boston is a fucking cesspool.

[@8v71buses]

1000% FACTS

[@nickv.3573]

@AfricanxRose italy is racist?

[@quwandathornton]

Truth

[@grimjack148]

Every race in every place is racist. We are trying to get better.

[@callmecarmella]

As a Bostonian I can honestly say we have grown as a city. I remember growing up in the 70’s. The city was segregated by “invisible” lines. You would suffer a beating ( or even death) if you crossed over them. My mother worked in law enforcement all my life. She would read The Boston Globe to us every morning. She didn’t realize at the time she was scaring me. In her mind she was just educating her children. The articles she read were filled with violent attacks throughout the city. It was awful, I was terrified. At that time she moved us to a “neutral” part of town. It was an area right beside The Boston Symphony and Christian Science. These areas were ok no matter what your race. They were not perfect, just a little safer than some other hoods. I remember suffering a beating at the hands of a white woman when I was only 9 years olds. It was in this “safe” area. My mother took her to court and the judge dismissed the charges. It was very confusing. If the same situation happened today she would have went to jail. I also remember the segregation of the schools. That was a horrific time in Boston. White folks in South Boston was not having it. They would line up (grown folks) when the busses came and throw rocks at the kids. I was a child and (still to this day) do not understand this level of hatred. Fast forward to the present. Boston has grown as a city. I am proud of the strides we have made. The invisible lines still exist, however the consequences are not as severe if you cross over them. My son was able to walk through the same neighborhood where rocks were thrown to attend South Boston High 30 years later.

[@sfr2107]

😔😔 I'm also grateful for whatever progress we can achieve. People forget to be grateful in the pursuit of equality. The pain can be blinding to the progress.

[@marissamalfeasance]

yup. when my mom moved here from england, she was in high school. it was the first time she had ever been called the n word in her life.

[@philipbadiz6189]

@@marissamalfeasance somehow, that still doesn't make the UK less racist.

[@pearllove2789]

Im still here. I grew in the 70's. It was bad then. Not as bad now. Cause you can walk in South Boston now.

[@JordanWilliams-ix2td]

@DonkeyKing Sniffedsomehair What power do black people have to be racist? & Actually black people are some of the most loving accepting people, alot of the hate & ignorance in my area is mostly from white people so can't relate

[@kmillz7309]

A “Negrameter” 😭😭

[@friendlywobbly9903]

He said "I'm-already-tracometer"

[@garamabe6891]

When you live in Boston then visit another city in the West or South you immediately feel the love from random people.

[@MattCurrieImprov]

Northeast is one of the most beautiful places, yet has some of the worst people. I’m from Maine and It’s been a tough pill to swallow but it truly is the case. Now I’m just saving up for a place I can get in the woods and play my music.

[@intellectualcucumber]

Secularism took a toll on morality in the Northeast.

[@MrNanah38]

It's called implicit racism They dont know it exist because they dont experience it the only people who knows are the ones who experience it.

[@NegritaBrujita]

Hogwash. It’s called pretending. Playing dumb. Saying the most outrageous statements like I don’t feel racism...Implicit racism or bias is a new code term being used, like white fragility to confuse. White people are very aware of racism because it’s a part of their behaviour, their code.

[@BDLrome]

Sainte Touré Right! Talking about they don’t experience it !? Out of all those whites you telling me not 1 heard a racist comment.

[@Unlimited-D-Works]

Sainte Touré I’m honestly disappointed in you guys as a black man. Saying white people are racists is just honestly disgusting for you to be saying shit like that. I’ve been to plenty of white areas. Can’t tell the difference accept it’s cleaner. White people dont say any type of racial comments when I speak to them. Don’t know what you losers trying to start a race war are talking about. All of my black friends never experienced it here in Florida.

[@theoriginal8106]

Uhmmm yeah Boston is racist AF. I went to a restaurant THREE TIMES in the North End, and all three times I was told that the kitchen was closed (they were prepping for dinner) but there where other (WHITE!) patrons seated and at one point one person was in the middle of PLACING and order. The first two times I guess I was in denial and thought that the folks that were there had wrapped up their meals... whatever. That third time though when the guy was about to order, he stopped and looked confused for for a sec after hearing the host tell me that the kitchen was closed. I never went back. I’m from NY and would travel to Mass for work, the north end has some of the best Italian food I’ve had in the US, but that experience left a bad taste in my mouth.

[@BDLrome]

What restaurant? Say their name.

[@prateek752]

Name and shame

[@Houlgravely]

I'll take $500 for Shit That Didn't Happen.

[@andersonstevie904]

You just left, without saying anything? That's the problem, soft ass people like you. You have rights.

[@andersonstevie904]

@@BDLrome see, people like him are the problem, he just left without saying a damn thing, and didn't even say the name of the restaurant.

[@Misschinkee]

So true.. Im a filipina.. And I used to be an intern at the hilton/Boston Hotel.... Me and my friends (there were 7 of us) went to a karaoke bar in Woburn...we were minding our own business... Then the guys on the other table started to yell at us.. Asking for our numbers... When we didn't respond... They started to yell very rude things at us... They were laughing at us... And they were telling us to go back were we came from... My friend started crying.. So we went home early...It was a very unpleasant experience.... Oh and btw.. I lived in 3 other different states after that (ME, FL and SC) and I never experienced anything like it again in those other states....

[@missmisery8612]

Woburn is messed up. I have relatives who live there so I'm very familiar with the area, and I've seen so many examples of racism in its restaurants, shops, grocery stores, outside. It's horrible. I'm so sorry that happened to you.

[@JMBBrasil]

Janie Barrera that’s really scary.

[@JMBBrasil]

I’m Brazilian and I went trough something similar at a 7 eleven once, in San Diego California. I was with a friend from Argentina, and this big white guy asked for my number. I said ‘ no, not interested.” Then he started screaming at me “ USA number one” and “ go back to Brazil then” it was surprising and offensive but..I think we who’re having so much fun that we just laugh at him, and left the store. We also said no, USA is not the best, it’s not number one. And what a weird obsession, like there was ever a competition..lol That guy definitely never left his country.

[@DevilJin01]

Along with racism, that's typical men going into defense mode when you deny them affection.

[@billenclosed1649]

So you're blaming the entire city of Boston for the actions of a few idiots in Woburn one time? Whaaaaa? Boston has one of the largest asian populations in the country. I'm a white guy and one time I was in China and a guy yelled at me, so China is racist.

[@CassiusClam]

Man that Jurassic Park analogy took me out ☠🤣

[@jlj5487]

They don’t know because the city is deeply segregated.

[@johnsreactions6658]

JL J It’s not segregated, people choose to live with their own people. You think black people cant make their own choice and would rather live in a white neighborhood?

[@jlj5487]

Nike The Great Migration starting in 1916. Red Summer of 1919. White flight. Suburbia. Factories moving to the suburbs starting in 1920 Inner cities. Redlining. Freeways cutting through black neighborhoods with no feeder roads to give them access. Cars instead of public transportation. Look up what happened to the tram lines. Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974) No, they didn’t want to be burned, lynched, and redlined (which used government money to subsidize the mortgages of white families, which had the effect of keeping prices of homes in the suburbs out of reach for those who didn’t get government kickbacks and kept it that way since destroying the value of those homes would leave those homeowners destitute) then had all jobs moved out and freeways that benefitted only those living on the outskirts of town since freeways without feeder roads both destroy huge chunks of neighborhoods and make those freeways an obstacle to get around rather than an asset to the neighborhood it throws a huge wall in the midst of. Look up Levittown and segregation. There’s a video of the residents of one of the Levittowns protesting the black families that tried to move in. There’s currently a Second Great Migration going on. This time from North to South. The North insulated itself from the lessons they needed to learn how to get along with their black neighbors, lessons they had to learn for Germans, Irish, and Italians back when those were hated groups who were lazy and criminal and refused to learn English.

[@icecoldpierre]

Thank you JL J. People just don't want to see the long and varied history of segregation in America.

[@jlj5487]

icecoldpierre Yes, no one teaches what actually happened to explain why things are the way that they are today. Segregation isn’t history. It never ended. Redlining, ignoring the racism of the entire country, and Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974) ensured that it continue on to this day in cities like Boston that have inner cities that keep black and white from living close enough to each other to ever have to consider sharing a water fountain or a lunch counter. This special mentions that Atlanta is considered the most welcoming of black people. Atlanta. The city Sherman marched through. Brown v Board only addressed cities like Atlanta where the races live closer together. Milliken v. Bradley ensured that cities with inner cities never integrated. Most inner cities were created in 1919 and all during the 1920s following the Great Migration of black people from the racist South to the supposedly welcoming North (but actually also racist) and persist to this day in the North and a couple of Southern cities like New Orleans. With gentrification in the North and more job opportunities in the South pushing black people out of Northern cities entirely prompting the Second Great Migration, the country will soon be segregated by race with POC living in the South and white people living in the North. And it will be interesting and hopefully not scary to see what happens when that does happen.

[@ibenzawla]

That's exactly what came to my the one and only time I've been to Boston. I found it to be so divided behind racial and class lines. I also found it to be less welcoming to POC even when compared to the South which remains my favorite place to visit in America.

[@kermitdfrogz]

“How do you know (it’s not a racist city)” “I don’t feel it” Translation: I don’t feel the effects.... the ultimate sign of a racist city.

[@christianjames4698]

I don’t experience it

[@user-uj3zk2cx8t]

I don't experience it. So how can it be racist

[@marcusgiles6806]

I had my biggest racist experience in Boston. Leaving the club going to get the car, A white boy bumped into me. I guess he thought he was tough since he had three of his friends with him. He thought I was alone. So he began to talk crap. Little did he know, that I was going to get the SUV to pick up three basketball players and two football players. Long story short, he’ll think twice before he runs up on another black man calling him names and threatening him. That was the best ass whipping I’ve ever given out.

[@dominickgibbs1383]

Marcus Giles good job

[@samgeurdi6351]

So in conclusion you felt good about finally being able to beat this guy because he was white? Is this some reverse racism against white people and feeling superior about it as some bragging right? Instead of not fighting and being the better citizen being an example to others you just dived in their with your friends and had a good laugh after how you’ll beat some white kids? Wow racism exist alright and it’s not just the white people dishing it out either. The black community might complain about racism but they sure like to bathe in the same glorious endeavors to feel good about themselves in the end. Racism is not just a white thing.

[@dominickgibbs1383]

Sam Geurdi True. But it was a ass whooping well deserved

[@godlife3149]

Good job that's what those baby Dick's racist piece of s*** get lol great work keep it up

[@antjack6192]

I’m from the Deep South and Boston is more racist than down there!

[@terrelparris8642]

Boston is very racist. When Bill Russell moved in the suburbs after being drafted, some of his neighbors protested. I had a personal experience back in the 80's. I was there for a conference and when l attempted to check in my hotel, they claimed that l did not have a reservation. After dealing with management, my reservation was honored. I did threaten to take legal action.

[@773SleepyHollow]

Yep... when Bill Russell's jersey number was retired by the Celtics, he refused to have a public ceremony, because his loyalty and affection was reserved for the Celtics organization, not the city of Boston, where "fans" treated him horribly throughout his career.

[@MrPaulrael]

Ohio is pretty racist like that, too. They straight up call u slurs but everyone silently reminds you that you’re different

[@LadeeHornet93]

Every state and city is racist, some just more so then others.

[@MrPaulrael]

LadeeHornet93 yes, and Ohio is racist more so than other places in this country. Ashtabula, Ohio is the most racist place I’ve ever been to in America.

[@MrPaulrael]

Alex Kanyima Confederate flags everywhere. White ppl staring down ppl of color. I noticed the rule there was when two ppl meet eyes, the darker skinned person always looks away first.

[@chuckhockey9464]

My home state Iowa is the same way

[@shakithashumble-pie8294]

i hate going to parma

[@w4rhound65]

Sometimes i just wish it would stop the comedy shit and actually get gritty with this. Show people the full fledge hate to make people aware.

[@jekl_6749]

dank Network they would if they could

[@Tufarock]

@todd dyer beat me too it. Racism is alive and well for everyone to see right here on KZbin.

[@marlomills6800]

ME TOO! cause AINT NOTHIN funny about it.

[@rogerbrydon7215]

There are places for that, Roy Wood Jr. Isn't the one to do it though. It isn't his branding.

[@happytattycatty]

Watch a different show 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@kansasgoldilocks]

Well, duh, white people don't know it's racist because they don't experience it. That's why it's important for us to talk and listen to each other on a regular basis. This was a nicely done piece.

[@BunkerBlog]

Oh shut the fuck up. Any race can experience racism. Hell, how can you go on and say that white people can't experience racism when there's white people being forced off their property and murdered in South Africa every day for being white (Oh, wait, you just deny that exists, don't you?). There is more anti-white rhetoric in the media in the modern day than anti-black.

[@connoreaton5386]

How about asian people? Are they qualified as people of color to make a determination as to whether boston is a racist city? The most racist people ive ever met in my life has mostly been black people.

[@tonypham7181]

@@connoreaton5386 allot of the comments towards me is that asians arent considered part of the colored because they do well. Then I throw out that I'm Asian but they still dont want to associate with me due to where I stand because I'm a banana apparently. The way I see it, it's a class issue not really a race issue.

[@RedDotInABlueState91]

Racism isn't any more or less common in Boston than most other major cities in the country, and I love how this video makes it appear as if the only type of racism that is existent or heard of is white people towards black people. I watched the whole video, all the interviews of select black people, that's terrific you had an agenda. Oh and heads up: Black Lives Matter is more racist than the whole city of Boston.

[@rachelrhea6453]

@@BunkerBlog what does South Africa have to do with citizens in Boston? Stop trying to redirect the issue blacks in america are treated different than whites. Latinos in america are treated different than whites, etc. You can't pretend like it doesn't exists anymore and that we live in a perfect nation

[@jaygee8969]

It took Boston 44 yrs to honor Bill Russell with a statue even tho he brought 11 championships to the city!

[@swicheroo1]

I spent one week in Boston. At a hotel. For a national conference. My roommate was black. We basically spent the whole conference together and mostly ditched the presentations--walking through the city. I will tell you that I was uncomfortable with the way that my friend was treated. Sometimes it was subtle. It was never in-your-face. But the racism was there. And it began the moment we walked into the lobby of our 5 Star hotel.

[@charlesstuart7290]

This is the long list of "I came to Boston for a week end and really felt uncomfortable even nothing happened - but I could feel the tension" "meme. If you felt "uncomfortable in the Back Bay, Newbury St, or by the Public Gardens, in a big liberal college town without cause, there is something wrong with you.

[@charlesstuart7290]

I assume you were in the Back Bay where most of the hotels are which is a big student and tourist area. If you can't give any concrete examples of Boston racism, maybe it was more paranoia than reality. You didn't say where you came from, but if I was a Black person I might be more paranoid in New York City that has had over a dozen of unjustified murders of innocent Black people by the police in the last few years. Boston is not the magic kingdom (as no cities are) but I believe we've come up next to zero in these type of homicides.

[@charlesstuart7290]

@SocraticMindThinker 101 Why don't you enlighten us instead of throwing off cryptic ad-homonym attacks?

[@charlesstuart7290]

@SocraticMindThinker 101 You said nothing about my alleged "nothing".

[@MenTaLLyMenTaL]

I'd like to mention that me, as an Indian who lived in Boston suburbs for a few years, did not feel unwelcome or that people were racist at all. But maybe my experience varies from that of a Black person and maybe the suburbs are different. But I think the key to getting along is to stop carrying an insecurity that you might be unwelcome.

[@TheYasminarf]

White man: No it's not racist.... I don't *feel it* Yep defiantly a logical answer 😂😂😂

[@Astral_thee_God]

Bigbang is your bias’s bias and you know it Big Bang is my bias lmao Have a good day

[@TheYasminarf]

Fair Strife I did not expect such a comment 😄. Much love to you 💜💜

[@billyeff1775]

Maybe out of all the white ppl he knows none of them are racist.

[@TheEasybeat]

Defiantly

[@everythingisconnected7932]

lol.

[@Classof2020]

It’s sad being a resident of Boston and seeing our city portrayed like this. My fellow residents need to be the change we want them to be. Racism has no place in our lives, let’s end it once and for all.

[@Classof2020]

Let kindness shine within and take route throughout

[@Classof2020]

Lead from the heart and let true kindness come through in its simplest form.

[@Classof2020]

@Jay Caponigro What do you think about my comment?

[@rubeng.2432]

@Jay Caponigro pfft Trump 2020 yeah if you want 4 more years of hmm let's see the list, tweet tantrums, a bunch of non sense suggestions, literal viruses floating around, a bunch of crazy accusations that are more than likely true, abuse of power and oh yeah a bunch of videos of🗣️📢 WHITE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT TRUMP THAT ARE BEING OPENLY RACIST TOWARDS ANYBODY WHO ISNT WHITE then sure Trump 2020 lol oh and don't forget the riots if you want more of those 👍

[@Classof2020]

@Jay Caponigro I didn’t intend to make my comment about racism in Boston to veer into politics. Can we please stay away from politics? Thank you!

[@valerieautobee7995]

Racist enough for me, the daughter of a full blood Cherokee father who served in the Navy to be bullied in elementary school, bused to an all black neighborhood at age 12 and a victim of racist comments at work in 2021. Oh and the dangerous neighbor who hated us for existing.

[@jflo7674]

Rude and racist. I was there last October for a few days and I found everyone being very rude and looking at me and my family funny. And I don't live far from it. I'm from Connecticut.

[@Horny_Fruit_Flies]

"Rude and racist." - That's the entire USA.

[@fruitsarelife148]

Just stay away from whites and you are good 👍

[@advocado7373]

yup, ghetto is your choice I guess

[@jaredgreenberg4063]

Shoutout 203

[@rlee1231]

How is Connecticut? I’m from Cleveland. I’m in a mixed neighborhood and I’ve lived in all Black neighborhoods and predominantly white neighborhoods as well. Most of them won’t say anything to you but you will get some odd stares sometimes. I do know of some people here that have had bad experiences though.

[@ZachVanHarrisJR]

"Everybody Loves Raymond. Everybody Hates Chris." - Zach Van Harris JR

[@dorcasb2194]

Zach Van Harris JR 😂😂😂😂

[@yeseniaboix6575]

Zach Van Harris JR That's clever. So true!

[@zwagig1761]

Well said.

[@ppward1234]

My Nigga!

[@timothymartino4716]

But yet everyone loves Raymond came out first though that's your people's fault for titling the name and Accepting the acting jobs GTFO

[@StevenC32]

Ask Bill Russell how racist the city of Boston is, while he was winning 8 straight championships for the Celtics back in the 60s, he received unbelievable racism from the fans.

[@drissbrowser558]

It's gotten a lot better since then

[@annadraper6]

@@drissbrowser558 NO IT HASN'T

[@dwyurr]

@kommisar you mean did the older people who were racist to Bill Russell pass down their shitbrained racist beliefs to their children? yeah obviously they did, as is the case with all racists. nobody is talking about politics besides you, moron. issue is racism not left or right politics but your shitbrained belief system is only based on this

[@drissbrowser558]

@@annadraper6 yes it has. Redlining used to be legal, schools were segregated, races wouldn't even think about interacting with each other. and hate crimes were very common. I understand Boston still has issues, but cmon you're in denial if you don't think Boston has gotten a lot better.

[@annadraper6]

@@drissbrowser558 you poor dear, I'm Boston born and bred and no it hasn't changed. Go and enjoy to a red sox championship celebration and tell me how that works for you.

[@isaackouadio4227]

As a black man, the question I ask myself is : What did we do to be hated by almost all ethnic groups ? The funniest or saddest thing is that even other peoples who suffer racism are also racist towards us. It's crazy. We are not comfortable anywhere. We are not comfortable on other continents because they do not love us and we are not comfortable in Africa because the same people who do not love us come to sow trouble in Africa.

[@djeanpierre]

We are hated because of white colonizer mindset and also because we are a genetic threat to their existence.

[@elefintndaroom8629]

Well it clearly shows that most whites have the OPTION to see or acknowledge racism it's up to them and how they are feeling that day! I wish we all could do that!

[@Walawalacookie]

I wanted to say something to add to what you said, but honestly there's nothing more that needs to be said. You pretty much hit the nail on the head when it comes to white privlage. Being able to ignore it entirely.

[@Walawalacookie]

@kommisar Do you always get so bent out of shape from reading a strangers opinion online?

[@sticky4444]

Since I’m from Massachusetts I love Boston but I definitely get why it gets the reputation it has. Massachusetts just being a very predominantly white state has a lot to do with it.

[@notsure6187]

XSeanX Massachusetts doesn't have this "rep". not anymore that tons of other states. Trevor Noah wants it to for some reason.

[@treytonketola6469]

XSeanX Boston’s actually a fairly diverse city.

[@notsure6187]

there's about 14 other states that are more white.

[@fabiancruz7123]

Must be a Boston issue. I'm from Worcester

[@kentuckycriedfricken_]

NPCafro They just explained why....

[@brianalee6613]

I’m not a person to normally comment on videos but I felt the urge to. I’m born and raised from Cambridge, a very diverse and educated place. I’ve been here my entire life but for some reason I feel like a stranger. I remember my mom (who came here for college) telling me stories about the racism she endured just going to school. People throwing things, even someone striking her. Then when I was born ironically on the day of the Charles Stuart case (October 23rd) and she feared for my father while there was a manhunt for a black male based from an entire lie. For a long time growing up I never realized racism until my early teen years when I discovered the REAL Boston. Doing research on many different things from busing to currently gentrification that is pushing POC out of the city. It is quite amazing how Boston systematically has hidden their motives. The schools, primarily colleges, give a false acceptance of diversity but it’s a disguise. The city itself is very segregated still and it shows once you ride the one bus from Harvard Square to Dudley Square. A whole new world of poverty, drug abuse and POC that are tucked away from the white privileged areas of the Financial District, Seaport, South Boston, Fenway, Newbury Street, etc. I can go on and on about the racism in Boston. For a long period of time it made me confused, sad then angry. But now I’m finding understanding. I know this city and country in its entirety will change when the narratives and stigmas of certain racial backgrounds change. When we acknowledge the problem instead of trying to continuously ignore and sweep it under the rug. When people look around in the corporate workplace. When people take the time to have compassion, empathy and humility.

[@sidney4022]

This is terrible, is there anything being done to address this injustice?

[@thescribbler495]

Sidney Suen In Boston, yes. Boston is doing more than any other city to make things equal and the city has accomplished a lot since this article was written.

[@krystiankornilowicz4577]

i agree man, i go to school in roxbury right near dudley. Since my whole life has been in that area i didn't see the racism against POC. I worked as a lifeguard in southie and it was crazy how racist these people were. one of my friends who is black was guarding while i was on lunch and when I came back a old white lady was fucking recording him and muttering slurs under her breath. It's gonna take a long time but as a city, it'll eventually change

[@erikjarandson5458]

_"I know this city and country in its entirety will change when the narratives and stigmas of certain racial backgrounds change. When we acknowledge the problem instead of trying to continuously ignore and sweep it under the rug. When people look around in the corporate workplace. When people take the time to have compassion, empathy and humility."_ The intersectional mafia really did a job on you, didn't they? "Narratives" and "stigmas" have nothing to do with it. Everyone "looking around" and having "compassion, empathy and humility" is nice. Really; if we treat each other better as individuals, it can make a lot of things much better for many people. It won't change the fundamental causes of inequality, though. The fundamental cause isn't that some individuals are hanging on to their prejudices. It's not even that a lot of individuals are doing it. They're nasty when you encounter them, but still only individuals. The problem is the structure of the economy. It's designed to keep people locked into whichever class they were born into. It keeps the rich rich and the poor poor. Even if you remove all racial factors, even if everyone became literally unable to tell the difference between black and white, blacks would remain the more discriminated against on average, because they would remain over-represented among the poor, and the strongest structural and institutional discrimination is against the poor. Racism has mostly been driven out of the major structures and institutions. Laws no longer discriminate on race, but instead prohibit racial discrimination. Institutions practice preferential treatment of minorities. Corporations go out of their way to hire minorities. I'm not saying that racism is gone, or that it shouldn't be fought, wherever it's found. I'm saying that it has been weakened to the point where, if racism was the main reason for poverty among blacks, we should've seen vast improvements. We should've seen blacks rise out of poverty by the millions. I'm saying that other factors have become bigger and more fundamental problem, even for the situation of racial minorities. When social mobility is gone for everyone, then the lack of social mobility for blacks isn't due to racism. Any effort targeted specifically at helping racial minorities out of poverty will fail, because focusing on race makes it impossible to target the real underlying cause. Make the economy fair for _everyone,_ and it'll be fair for, well, everyone, whether black, colored or white. Some people will loose on this, though, and loose a lot. They're the one's arguing that some patching of the rules here, some attitude adjustment there, and some "cultural change" everywhere will fix things. They're trying to convince people that, if we just "check" our "privileges", eradicate "micro-aggression", and use the "right" words for everything, it'll all be fine. For them, it's vital that people believe that the causes of evil are found in our personal and social behavior, in our attitudes and views, in our language and culture. They'll do anything and everything to conceal that the real causes are economic.

[@iamace3993]

@@erikjarandson5458 I would agree with you if you weren't talking about America--the country with Chattel slavery, jim crow, new jim crow, red lining, ghetto loans,prison industrial complex (new slavery),war on drugs and on an on etc... This country was founded on discrimination. Black was a lowest class (the dalit). They were not afforded much of anything, not even the protection of their property... So saying that if you couldn't tell that black people were not black they would still be in same situation is CRAZY!! lol

[@karlschneider9479]

Boston earned that reputation during the busing crisis in the 70's. It was mostly relegated to Southie and Charlestown. I grew up in a mixed neighborhood in Cambridge, Ma and a lot of my friends were black and my step family is black. The Celtics were the 1st team to draft a black player and have a black head coach and the Bruins were the 1st to to integrate the NHL.

[@jturn365401]

I drove a 18 wheeler for 22yrs in 48 states and Canada and Boston Massachusetts and Wisconsin was the racist

[@ikeman9784]

What? I use to party in Eau Claire Wi back in the days it wasn't too bad lol