Boston was known as "the most racist city in the North" for decades. School integration was a worse trainwreck here than almost anywhere else. (And the way it was implemented particularly saddled the Irish-American ghettos with trouble, and left the comfortable suburbanites entirely undisturbed. But classism has always been far more vigorous in Boston than racism.) Even now, I'd go check the police records before considering hosting a "black" conference in Southie...
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Date: 2011-05-11 07:44 pm (UTC)