Polite Racism? (Boston: restaurants, mall, bars)

[Whatsnext75]

It shouldn't matter how bad someone has had it in previous generations. It is no long this generations problem! How many more decades are we going to hear about this for? Same with Native Americans, I'm sorry for what happened to them long ago, but let's move on. It's time. It seems like many of them want to remain angry. Everyone is always going to be behind someone. A white person from Winchester, andover (see above) is likely behind someone else in the world. Life can be unfair.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by CaseyB

Miu, "Shanghai" meant drugging and kidnapping sailors for service on ships bound for Chinese ports.

BostonBornMassMade - If there was money to be made in a Black focused station, there would be one. It is not racism, but making a profit.

How can black radio stations thrive when there is this going on? They need to be able to promote club parties! This is a 2012. Article in the boston globe by lawrence harmon.

‘Nightclub apartheid’ - Opinion - The Boston Globe

'Boston promoter Bruno Cesar has been planning parties and social events here for more than 15 years. Club managers quiz him endlessly on the type of music to be played and the type of crowd it is likely to attract. That’s not the case in New York, Miami, or other cities where his events draw integrated crowds, said Cesar.

“Why can’t people in Boston just go to a club and have fun?’’ he asked.'

They could profit if boston was not politely racist. Radio stations find it easier to profit with white music here because the income disparity in boston in so high between racist and whites hold so much civic and economic clout. If boston didnt have the black numbers there would have been a black owned black station here for 7 years. They sold out because they had poor signal reception and national downsizing by radio one. The posters on here ask for the deal on racism yet find a "its not racist" loophole at every turn!!

[btownboss4]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

How can black radio stations thrive when there is this going on? They need to be able to promote club parties! This is a 2012. Article in the boston globe by lawrence harmon.

‘Nightclub apartheid’ - Opinion - The Boston Globe

'Boston promoter Bruno Cesar has been planning parties and social events here for more than 15 years. Club managers quiz him endlessly on the type of music to be played and the type of crowd it is likely to attract. That’s not the case in New York, Miami, or other cities where his events draw integrated crowds, said Cesar.

“Why can’t people in Boston just go to a club and have fun?’’ he asked.'

They could profit if boston was not politely racist. Radio stations find it easier to profit with white music here because the income disparity in boston in so high between racist and whites hold so much civic and economic clout. If boston didnt have the black numbers there would have been a black owned black station here for 7 years. They sold out because they had poor signal reception and national downsizing by radio one. The posters on here ask for the deal on racism yet find a "its not racist" loophole at every turn!!

You have to Remember A large portion (maybe a majority) of Black people in Boston are Carribean or African immigrants who do not share African American Culture.

[snatale1]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

As a Boston African American what were talking about is being the only east coast city to never have a black mayor.

How many Black people have run for mayor and lost? That doesn't even make sense! If a good person ran they'd have a chance regardless of race, c'mon.

Having no black owned or urban formatted radio stations.

What the hell is Jamn and Hot?

It means having highly limited train acces in the black sections of Mattapan Dorchester Hyde Park, Roxbury of even randolph, stoughton, everett, lynn and revere. It means the boston herald Obama cartoon.

So not spending BILLIONS in adding trains (because they just thrown them in the ground overnight, right?) is racist somehow? LOL!!!!!! Do all the White neighboorhoods have that? NOPE! and it's not wanted! The Obama Cartoon? Ever hear of freedom of speech? Also, Maybe you forgot Obama is as much White as he is Black. Your apparently upset that more things aren't being specifically controlled or catered to BLACK people, not to people in general... but to black people. What you've said is a PERFECT example of "Polite Racism". Sad. It's amazing how backwards the world still is.

[snatale1]

Originally Posted by Whatsnext75

I find Boston to be a very liberal place these days, hence no racism.

How does that make sense in any way? What does being Liberal have to do with it? Liberals are the ones bankrupting the middle class via over taxation to give it to all the minorities to creating a need for them and of course to secure votes, but doesn't operating that way show some racism to begin with? Can't they do stuff on their own without the government holding their hands up? I say Liberals are some of the most "Polite Racists" out there.

[495neighbor]

People in general do not self-identify by ethnicity as much around Boston as they do in other major US cities.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

You have to Remember A large portion (maybe a majority) of Black people in Boston are Carribean or African immigrants who do not share African American Culture.

True but at this point most of the blacks in boston are not foreign born but second or third generation and african americans are still slightly more populous than the immigrant group. People bot in the black neighborhoods dont u serstand this, which i think, being an african american myself, might have to do with african americans being more prone to self segregating. But i do see how that negatively impacts the numbers but generally pirate stations and urban leaning stations here incorporate a high degree of carribean flavor. That has worked very wellbas it does in nyc, its seems like a bit of a cop out. But, who knows maybe as time goes on and generations buy into african american culture as oppose to the recent immigrant tendency to migrate towards mainstream culture.

[Zara Ray]

Its called subtle racism. Its mainly a problem within 'liberal' northern and predominantly white identified cities. Southern cities have a history of being overtly racist, while northern cities are subtle. I have, as a black woman, seen and experienced years worth subtle racism within school, work, and in other instances of my social life while living in the NW in Seattle where I'm originally from.

[Whatsnext75]

Well most liberal people i know are not racists gainst people of color. They are the type of people who basically hate privileged and middle class whites because this group hasn't had to struggle much. They are the people who say happy indigenous people's day on columbus day yet scoff if someone says happy st Patricks day. They are sick of old white men. I am personally offended by these people.

[UKWildcat1981]

Being from an area that is politically liberal has nothing to with with social tolerance. LA is very liberal both socially and liberally and the Mexicans and Blacks don't get along very well there, lot of the Asians and Jews I met didn't like the black community much either. Racism everywhere man.. can't we all just get along lol