Why is Boston so famous for its racism?! (Webster, Oxford: landlords, camp)

[JacksonPanther]

I'm shaking my head at equating getting an icey poured on your head as a little child, versus what black people had to live through.

[Bridge781]

Originally Posted by JacksonPanther

I'm shaking my head at equating getting an icey poured on your head as a little child, versus what black people had to live through.

See comments like this irritate me. Having an icey poured over your head as a kid by someone you don’t know could be pretty traumatizing. Of course that one incident is less than what black people have experienced as a whole. But did you ever have an icey poured over your head for no reason?

Sometimes things that happen to us as kids can really stick with us and shape us. I can remember in 7th grade someone I didn’t know put gum in my hair. It was awful, I had never spoken to them. I was very shy and timid. I also had a group of very tough girls I didn’t know approach me. I will say that the we’re all black and in a grade ahead of me. I was waiting for my mom to pick up. They approached me and one said, yo are you the one that’s been talkin all the sh*t about me. My heart dropped. At that moment I really thought I was about to get beat up. I was like um what and she repeated herself. I was like uhhh I think you have the wrong person. At that moment one of her friends laughed and said oh don’t listen to her she’s just kidding and pushed her away. I was so relieved but still horrified. I’m sure there are kids who did actually get beat up for no reason. I’m just saying don’t gaslight someone’s feelings. You don’t want us to do it to you right ?

[JacksonPanther]

Originally Posted by Bridge781

See comments like this irritate me. Having an icey poured over your head as a kid by someone you don’t know could be pretty traumatizing. Of course that one incident is less than what black people have experienced as a whole. But did you ever have an icey poured over your head for no reason?

I’m just saying don’t gaslight someone’s feelings. You don’t want us to do it to you right ?

I would bet money that the kid who got an icey poured on him and subsequently wrote off all black people, had much worse things done to him by white people, yet he never wrote them off. He treated them as individuals.

[Justabystander]

Originally Posted by JacksonPanther

I would bet money that the kid who got an icey poured on him and subsequently wrote off all black people, had much worse things done to him by white people, yet he never wrote them off. He treated them as individuals.

Like I wrote, how about his grandfather who owned a grocery store being left for dead twice; once thrown down the cellar stairs of his store, and once on Washington Street after being robbed? Enough for you Panther? Because the icee story ( my little brother was also spit on) is just the tip of it. I am a lawyer who also does civil rights work, and that **** has never happened to me by white people.

[Bridge781]

He never said he wrote off black people.

Another example of that particular neighborhood is my grandmother was walking home from church and a young girl knocked her down and stole her purse. My grandmother was nothing but kind to anyone and minded her own business.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by JacksonPanther

I'm shaking my head at equating getting an icey poured on your head as a little child, versus what black people had to live through.

If you wanna have any type of conversation with Bridge you have to meet them where they’re at.. Bridge isn’t really the most enlightened on how racism works historical and systemically. Rather, Bridge focuses on perceived interpersonal act/micro aggression and things like that. Bridge thinks that’s an accurate bellwether for racism.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by JacksonPanther

How many 90yo people do you know exactly? For someone to "hate Germans" because of ww2 they would have to have been at least 10yo to be able to form this lasting opinion. So born in 1931...

Right this is a transparent lie.

But I did have a friend of German ancestry in elementary school and she absolutely did get called a Nazi. It’s a bad thing but it’s not at all similar to what blacks have gone through in this country.. if she hadn’t told us all she was German for years on end we’d never know that she was. Black people don’t have that cute little benefit.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by Justabystander

Like I wrote, how about his grandfather who owned a grocery store being left for dead twice; once thrown down the cellar stairs of his store, and once on Washington Street after being robbed? Enough for you Panther? Because the icee story ( my little brother was also spit on) is just the tip of it. I am a lawyer who also does civil rights work, and that **** has never happened to me by white people.

You don’t sound like a lawyer who does civil right work and if you are I feel bad for your clients.

[Bridge781]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

If you wanna have any type of conversation with Bridge you have to meet them where they’re at.. Bridge isn’t really the most enlightened on how racism works historical and systemically. Rather, Bridge focuses on perceived interpersonal act/micro aggression and things like that. Bridge thinks that’s an accurate bellwether for racism.

I didn’t even have the icey experience. I’m just saying I can see where it could be traumatic for a kid.

[Boston Shudra]

Originally Posted by JacksonPanther

How many 90yo people do you know exactly? For someone to "hate Germans" because of ww2 they would have to have been at least 10yo to be able to form this lasting opinion. So born in 1931...

Hatred can absolutely be passed down from one generation to another.