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Philadelphia 102 46.58%
Boston 117 53.42%
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Old 01-27-2011, 11:05 PM
 
Location: BMORE!
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boston almost sound like a southern city with all the racism.
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Old 01-28-2011, 12:52 AM
 
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Boston's full of cornballs. You ever see the departed?
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Old 01-28-2011, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Boston, MA
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I find that to be completely untrue. Hell is eternal and no city in the states can top that. Hell also has much greater density and its diversity is pretty much unparalleled. Its mass transit is probably the best in the worlds, because your flayed flesh and tears are spread throughout its infinities of torment so you are actually already everywhere immediately and forever.
Hell has seven different levels too. Neither Boston nor Philly can boast that many levels.
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Old 01-28-2011, 09:27 AM
 
Location: Boston, MA
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I was talking about city proper
Most of the Asians in Boston either live in the city or directly adjacent to it. I live in Dorchester and my street is easily 20% Viet Namese. We also have a huge Chinese population.
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Old 01-28-2011, 09:32 AM
 
Location: Denver
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boston almost sound like a southern city with all the racism.
If that were the case, I'd welcome it. The Southern cities generally tend to be very accepting of blacks...it's the rural areas where things get dicey.

As it was mentioned before, a great deal of the black/white clash in Boston is involved with the working class whites. It's a very dark past, especially in regards to things like the busing riots...but I would like to think it is okay now. It's certainly much better than back then haha.

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Boston's full of cornballs. You ever see the departed?
Really?

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Most of the Asians in Boston either live in the city or directly adjacent to it. I live in Dorchester and my street is easily 20% Viet Namese. We also have a huge Chinese population.
Not to mention Quincy aka Chinatown South.
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Old 01-28-2011, 09:45 AM
 
Location: Boston, MA
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This is why I don't particularly care for Boston. As the lady in the second article says, "No matter how bad things get for Blacks down South, at least we don't live in Boston."



Resources: Database: "Divided We Stand. Is Boston Racist?" Boston Magazine (November 2002)

At 100, Boston NAACP Confronts City’s Mixed Past | WBUR
Gimme a break! New York has far more racial incidents marring it's history than Boston could ever possibly approach. That's all you have been hearing about for the last forty years. Murders and assaults based on race. Yet New York is somehow able to brush off the moniker of a city with a racial undertone.
The reason is that Boston is not supposed to have racial strife. It is where the abolition movement began and it is the birthplace of modern liberalism.

BTW the article states that "with a 50% population of people of color, they have never elected a black mayor". Boston has never had a black population over 25%. I wonder what other lies are in the article.

And before you post inflammatory photos you really should do your homework on the photo you post. The person with the flag (Joe Rakes) was seventeen at the time and he was swinging the flag pole around, he wasn't attempting to spear the black man. The black man is Ted Landsmark, who still lives in the racial hellhole that is Boston.
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Old 01-28-2011, 09:53 AM
 
Location: Boston, MA
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That is the billion dollar question that me and my friends have never figured out. In 2008, Obama barely edged out Clinton in Boston proper and actually LOST Middlesex County (Cambridge), where his alma mater, Harvard University, is located.

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Of course it couldn't have been the fact that the people of Middlesex County didn't think that Obama was qualified to be POTUS now could it. It was certainly the color of his skin.
Can you explain to my wife, who never has had a racist thought in her life, why she was being racist when she voted for Hilary in the primary?
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Old 01-28-2011, 09:57 AM
 
Location: Boston, MA
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Boston's full of cornballs. You ever see the departed?
That was a movie killa. Or maybe Philly is full of Paulie's from Rocky
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Old 01-28-2011, 10:01 AM
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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Of course it couldn't have been the fact that the people of Middlesex County didn't think that Obama was qualified to be POTUS now could it. It was certainly the color of his skin.
Can you explain to my wife, who never has had a racist thought in her life, why she was being racist when she voted for Hilary in the primary?
She was being sexist for voting her because she was a woman.
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Old 01-28-2011, 10:03 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Not a fan of Boston, (mostly its sports teams) but I have to say Boston.
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