T or F: Boston is pretty racist for a Northern metropolitan city
Boston is an unintentionally segregated city. The neighborhood identity is very strong in Boston and Boston suburbs, and when the city forced busing in the 1970s it did so in the name of racial desegregation,
but it was a complete disaster that the public school system has still yet to truly recover from (despite the policy ending in 1988). The social result (in addition to riots) was a strong antipathy towards Black and Hispanic people from low income predominantly White Irish communities, like South Boston.
Whether it's any more racist than anywhere else has always been a point of debate, and in particular prominent athletes always claimed it was, like Bill Russell (and he had more than enough reason to).
So, from those perspectives, Boston is as racist a city as any, perhaps more so than cities in other parts of the country that went through the crucible of civil rights. But, then you have counter-factual evidence given that Boston (and Massachusetts) is the most Democratic state in the United States, and Boston and the towns around Boston are considered amongst the most liberal in the country. Also, for a predominantly white electorate, the state resoundingly went to Obama in 2008 and 2012, I'd imagine it was the strongest white vote for Obama along with Vermont and Maine. Further, those predominantly White, second-generation Irish communities have broken down over the last 20 years, either catering to a university crowd and young professionals. The Irish identity is more diffused than it was, and the people who are becoming adults now have little memory of the race riots of the 1970s and 1980s.
On the cartoon ... I
think that it's trying to portray the intruder as a racist... and therefore the secret service completely lax. But... I can't really tell, pretty weak.
