Alright, I'm done listening to this bullshit....
You guys are straight killin MY city left and right, and not one of you are from here originally. I originally wanted to steer clear of this thread as I thought it was kinda a stupid question ("where in Boston all the white women at????" and such). Get da fuck outta here....
First off, let me address Bosoxlady's quote. The Town was mostly bullshit. Charlestown is NOT the bank robbery capital of the country. There is also no way you could have a 5 minute car chase in the middle of the North End. In the movie they drive down my friends street, and the bank they rob is actually a laundramat around the corner. The streets are way too fuckin narrow to corner an SUV at 40 mph. Hollywood....
Now as for Boston being the capitol of racism in the East; Here's the view from someone born and bred here, 30 years in the making.
First, to the dude who asked where to find white women to date: The answer is the same as anywhere else. Ask a chick out and see if she's down. I've never had a problem and 97% of the women I have ever dated are white, which is kinda why i hang out on these boards....
As for racism. I will say yes, in some areas, it is MORE PREVALENT than others. Now here's the shit you outsiders DON'T KNOW and Hollywood shitheads don't convey in their shitty Boston movies: Racism is Everywhere.
Case in point: 10 months out of the year, the population of Boston doubles due to the 30 some odd schools of higher education within the metro area (over 120 in the state). You have kids from all over the country and TRUST ME, the moment they see you with a white girl, your gonna hear the occasional racist shit they were brought up with from whatever gutter ass part of the country they migrated from. Its Not Just Southie Irish.
I take offense to that statement PERSONALLY. Some of my closest boys are born and bred in Southie, and I'll knock anyone out that messes with em, and they got my back the same way. Allston, Charlestown, Cambridge, whatever, I got people everywhere and we all know people who will throw around the "N" word occasionally. It doesn't actually make em racist. Only to oversensitive brothas who think all white people are out to get em.
See, what you don't understand is, in Boston, you have to have a thick skin. If you don't, your not gonna survive, period. People shoot off at the mouth sometimes. It happens. However, you can't cry racism around here every time some white dude at a party says, "hey, what's up my nigger??" after doing a kegstand on the porch out back. They are just spouting off words that they have heard their grandparents use (while they were drinking) during their whole childhood and simply don't understand the power of the word. Also, don't believe I'm some kinda token motherfucker either. I'm just that dude that has to stay on the even keel and say, "bro, don't say that again in my presence, it's not fucking cool". Usually, that's the end of it as I'm in the house of someone I consider a friend and they got my back.
I could go on and on, but I think I got the message across. I'll end with saying to PettyJay that I don't even consider any part of Boston off limits. I have walked into the grungiest dive bars around Boston and never felt like people were gonna grab a noose and try to hang me. It's common knowledge that if you walk into a locals bar in southy, everyone turns toward the door. It's just a thing cause they usually know everyone that ever walks through the door. If they don't know you, it's not like they are thinking, who's that black guy. It's "who's that guy. I don't know that dude and it's a locals bar." I actually love how close nit the communities are. We keep to our own. Cliquey I know.
"A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
