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Like many cities was subjected to urban renewal at the hands of city leaders. Ok, urban renewal, yeah! Ok, it's like gentrification, it's like you know, get rid of the year, in the case of boston, renew efforts wiped out entire neighborhoods between eighteen, fifty seven and nineteen. Fifty nine by since west end was bulldozed, thirty blocks full of homes, where nine thousand people lived, where just gone developers bought the now clear of poor peoples, literally slanders yet a while, but the now cleared for people's homes, land for cheap and built highrise luxury apartments. Ok, great everybody. When everybody, when discarded were the working class, whites, scattered high, said everybody wins fair enough. Luckily, The discarded working whites were scattered all over the boston area and forced to pay higher rents. Heaven

to deal with the fact that the community generations had grown up and was now obliterated. Okay, so so there may then they may just those people who have to go to places in Boston, and then everyone's rents go go up. It's just a fucked up. I the same thing happened to to east east and neighbourhood, bulldoze lost logan airport They rebuilding what was being called new boston of K and the poor didn't really have a part in it, and every pore neighbourhood that they could be. Next all the urban renewal money went to the middle and upper classes rights than so the idea is essentially to just out like out wealth, the the poor people who then we'll be able to live there. Sort of I don't know what the over all plan is, I just know, basically of the rich up. We hope to reach up the developers

I'm an end. They wanna do shit. Man, you Al Qaeda network. Everyday stand. Has that right? so the poor family. Evelyn growing worse and worse. For many reasons, housing shortage is gentrification. Higher rents came from bulldozing the west indies, and crime rates went up more money was harder to come by housing projects felt disrepair and municipal services to pour neighborhoods all but vanished, get there. Now. where's that they had neighborhoods they grown up in and that they cherished fell into decay. This was the new boston for the poor living through destruction of community. girls, good son, it's the new basel super, let's new boss to everybody, bosnia, to point out to free for these. Guys over here, big arises for you, I'm to show your face. You guys will figured. I use my new boss love come on

as is common. When people cast aside, populism rose against new boston, the political rhetoric reflect Nineteen. Sixty three city, counselor Gabriel pinamonte, ran for mayor quote:. what turned down homes without replacing housing. For this same economic group, we have moved thousands of families with no thought no interest in providing suitable housing replacements. Progress doesn't have the right to apple over human beings that at all your leg that booboo he lost. I, but not prize that surprising, because all we should do is vote against our best right, then game. Louise day, hicks, an old school irish, catholic and chairperson of the Boston school committee Hicks father was a very respected man in south boston, elsner southie. Yet

and the most wealthy family man. There. Ok, whether he was the guy launder money to people like not under under the table, but leg is a bag. You can write. Banks are the same as those eighty that negotiated a luxury. Ladys. Basel, don't don't tell anybody, you don't know the design right down the line I I don't like me the ice alright, so it's going to be like a four percent. Don't look at me, focus on long tail, alright, yeah and if you'll fucking pay this, you know what habits. Do you don't look at me? You don't fucking pants, you know what happens. Ha goes on your credit. Is this a bank?

Sarah Louise road, the family name, a couple of years before the boston chapter of the n, a a c p had demanded an immediate public acknowledgement of the de facto segregation in the Boston public school system. Okay, they just wanted a decent education for their black children, an acknowledgement that their children are worse off. So that's all they want fair. They just want. school board to acknowledge pretty big ass black shortie big ass. Worse, a pretty big ask for of the thirteen black schools in Boston had health and safety problems so horrible. They were supposed to have been closed. Okay per pupil spending for black students was on average one hundred dollars less than white students right. That makes that that adds up with what you're saying the district employed, almost no african american teachers or administrators, and many why

Teachers were hostile and racist towards black student in Boston, loud jack was the massachusetts, yet of a minded manner. So in response to that of people get offended by that there are oh mary, like there are now. I somebody noises people we can have. We can have your who I consider to be your spokesmen bill. Bergamo and he'll tell you what's his jack savagery positive examples of racist, so in response dna a p. All the white school committee held a hearing right Ok, so they're all why they hold a hearing to to figure out research on, were let let's, let's listen to black people and what they want. So only invite white paper right, we'll figure it out, so they thought

that having a hearing would release the steam and then they would have to do anything like that was the plan right, ok, good, but eight hundred people came out to support. The a c p, some any that they had to turn almost all of them away cause wasn't enough right. Then the committee decided to do nothing. The white committee decided to do nothing, nothing right and, and some of why do something? But Louise major that didn't happen? Ok, they racism and segregation did not exist in the cradle of liberty. Ok, just past bostonians, a super into the hall of revolution- started here: rights, whether for it's a fucking, limited guy, we can do anything whatsoever of the liberty bell. There now like this, where the liberty trail forever, they have the freedom trail, levying ever lower level. What

lebanon worrying! Is that a yeah? That's what we do here. We live or of the place. I liberated last night down liberal liberty, liberty. The problem was the committee said black parents, amid the people are upset. You know there is a black parents are the reason that things are worse off in the black schools just, but that saying the black kits right for their saying that that the black parents of rain bad black kids. That down and they're not helping their kids with their education there not helping there, It's the education they're not allowed to provide them with now they're saying that that the kids' school, the black kids schools would be fine if the parents were better at helping the kids helping the kids, what if you help them with their homework and stuff? Oh okay, so, okay, alright,

they're just doesn't make Mozilla some guy. I know it's also not gonna go well right, hey I'm not getting our path. It's not great! Yeah! The black parents then decided to use the courts to get equal treatment that we're not I want to show you not granting and with my fuckin lawyer, K There were two citywide boycotts by black students to make the point so two days, no buckskins when the school. by nineteen. Sixty seven racial dissociation was looming and Louise did not approve and the people south Boston had had enough change rights. They ve got all the shit with the fuckin develops. happening available today, neighborhood they ve been through enough had been through their people. Louise made the argument that boston schools, being made quote the scapegoat were being made quote the scapegoat for those who have failed to solve the housing, economic and social problems of the black citizens. This is one of the four gotta be one of the first

because that is what happened so much now. Is that, like you just that the people who are the aggressors, paint themselves as the victims and then like the victim they like take you take the talking point away from the victims, or at least neutralize it by you, know, saying: you're, also a victim yeah look, I understand these black people are upset, but the white people have been through enough trying to deal with the black people. Yeah you'll get around Around the black people should understand this black people. You ve been so leave ably terrible to deal with the white paper on the way the with think of work. We shall, of course we shall, of course,. Louise said the chief schools in chinatown or a hundred percent chinese, the north and schools, were almost all italian emmy. South boston schools were irish, catholic and quote: we do not have aggregation in the boston schools,

yet even emerges northward means because she just said that Oh, you don't have segregation trade there. Also, Bulgaria, but then we don't got the segregation, look she's, look she's, she hasn't he. Time to focus on other things. Her people have been through enough. Thank you, yeah. She ran from mayor against current mayor John cons and his urban renewal policies. It was a populist people's campaign. Louise he's quote what people want. It was to be heard by a city hall, but they found that the may belong to big business and special interests. Passing was then the main topic and she ran on the slogan. So the tsar campaign slogan we ready you know where I stand up god. I don't know what I'm doing over here. You know where I stand

That is not like. Well look. It's code, fur yeah! The no lacks no blacks, let's keep things to say otherwise, then, let's start, Will it change him going to do everything that you know what I'm gonna do? I was going to call my can't pay winkie wink, but I went with You know where I stand. I also just don't understand the idea that, like how you like how you feel like it, normal to just have no racial integration of any like how that are you see that as a benefit like this? I think it's true what so so you're so take a place like south boston, so you're living there. The only contact you have with because they dare not. These people are really going to work. In the city or if they are announced- and without these there are now so they're, not really I really have an that. So the only time there there see and black people

is like a bus driver coming through or when their schools play the others. Well, then, they fight afterwards like, but that's that's the that show so there but they're so isolated that they don't see the benefit of. Why would I want the? Why would I want to know anybody else right? But that the reason why the schools are always a good thing to start integration because then kids are sort of like. Oh, I didn't even know me friend was chinese like instead of the grown ups, who are pulled out of that sort of races.

Just because they haven't seen it before. My kid goes to school. It's like a half korean half korean, I would say- and it's up to him growing up as a cap with a bunch of green people. It's all this, what it is, but you can tell that there's a lot of korean parents are like okay, you just go. We know you're, not part of my world, but there's there's quite a few that are absolutely fine, but there's definitely a segment of them, like our kids, are in an all korean class they're, not going to hang out with your kids, we're not going to talk to you yeah, it's very it's very interesting. So they go to corinne de garten. They go to. There is a special korean language program and they don't teach their kids English growing up. So they will have to go onto the english in the korean language program, which is all korean lets. It's an interesting time will have a refund to see how this all shakes. Our work until you the other other all the white kids boys get

asian fetishists and then they start dating him, and the fathers want to kill him, wait what eventually cause the korean kids aren't going to have any problem with it, but even though they're trying to keep the gets isolated school, can't and then those kids are going to start dating and they're gonna start dating white kids, and then the whole fucking thing will come apart, yeah! Well, that's what we need. We just need what we just need to keep like. We just need to keep mixing it up. Hopefully, I'll just turn out one cholera like two hundred years. It's mix in two hundred years think they'll be earth. Anyone have further. If good luck, ok, so back to do so. So you know where I stand its code that she believed the things that they believed in code against the tide, change the business community and moderates were terrified by what she represented. They all came together and backed new and up and coming mayor, candidate, Kevin white and yet wait. Wait the non racist! So ok, once the whites, the guy work, ass, guide, sly power,

power. No, no, don't do not grant that no, not chant than here come on why is right? Why is right? No, no, that, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, and the wealthy and better people, as they considered themselves no problem going after Louise Boston, author george Higgins described her quote: stubby in overweight middle age, with a fussy here do and at least a double chin see. This is the thing, but this is where this is Would you care if you're like do not judge people based on their appearance? You short double chin. Weirdo, you care be against black. The little stubby fat fuck. You should not jaw asia, just some decide that someone does not belong to school based on their appearance. Otherwise, you'd, be in trawl college, you little bridge sprite. Let me guess you wanna hear:

the children's teeth or something. So I can cross your moat. Louise is campaign with such a big deal that she made it onto the cover of newsweek magazine in an article that mocked her to the point of savagery. It was titled backlash in Boston. She was portrayed as a crude popular monster and newsweek took pleasure in repair. Apart quote her boston is the immigrate. Boss of irish cops and firemen slim keepers and cab drivers, long, sherman and small time. Businessmen. Can I ok? Can I take a little get because this is very like one when time magazine just named trump person. If it was your like. Ok, I get it you're. Your angle is too like that. The whole thing is that it's always been like. Who is the biggest deal?

of the union, which is a true person of the year, the biggest deal that the problem is that its title person of the year, it's not titled main focus of the year, is Walter spin that undue I'm the best person of the air time said that its unbelievable I'm the best right, but hitler was the person in the year in forty three or whenever like say they just get? It's maybe this week, the rules again, but this is the same thing: it's when it's. When you bring you the spotlight on someone to be like: isn't this person stupid and then you like where's stupid- and everyone now knows of this person when these weeks and her supporters looked like characters out of moon Mullins moon owns a comic strip about lowbrow characters who lived in a boarding house and loved vice okay. The writer called her. Followers quote a comic strip, gulliby gallery of tripling in brawlers, escape this parent. You can't get. This is foolish and after ex gave a speech, they announced quote unscrewed their cigar

that's from their chins and line up to pump arm as if it were a jack handle under a trailer truck. Then on the little lost. yeah was being the exact kind of snobby superior classes, bullshit that asking them deplorable. That's right that few, Louise is candidly. She attacked the magazine for its quote, insults to boston and its residents. Declaring quote. I am proud of my heritage and my chance now. severed senator edward Kennedy, also backed white for mer, the powers of the day thought white could bridge the divide between business and the poor, working white class neighbourhoods and white one bite, twelve thousand votes. They like three under those people, so pretty close race and he tried to bridge the gap. He stopped the rampant d,

of houses and gave locals a voice. He tried to put an end to racial tensions with his summer thing: neighbourhood programme, summer thing, naval, music, art sort of thing or that, but then people from all neighbours come together for the festival. That's terrible. Leah gets not great about its at the hatches. It still happening now, ok he spent over five hundred million on neighbourhood improvements and it seems to be working then came the recession of nineteen seventy four, a boy and as the money stop pouring in envy desegregation decision of the courts with no power to speak of middle class. Blacks in Boston had been focusing on the schools for awhile and had turned to the state legislature and the courts their belief, a simple pat jones, a black kennedy activists, said quote: if the rain rips into the school library an there. There are only acting in that library that nothing is going to change. If white kids are sitting in the library things going to change and the roof is gonna get fixed.

Ok, that's actually true at one resent true. Next next boy in eighteen, sixty five, the legislature pass the racial imbalance initiative, which said that schools with more than fifty percent minorities, were imbalance and would not get state funding. So that is so now just sort of starting to turn the clock back on what the progress they have. No they're saying right now, any any school that doesn't have fifty percent majority odin. Does it doesn't sigh asked in school community fought it in all kinds of ways at one point reclassifying six hundred and seventy chinese students as white. oh wait book, because the chinese are better than the blacks in their mind, the epidemic. Ok, we'll take the goddamn chinese. Ok right, ok to put chinese over here for chinese over there, the more

look at the death, the more look at the black kids. They look very color, wise, very asian kid oh he looks like a special I kinda died. a blind? I mean that it is equally as he's The disease almost caucasian is like a boy but as an asian white or caucasian were tremendous, you call them mendes child and that's where caucasian came from the state then denied Boston, fifty two million dollars in school funding. For what, we did everything we made the chinese. Why? What do you want from again Making the blacks white I'll tell you that right now, that's not on the agenda. I know For that white guy got and offers we'd be screwed. The school committees responded in the school committee, responded by pushing demonstrations and fighting in the courts, so their response is to get help. People hit the streets right, and then

I back with lawyers. Finally, the end, a c p stepped in and charged the Boston school committee, with violating the fourteenth amendment federal judge, Arthur Geraghty agreed. He ordered that the scope for many come up with a plan by September nineteen. Seventy four and the committee refused hm yeah. That's a weird! Is that an option? It's not actually adoption right, judge Gary then put the schools in better or receivership and imposed his own solution. So he's taken of the school governs run in the school ok phase, one of his plan focused on the two poorest schools in Boston, all white, irish, south boston, high and nearly all black roxbury high. Ok kids would be bust from six different public housing pro Next to the two schools: okay right, so they're, taking black kids and put them in south boston, they're, taken white kids and put them in roxbury. Surely this will be happening?

as you will be aware of its gonna happen, is it going a little bit of grumbling poverty, blah blah blah. Let's get to learning it normally. If, if a of a person, who's prejudice meets the person they're prejudiced, They learn right away that right away the visual. especially when you force them into a room right right, yeah, there's a girl! Fine south He the highest levels of concentrated white poverty in the united states in an adult male unemployment rate of forty percent. Pretty pretty. with a good. I agree that it has a lot to do lot of around. Do enough. That's good that it is always important. Looking for work, poor dates, wealthy led the city in drug overdoses and came in a close second to roxbury in gun murders. Some to talk about south boston roxbury. I had parallel dropout rates.

citizens, essentially like a foreign exchange programme, but with racist. What should happen is that look how much we have in common use. You guys I should guide us. The white parents and southie were in re overwork, because the judge lived in better off wellesley. And there was no bussing going on there. That's amazing lou he's had several demonstrations, anti busters formed an organization called roar, bra restore our alienated rights. Apply. I write down people only here only in boston would they start and end their acronym with the one letter they have trouble pronouncing. So how these but raw our aid, la la LA they say raw law raw like malaria, raw, like meat like that a jew raw? Are you so much or ok. You know the line

their raw where did, and you have not get any it fuck, you fuck you or wig stupid Jesus Christ to get in members had to pledge ok, ready for the pledge you nope, I will not pledge, it used to the court of the united states or the dictatorship for which she stand. One law, one nation under the with liberty and justice. For not this is roar. The other drawers pledges there their pledge that they will not identify Erica until it recognizes whites as number one or two days right in Boston, political leaders empowered working class by rewarding them politically for loyalty, the city's working class believed in pragmatic politics and making deals. That's how it was done. So the people of south boston figured if they protest. If they would force another solution,

through a deal. Ok, because that's the way things are done. Our protocol right that almost looked at almost lives than like fixing travel day right. Fucking the guy over there to come over here. Do a thing he's talking about some stuff and then they're like no blacks right, the anger from the outside manipulation of their lives. bubbling over the economy, was in a shudder. Shipyards are closing defence related industries, repairing down after the vietnam war south, yet the highest. Average number of families on welfare and the city they read, and of their rope and then along came something they could physically fight against now south Boston's, a peninsula into the harbor of the Charles river, separates charlestown from downtown, and so these are totally isolated communities, proud, hostile to outsiders and too poor to send their kids to private schools. The high schools would like south these kind of scary. If your white, I mean you know it's all the different now I think but yeah I think there are act. Then it's scary

inevitably there won't. Even when I was a bit of an old school, maybe like you that you, if you come through their work with the foxes, but they even when I was when I went to school, there were one of my best friends still lives in revere, which is this You know there are just these like any room. It's very like reminds me very much of like england, in the sense that you know if you went out drunk there's a good, can't you fight somebody like, and that will show the same, and but unlike revere and south is the same. Where urea you don't want to do. You know you just don't fuck around right, yeah yourself a little. Do you know how to fight grown up in southie, yankee, there's no other yeah, so so there isometric communities are proud of the too poor to send their kids to other schools. The high schools in their sport teams were like the one of the

What points of the community so they're, very tribal they sang southie is my home town. You know that kind of crash it, the white knights and so bringing in black kids and sending their own kids out of the village to go to school, was a major threat to their way. Judge garrity was another latest attacking their way, Of life in the Boston, south boston state centre, William bolder said: gerda quote the sensitive. A change saw in the foresight of mackerel in an that's, that's just fucking, a classic boston, seems like allow these fish like to reach its. You know is allowed in fish like one when he said that there were not a head. That's right, macros, don't fuckin, see shit line and allowed align in an enemy, the one sided resident warned what was coming. We may be guilty, but we will fight you

we might go out in the back here and fight and I might tear your eyes out it's wrong, maybe, but we'll stand by our actions. Okay, that's very southie or weird yeah, but he saying fucking will do what I will kill you, I'm gonna do some fucking damage we will kill. You might be wrong, but I'm going to be okay with it. I'm not always we might kill you several days before. Busing went into effect well known, southee crime, boss, whitey bulger, said in elementary school on fire in judge wesley neighbor. Ok rights so that batteries I say now you don't have a school nita who basically those kids, had to go to be bus somewhere else, while they were fixing the school. So when you're bussing, these kids are you? Is it almost just like you're, just randomly picking like, however many kids and they're just getting bused to this other school? They go through the school roster and they pick at certain this amount of girls as amount of boys.

The color, and then they sent him to another school pre with that's pretty weird and general in his lady weird, it's it's It's it's a strange force it just. It doesn't seem like it's going to go well. Well, I agree with you on this one year, three days before, schools were to open a group of moderates organised a meeting at city hall plaza. It was an attempt to maybe take the air out of everyone talking about violence. Okay, let people can blow off some steam and then maybe it'll work itself ass, sure centre, edward and he was invited to address the crowd at one point. So no one knows he's there and some guys. Okay, you want to fucking stand up and say some words are okay. People are surprised to see him. Men, everyone knew he supported bussing, eight thousand people, cheered and boot. They sang songs and people. Yelled out quote a disgrace to the irish. Why,

you're late, I'm sure you're, like a shy, your brother thou. That is going too far too far. You dog, put. Why don't you put your one legged son the bus. The rocks burn. All right. That's my boy! A bad is understandable, ass, his leg a year before to cancer. You know that began well. Let's go to a boston sporting of that there it's it's not nothing's off limits. I remember that jason kidd when he was there and they were shouting wife beater, like literally every time he touched, the ball they're amazing. His son had just lost his leg to cancer. These were the people who had supported Kennedy for years and now most of them turn their backs on him and started singing songs, while others through tomatoes and eggs. At him, Kennedy was hustled off the platform. A newspaper reported quote: he was rushed by an a by

Three mothers who stepped in front of him with clenched fists, you're gonna, take entirely away from me. One woman kicked him in the ship others started hitting him with. These are women against Kennedy yeah. You know that this is like a fetish ram. Will you kick me in my balls automatic it's one of the only ways I cannot be sexual anymore, odd, busing, busing, busing. There we go now you go naming naming my stomach and then let me sniff your foot. He was hustled out and the doors were closed behind them, but the doors were glass. And the people immediately shatter them. Then went outside and through eggs, the federal building next next door that they always also shopping kennedy. They programme brought eggs in case someone like canada, king fuckin, for worst case scenario we make the world's biggest omelette

This obviously do not bode well for the fish, the first day of school right I'll right as that gonna go next day september. Twelve, Eighty schools open in Boston, only one had problems south Boston. I k it was a hot september morning. The old building sits on top of a hill, but that day it look different As quote, everyone should own a nigger and no niggers and south boston and kill niggers was spray painted on the walls. So it's an honor. You start outside a crowd of several hundred people had gathered across this. they held signs that included bus and back to africa and french fried niggers for sale. The bus back to africa just shows a total lack geographical grasp. It's not an aquatic vehicle. Reporters had gathered in a police officials

then quote, make sure you leave a little passageway for the kids, who might have the balls to show today the cops well where the classroom yeah. Oh yeah, I'm not surprised when the first buses appeared at the crowd went into a quote frenzy, you're being treated like a scab, free or race. Right and just say so, One hundred people chanted here we go southie. Ok, that's terrify! Because of the people's coming from it's terrifying yeah,

cause you again. You know what that means: yeah yoda, where we stand well, it's also a fuckin we're going to go, get him yeah. He goes out. You know it's a sporting event, yeah yeah, and then they started throwing rocks followed by chunks of wood, beer cans and beer bottles. They also threw bananas and pieces of watermelon at the bus. These are kids. It's just like the cops bit of line, clubs out and moved toward the crowd to try to disperse them, which worked crowd would just immediately reform elsewhere and start throwing things again. A swedish reporter was there and she said quote it's just trying to make the kids eat fruit, salad, happy bananas, it's just like belfast the women with the same talk the same and seem to be just as tough anytime there's trouble. You see them egging there

It's on, so that that sorry, that is in relation to report. Her is saying, but she sing in south is exactly like what she say in war torn belfast. The three battle went on all day. By the end of the day, the cops had right how much on when they fought to get the kids back on the bus one bus how to win our school, Why you covered a banana? What happened? Weird you! for tomorrow I want to die, he accepted go back tomorrow. I try this forest experiment again This is your last the lottery. This is great for kids. Send you back into the devil's, then one bus, how to windows shudder by iraq, glass children, the driver and monitor attendants, they one of the nineteen seventy four school year at south boston, high of thirteen hundred students

and twenty four. That's how many shut up the first day, fifty six blacks and sixty eight whites. I gotta say if you're a black kid that's knives and numbers yet the debts. There are ways better for that year. Grand the rationale is awful getting. There is not good at least then you're. Like look worst case scenarios almost like wonder what gives one the one in here worst case and their white, The mayor and is aids were said to be in shock by the response of the neighborhood. Well, he was dying of aids, One knew the sense of rage that, if a building in southie student. Regina Williams had never been. There quote. I had no idea what to expect of this buzzing thing. I didn't know anything about south Boston. I do know anything about. You know that they didn't like us. I didn't do anything that was in store for us, but when we got there it was like a war zone, that's even more terrifying, get up sure. Most of them had no fucking idea. There getting there just like getting on a blast. You don't know what it is. I came back.

can I told my mom and I never forget, it said ma, I'm not going back to that school. Unless I have a gun at fourteen years old, I'm not going back to that school and she didn't. She dropped out of school. The next day, wow, on the second day school, there was a mob of five hundred outside now the mob was adjusting to police tactics. Dancing and retreating while throwing missiles throwing missiles allow mrs or they call rocks or whether ok well, they should be more clear on day three the police brought withdrawing grenades, apples, apples, apples, my bet, land mines, krispies on day three, the police brought out the teepee f, the tactical police force, ok. I was a special unit that it had been form to deal with anti were pressed protesters during the not a case. Let's get it

it's paralleling that and so on and on this went, the crowd, would attack, disband and then run through the streets and reform a brick hit detective francis creamer, who fell to the pavement hitting his head, and he went into cardiac arrest and he died. Three weeks later, one hundred kids rushed the Andrew square subway station and just beat random blacks. So it's spreading out a little bit good normal neighbour, the tv have rushed into the subway station swinging night sticks of the kids. The kids ran a very tactical, very tactical precise maneuvering, take out your clubs. The fuck is a brick at a cab driver as he drove past a housing project. By day three south boston, women were wearing football and hockey helmets in the street come on. That's crazy. One woman told a reporter quote in america: the voices

People are supposed to be had the black people are being heard, but we're not. We want to kiss you gotta schools, they say the schools belonged everybody more part of every body. That is so it like that. It's it's so hard when you hear you're like a point like that and its confident, because you like, my god- I, u have to like argue against large lodged like you're not buying in the logic who hears the hard thing so they're right about getting back into a corner, but they ve picked the wrong battle of all the battles, but you can't I think so they've been fucked over by the city and then now there's one this. The problem with with with when you're fighting against wealth is that at the end of the day, the only thing you can punch is another

a person yeah. Well, I mean you know the vive like. What's so vexing about the world we live in is that he had like we're literally talking about, like you know, two thousand people who are ruining the fucking world, like we know you're rich. We know the area where they are living, go there then just fucking kick the fence down and go ape shit. And then be like this, is that ted is gonna, be the president for call it figured stuff out a dead done as I was just now. The bar he's great they were all gonna, love, em, like I said, every congressmen and senator died in the explosion. So it's It's one rewrite another woman said quote: we just want to children close to home. You think this was russia. Now that I will give now that it was As apparent, if someone came to me and said your kid s to go to school far

hold the. If your kid is one of the kids who is go, into like a completely different way You shall environment or for that is that that is like the floor. That's why it's like you know it's like an arranged marriage. It's like you can't force. This sort of acceptance, the idea behind it like the thrust behind it is, is good because like with. Let's show people how not do we actually are. The problem is, is that they made their bed because they own the school district and they they controlled it, and they didn't do anything so now, they're getting the repercussions of that and they're fucking mad at it yeah. No, you I, I think you do like you can empathize with, but again it's like when you're like. When someone is saying you know this is equal rights will. Where am I right? I know you're not. These are known in south boston. A couple minutes later, the tpa just flat our broad that the mob about five hundred tactically,

we were trying to break into at school. What we saw we tragically hit them over the head with these sticks, where we got it we're, shooting them and spread vashon. Technically this how the violence embolden the other neighborhoods, because that's how violence works on the fifth day, black students in I can't believe they made it to a fifth day. Oh dude threw rocks at the integrated boston, technical, high school soccer team during practice, so black students are throwing students rocks at white students and fights were happening in schools, students fighting at hyde park high. It was so bad in the first week that please call that in the teepee up, so they called the cops into the school right canal, defining how we can create just started getting on with wood young activists. I get the guys in here then yeah for students rob hospitalized the headmaster close to school. For two days. Shots were fired through the door of jamaica, plain

in high school buses were stone and roxbury matter, pan and dorchester in dorchester. Group of black eyes, slashed to white students with knives to white, guys assaulted a black and b t a driver. Such a bus driver, yes, attack, so its spreading citywide. Now and that's, I went for a couple of weeks, stoning, stabbings, fightings and then october forth. The anti bussing forces have another rally with politicians. Speaking in the neighborhood politicians, do they could do to keep the tensions. I've shed. That word, words will probably be the answer to this state Santer. William bolder, ok quote! This is time for the faint of the enemy can go straight to hell. We whose he pro his prisoner, anti pressing so who's the enemy. The enemy are the buzzing people yeah people bringing about the buses

It feels like when they say enemy they're, not they're, talking about ok, Someone asked him. If there is a choice, of success- and he said quote, you bet your life there isn't. There is no chance of success that you're going as the courts erosion right so that the politicians are lie. The politicians have been saying for years working to stop the bus another buzzing is happening so they tried to say the trying to keep their fucking jobs and their power. by saying we're gonna fuck and get the buzzing right. They can't say that's it for that. Louise told the crowd they were fighting for freedom for the police mostly irish, and their union donated money to the anti bussing caught stead, but when they are called upon, they held their ground. It didn't take long for them to get tired of the townie bullshit quote after the third or fourth rock comes flying. You tend to forget.

Righteousness, other cause us soon. The police relate. into the crowds with everything they had the actions of the copse, particularly that cps made the people angrier. Everything is snowballing. There was a well known bar and southie called the rabbit in a local hang out for an irish gang known as the mullins and right across the street from a housing There were rumours that the mullins we're gonna, commit major acts of violence with guns and dynamite, and the police this new. The rabbit in was a place where anonymous calls kept being made. That would learn police in the areas where objects will be thrown at them. Ok, so, on friday, the fourth when a police cruiser had its windshield smashed by a brick near the rabbit in the cops tried to arrest

guy, but thirty five molin gang members came out of the bar and fought with the police and tell they let the guy go while the next night, the teepee f, with black tape over their badge numbers and dressed in right gear, raided the bar, while the top the cops tore the place apart and quote: a busted heads k. Did you get his badge number I couldn t was were No, my room now. If we can find there is a black stripe guy. You talk in france hey. He lives down by my mom. I know it's fucking Jesus Christ, like a fog, is altogether, will you not do the erika? Well, it's weird that the here doesn't work. Is an ottoman ottoman strange?

two nights later a crowd loitered around the projects across the street protesting the raid. That's when completely oblivious to everything jean Louis Andre, yvonne drove past? He was a haitian refugee, oh god, the crowd stopped and surrounded the car smash. The windows dragged him out and beat him with hockey sticks. Jesus news camp, recorded it. Two cops tried to russia to save him, but they were also beaten back one of the copse pull that has got and fired over the crowds head and they finally ran off and evolved was saved. The next day after watching on the news, blacks retaliated. English high was a new, mostly black school, near fenway park. White students were being bust in someone pull the fire alarm and the students emptied out into the streets and started a race war,

all right. First wonder that tree win! Now, that's no! That's not this! That's not the war were doing oh I can tell you why yeah punching you now and then oh not the same tree, I'm gonna trail a punch in the stomach. The blacks from nearby housing project started, throwing rocks at passing cars that whites are driving. Whites are dragged from dragged from their cars and beaten right writers through objects from the tops of buildings that police cars one guy reported. There are throwing baseball bat about fifteen hundred students walked up tree, mount street smashing windows and throwing rocks the fight, went on in the area of for another day, ok trademarked on october, tenth genius present gerald ford stuck in his his nose in and said quote. I respectfully disagree with it

It is also fight. He disagrees with the order bussing. He how he just a just said in the middle of writing LAO that he, greece, with the white people who are fucking attacking buses to teach the it's almost like, like a city is how does he not know not to say that a city is literally coming apart and the best thing you can do is like we gotta work this out. Let's figure out how to do it. You don't take a fucking side, yeah that and the wrong side right will have fired at their day buses and gave them hope the buzzing was like I let the president's on fuck side. Let's go get em mayor I said the president was challenging the rule of law in the country, because that that's what has he was right after four weeks there are a hundred forty, nine arrests and a hundred twenty nine injury. Property damage of fifty thousand dollars, and one copy died of a heart attack. The mayor than ass judge Geraghty for federal marshals to be so

and he said hysteria was leading to more hysteria and, like everything else, anti bussing people heard about his requests. They got even angrier. Oh god, I thought they were like the height of anger up my cup of god, state rep ray flynn responded. Could force will be good for us. The people of south Boston have a proud tradition. They don't like to be pushed around by police, a federal marshals either like I love the lake, ok sure the tradition, is that there are like the less than the law, the traditional so seems to be that they don't want black people around does seem to be an issue. We will

it's been raised for so long and we're celebrating our anniversary right now is just the timing of all. This is way off. It's fucked up because I been hating blacks for like thirty years and we're supposed to stop now is not a good time. For me to not be racist anymore, after all that the judge rejected the mayor's request for federal marshals. So the mayor asked the governor, who gave three hundred state troopers and one hundred cops for the metro metro district. Okay, on October tenth state troopers were patrolling pause of south boston high school. That was when actually, when the riots moved into the high schools, there was an end. stream of brawls between whites and blacks and south boston in hyde park. High schools and october fifteenth. There were two separate fights at hyde park once started with some black girls attacking you, a white girl in a bathroom, a white student just

crowley rushed into help, but he was stabbed in the stomach. The entire school was now in a raise brawl and the entire a hundred and twenty five t p F squad entered the school stop it. Let's all run in different directions and scream. I was I fucking hate guys in the face, with a stick things tactically, outside the school, the police arrested Joseph crowley. Sr for throwing rocks at a bus kay. I love that her brother, stab and she's, like fuck, oh, you, fuckers you're, under arrest, for being upset about your brother. The school was closed by the head master for two days. On what grounds I just now they do want is to no date it's out we're takin a racist day so no school for today's cause. Erases. Ok, the guy but then mobilized for international guardsman. He asked the federal troops for federal, true support for president ford, who said no

The foreign national guardsmen seem to stop the fighting in the schools and, by the end of october, the f b. I had forty two open files of civil rights violations, but something else was happening. Black parents reporting, their kids are bringing home textbooks for the first time. Please, they had not because they weren't enough reach student, and now there is enough textbooks to go round more equipment. Do at roxbury high quote: they ve got an they ve got equipment they're, coming their cars. I know the science teacher there and he's tried for years to get a microscope just one lousy microscope. But he's got a hundred twenty five years

necessary, setting white kids over to the black schools. They started funding the blacks right. It's a fucking grows the state jouberts left on december forth, as that was the length of time that was agreed. They'd be they're. Starting that day until December tenth south boston high was one of continuous brawls inside while cops fought protesters outside on the six they closed the school early. When why students marched through the haulage chanting, racist chance cool on the night, a black girl had a white girl on the head. With the padlock black student said they left for home on buses They said that when they left for home, so when they get on the bus at the end of the day, southey mothers wave bananas and jumped up and down like they were monkeys. Oh those are fucking adult there's, like thirty five year old yeah, not

a shocking on December eleventh as anybody who had a fruit stand was like. May businesses burma around here, believe how many I will tell you what this new buzzing programme is done wonders for my fruit tat. I thought I saw it any watermelons is weak. Then eight thousand bucks about on December eleventh as students which classes which when the brawls usually start, because they're all in the fucking hallway right, James white, a black student stabbed Michael faith, a white student as faith crumpled to the ground in a puddle of blood panic ensued. White students fled the school as they did the picketers hurt. What happened and a huge mob swelled outside this is not going to end well, the crowd thought faith was dead and they wanted vengeance. Okay, what do you think then why I'm sure something until this is this is such a tipping point moment like this is this is the this: is the butane on the fire? This is when this is when

it comes together and they hold as amazing as everyone stop jenny, highly illogical for too long we ll get a circle. We announce when four. He's gonna leave us in a song or I uno, Patrick Patrick elite, the song so about love, love and our colours and whatnot. I'm not confined so they think they think the kids dead right. All the white kids ran out of the school, the picketers her would happen and there outside soon there are twenty five hundred people scream outside the building and throwing everything they could find inside, they became serve concerned that they would not be able to get the black students out of the building. Louise bolder- and flynn the politicians all arrived on the scene.

and somehow the weee is- was the voice of reason using a bull harm. She dressed the protesters and said they had a right to be there, but they should let the black students leave tat quote: let the black kids be bus back the roxbury. That's when the crown turn on the ways and started channing shut up. Louise shut up low. We could have so much worse. They also started singing I'm dreaming of a white christmas the thing gimme that trying to clever it. The truth is, it is it is. It is clever, I mean at this moment they start singing, I'm jamie white Chris, I mean that's, not it's so fucking south boston. The argument isn't that they can be they they do have, they do have timing, but you, like yeah, you

we are right: good, ok, a little funny very moment in this racial nightmare, now back to work. The reporter script described the scene, quote, cans and sticks breaks were flying through the air like a hailstorm, and some of the copse have been hit hard. Least waded in with clubs swinging away, while mounted police road into the crowd. Trampling people kid slash the tires of police cars and broke their windows. They overturned the police superintendents car inside the building that a teacher aside, brick hit a cop in the head and she started wondering if any of them we're gonna get out alive. At that point, they came up with a plan to bring a decoy buses out front while they would hustle the black students at a side door for other waiting buses. K quote the horseman had to bear the brunt of it. They waited into

hailstorm of cans, broken bottles rocks the size of fists, brick boards and eggs, but neither the battered men or the bloodied horses broke, so the cops weighed in as a distraction get themselves in the middle of the fucking crowd right, so they can get the kids out the side door right. It worked. The students got out after being trapped for four hours, but it's finally gone too far. South Boston high was closed for the rest of the semester. The black community called for the school to be closed permanently black leader, Thomas Atkins, called Boston, high, a jungle, but that's that's actually too nice yeah jungles aren't, like I mean jungles, are.

May it is to be no nice things there that's fairly dangerous, though I don't think it's a bad the jungle, yet the jungle of you would not want to be in the jungle. I feel like you're being a little bit me into the jungle. The jungle life I feel like You do not want to go to the jet and honest I, but the high schools way I rather be in the jungle than in the high school. I dont think you're right. I think I think, of ours into your junk. Well journey. You'd go You know what I'll, give it a world agony all school as you its thereby as like you ve, been bitten by five things in a berries that are making it throw out. I don't like bugs that a problem here a huge problem for your plan says. beginning at the school year, one thousand and ninety two black students had been arrested, overheads spend suspended, expelled compared to five hundred and fifty whites,

in a well that tells yeah, my kids are twice as bad a case shot and good. The local alternative newspaper noted that the people of south Boston were completely alienated from the government, and their rage was all consuming, but at the same I am southie was community coming together before the buzzing crisis, people expected southie to break apart slowly, being overrun by progress. Right. Rain is development, but this perceived attack, reverse that trend and created a rise in ethnic pride resident started chanting being power as they stood at rallies or marched in braids. They a shamrocks green power. Neither irish ok. their green tam, o chanters irishness, sweaters signs and bumper stickers that proclaimed had made irish number one young irish kids were encouraged to study. The origins.

their race. In ireland they came together to five, the solely as a rich hissed lakes. I thought I had. Then we got a budget potatoes in jail each other. Then we came here so it break I tried the that's right. Big funds of green leaved thing little things that give your wishes and potatoes Anwar Al Bashir forgot about the rainbows. Although I, like my rainbows, only white what about take pride in the past. You have killed each other over a man in the sky. I ever I did. That is the other thing. The eye we have you people if we have to, for a while ago. It so happens. You have to stop thinking that god damn support.

I believe in him. However, you want to slice it. We have to stop thinking that he's taking sides in its, This is not the man that always or that are the deity or the being that's. That's never gonna put, but it's like. He can't it's never got he's not like it's not like. It's never going to stop. That's why I like when they like, you know like they in america. They definitely politicians at times, definitely insinuate, like a god, likes his best first and foremost of all. Clearly, god likes us because we got all the shit. That's got nothing to do with geography and we say: may god continue to bless the that again doesn't stop the blast, so great does. If you're white, yeah and oh by the way you know they they've. There was a reddit thing where someone said that what's your favorite podcast and someone posted this and a bunch of people flooded it up and there's a whole like discussion on down the very bottom. Some guy said: I'd I'd like a man, but when they

in their fucking white guilt. Shit, hey, you know, and if you don't know, if you don't have white guilt, listen to his podcast you're inhuman, but I also think that you know it like the and again I mean I. I get it. I gotta get the idea that somebody would be like to stop making me feel so bad about something that I had nothing to do with. I I stand that. However, the bigger point in all of it is just if an end, I think, if you, you, wouldn't like what what choice that we have I was re going to react enough. You have to. Are we going to react to this? Like? Oh man, this is fucking, great, hey, hey! This is no big deal. I agree. No bussing gerald ford had it. You know the one The way you can react to be like what a nightmare, what monsters not hand its heart of the way that you not to say that we are going to end racism

the you to listen. Do it is an accepted to visit you and if I did, I understand the history of yeah and you can't like these people in this story, we're doing right now, winner react. The same thing tat, true Empathy and understanding for the kids they were coming over we're safe. same thing. Everybody should take mushrooms retargeting. Thank you. I want I was gonna. Listen to me. I was correct its hope. That is not what mushrooms are called knowing Jesus Christ was no Your question was so so. Yes, I was ask a great way to learn about everything. Also, people were finding they're, calling a woman explained how fighting back changed. Her quote. I national raised this morning. I gotta hold the anger.

While I never knew this old lady even had this kind of anger, what a great feeling to be able to take it. On all those ridiculous decisions and fight them. We ve got a lot of people joining us who live his anger all their lives. This is the white angle you re on They added in ass. They just didn't know what to do with it. It's the only good thing about the bussing movement and allows me to find that anger Rather I am I angry every minute of the day, so that's asylum, this set so our gang, what's aside, settling in and becoming an accepted way of life, but when people say stuff like yes right, you are Oh yeah yeah now moving beyond outrage into full time, job right, yeah, but the anger just lead to violence in children not going to school attendance rates,

all they had gone up since the beginning of the bussing. We're still way down. Activists in the black humility saw things differently quote. If the whites want to keep their kids home, that's ok, let them let them keep them home for twenty five years, so they can't get jobs. I guess that will mean more jobs for us. So true, meanwhile lieutenant Robert bradley. My plan is to stay at home and get still put more stupid, both Meanwhile, lieutenant robert bradley of the tpm stood with his helmet on and a pile of broken glass with a dead cigar stub hanging out of his mouth as tow trucks took away a wrecked police cruiser. He said quote, there's no end to it. It's just going to go on and on.

do we're on MIKE. There seems to be no answer to the problem of Boston, so this is so long, there's going to be two parts and we had our break yeah. This is this is going to be two parts, because it's heavy hitter hit every hit our midpoint as well. Nineteen, seventy five, it's fucking and say so. We we should take a break for food. We just did nineteen seventy four nineteen, seventy five. So can we take let's end this before we get to seventy five years way to learn to do it is one I was so as to full breadth to be continued. Well, dad dad done,