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12-19-2017, 02:59 PM

The week long Boston Globe Spotlight series on racism in Boston greatly angered me. Boston is no more racist than any other major US city. I think that because Boston has institutions like Harvard and MIT, and being such a blue state, it bothers liberals that we aren't a perfect harmonious area of complete utopian diversity. IMO liberals have an extremely unrealistic view of the world and how it should be run.
One of Boston's problems is that for such a major and significant US city, we are on such a small scrap of land with no place to expand to. Boston's success causes too many people and companies wanting to be in the area, and that causes enormous stresses to the population here. And I don't think that most want to change the landscape of this great city and turn every block into giant towers of offices and apartment buildings. And I think that the same sentiment goes for the other cities and towns in the Metro Boston area.
And I don't think that Boston has a problem with racism, but Bostonian liberals have a heart attack anytime the N-word is uttered, even though blacks use that work all of the time. As to income disparity, it's more that certain cultures and lifestyles are not compatible with the current competitive nature of the Boston economic climate. I work with an extremely diverse company, and the fact is, the minorities I work with just aren't interested in achieving academic skills and turning them into a high-paying career. They don't care about learning to code, they don't push their children to learn those sorts of skills either. However, of the recent immigrants, they are happy enough to be living in the US and not in their home country (South Americans, Haitians, etc...). And of the young blacks I work with, they aren't all that ambitious either. One young black woman thought it no big deal to become a baby momma at the age of 19. But on the plus side, they will never turn into workaholics and will always take the time to enjoy life (non-work related activities). On the negative side, they will always be on the lower end of the economic scale... and that's through no fault of whitey. (Btw I make more than most of my co-workers, because I work extra hours for OT and for other companies on the side.)
And the US will always have large income disparity as long as there is a welfare system that rewards the lazy and also having the willingness to take in every stray immigrant and refugee with a hard luck story. And that's all well and good, but there is no fast track for under-educated, non-fluent English speaking immigrants to getting middle class wages and being a homeowner, especially not in the Boston area.