A Neighborhood Conversation on Racism in Boston

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Farah Stockman hosts a conversation in Roxbury's historic Hibernian Hall to celebrate the culmination of weeks of neighborhood readings on the historic busing crisis that ripped Boston apart in the 1970s. An upcoming film, The Harvest, is the impetus for the conversation.
The discussion, moderated by Stockman, includes two former residents of Boston: Michael Patrick MacDonald, who grew up in South Boston’s Old Colony housing project during the 1970s busing crisis, and Cheryl Harris, who grew up in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston and experienced the social and political upheaval first-hand as a young mother. This Roxbury conversation will find the parallels in the Boston busing crisis and Boston's ongoing issues of system racism.
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[@panlyfemedia2618]

this is an amazing documentary .

[@ericjeter2223]

I grew up in Boston in the 70s and 80s. I am black living in NY/NJ, Boston has issues still.

[@jboss729]

This is odd to me. I have an undergraduate degree in Political Science and to be so liberal but also racist surprises me.

[@MFQUEENS15]

@@jboss729 It’s because everybody in Boston is a fake liberal. They advocate for liberal policies because they want to look socially acceptable, but they have a “not in my backyard” attitude.

[@SunnyandNova]

@@jboss729 Bro if you can stay out of prison doors will open for you in Boston especially if you finished school. However Michael is right about these fake liberals.

[@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136]

@@jboss729Because leftists are the actual racists but convince themselves that they aren't by voting for a party that wanted to preserve slavery and segregation and voted for a guy who met with KKK leaders and said,"If you don't vote for me you aint black"

[@d.annejohnson5631]

Mississippi had more (and probably better), black teachers before forced integration than Boston now has (with only 14 percent of the students being white)? One reason was that 50 years ago talented blacks with a good education had many many fewer career opportunities than they have now, so talented and educated blacks, particularly in the South where there were even fewer opportunities, ended up teaching in classrooms. Now there are so many opportunities for talented and educated blacks (in some careers and areas even more than whites because of widespread diversity demands), that those blacks don't end up in public school classrooms, but instead become doctors, lawyers, bankers, managers, college professors, where the hours are longer but the pay is much better.

[@mima8862]

Michael Patrick McDonald🥰

[@luckypuccino16]

Wait I’m confused. I thought Boston was in the Non-Racist North.

[@jared712]

I’m light skinned never felt racism in Boston

[@eileenkelly8749]

exactly true.... ! around the 60's and 70's 'racism' was purposefully created for Boston communities by very naughty 'leaders' for very naughty reasons! And, it has left deep and lasting hell for our country The divided states & people of America

[@bpdcaptain7]

This is unwatchable.

[@kaitsakey6495]

Why