They still are, Jerry: Boston has been consistently rated as the most racist city in the USA. As I observe the struggles Canada is going through to try to legislate reparations to their First People, I doubt that the US is in any condition to even begin that conversation. Something academics have begun to do: many of us begin academic co…
They still are, Jerry: Boston has been consistently rated as the most racist city in the USA. As I observe the struggles Canada is going through to try to legislate reparations to their First People, I doubt that the US is in any condition to even begin that conversation. Something academics have begun to do: many of us begin academic conference sessions with the acknowledgement that we are all standing on land stolen from indigenous people (the specific groups are usually identified by name) and that we owe them not just acknowledgement but also reparations. Some of my colleagues have begun to include this kind of information on their signature lines in official university emails as well. This is a trend going across the USA and Canada.
Well, Boston has a mayor who is Taiwanese-American, a police commissioner who is Black, at least three Black city councilors, two who are Hispanic and one who, from her headscarf appears to be Muslim. I represented several women who were members of the Fire Department ( and women of color), and their view was that Black and Hispanic firefighters were well-accepted, if they were male. Does the city still struggle with racism? Of course. But take surveys like the one you cite with many grains of salt.
They still are, Jerry: Boston has been consistently rated as the most racist city in the USA. As I observe the struggles Canada is going through to try to legislate reparations to their First People, I doubt that the US is in any condition to even begin that conversation. Something academics have begun to do: many of us begin academic conference sessions with the acknowledgement that we are all standing on land stolen from indigenous people (the specific groups are usually identified by name) and that we owe them not just acknowledgement but also reparations. Some of my colleagues have begun to include this kind of information on their signature lines in official university emails as well. This is a trend going across the USA and Canada.
Well, Boston has a mayor who is Taiwanese-American, a police commissioner who is Black, at least three Black city councilors, two who are Hispanic and one who, from her headscarf appears to be Muslim. I represented several women who were members of the Fire Department ( and women of color), and their view was that Black and Hispanic firefighters were well-accepted, if they were male. Does the city still struggle with racism? Of course. But take surveys like the one you cite with many grains of salt.
Yes these recent elected officials make my heart sing! I voted for them all!
Miigwech.