There is no getting around the fact that Boston's history on race is abysmal, your comments sound like you are providing cover for racists/racist behaviot. I don't know you and I'm sure that isn't your intent but it's just what it sounds like. Boston's track record with black athletes is also abysmal. I'm sure there is still some lingering effects.
Some places are obviously worse than others.
As a resident with a non-white wife, we haven't seen it bad. But it also experienced huge changes with the Big Dig and rapid gentrification. The city is almost entirely different than it was in the 1980s and early 1990s.
I never lived in Boston but it was a bit shocking to me how many white people I've dealt with over the years from there who use the "N" word and other racist slang so freely and to people they just met.
As a Boston-area resident in a mixed race relationship, I can say that Boston was a more welcoming place than several locations I visited around 1o years ago - namely Atlanta and a couple of spots in Florida. SF, NYC and Chicago were great. I can't remember any incidents in a really long time, I think people are generally more tolerant now.
Lived there three years 2012-2015. Never met one.
You're lucky, I've met a bunch. Met an annoying girl at a bar a few months back who was visiting Chicago from Boston. She was one of those brutally annoying Boston women who tries to show how she isn't like other girls and knows more than every dude when it comes to sports. I had to tell her to get the hell away from me when she kept referring to basketball as n_g_er handball. I'll always remember visiting my friend's grandma's place in South Boston as young teens and she scolded us for wearing n_g_er pants. With an older lady like that it's more generational and not at all uncommon with that generation unfortunately. It's disturbing when you still hear it from younger people and I've met a bunch of them from Boston and these guys wear it like a badge of honor.
All that anecdote tells me is you naturally attract trash
Just have met a ton of people and don't consider people strangers, I try and talk to everyone. I'm sure it's changed a lot in the past 15 years but the guys I knew and met from Dorchester, Southie, Charleston were pretty openly racist. A friend got me a job years ago for a little while working at a refinery outside of Chicago with a bunch of guys who came up from Louisiana and a bunch of them talked like the Boston guys I'm talking about. There are racists everywhere and like I said, you're lucky you've never experienced it.
LMAO yeah it's just my dumb luck that in three recent whole years (one in Cambridge, two in the city proper) I never once heard a racial epiphet. Oh but you met some trash from Dorchester and saw a couple Matt Damon movies so Boston is still totally racist.
Talk about putting words in my mouth. Is this really how you converse with people? I can't stand hearing racist garbage so I consider you lucky you never had to deal with people like this in your life.
There's this new thing called 2016 where you really don't hear it anymore, depending on your surrounding crowd. Again, you're around the wrong people if you consider me lucky for not hearing such brash and obligatory racism. Extending past my time in Boston, I have heard the N word used in such a way literally once in my 26 years of life, in -hole Nevada (which is of course still one too many). Not sure which decade you're posting from.
Yup, I'm a younger guy, and I'm the one who actually lived there. It's not just my "circle." Boston as a city is becoming younger and younger and, go figure, the old, racist trash is dying out and/or on the fringes of Dorchester or buried in some side street in Southie or some corner deep in C-town with the Townies. If you mean those places by "outside my circle," then hell yeah they are, and that's where they will remain. Those places are no longer representative of the city, and thus said examples are worthless to the conversation that is taking place in 2016.