I only know about Common Ground through my black husband, whose mother, my beloved mother-in-law, RIP, taught in a magnet school in Boston when he was growing up there. She wouldn’t send him in to the school she taught in, which theoretically had race-blind admissions, because it was forcibly integrated and still none…

In cities maybe. In my area of rural PA there were Klan meetings up until the late ‘90s early ‘00s. Racism here is actually worse than racism I’ve encountered in parts of the south, not to mention that people here tend to be WAY more xenophobic than most people I’ve encountered in the south. If you’re from out of town…

Have you ever read Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground? Shitty schools all around, and why not bus poor black kids into shitty underfunded white schools, and vice-versa. Through the whole busing crisis hopes were pinned by the white community that it would be rescinded by someone, the City Council, the Mayor, the courts,…

Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones, earlier this season, reported racist hecklers at Fenway Park. And when he reported it, other black baseball players said they expect that sort of treatment at Fenway. The next day, Jones got a standing ovation at Fenway, which is nice, but what the hell is up with Boston?

As a transplant from a big northern City to a big southern one, I’ll gently push back. The subtler racism that supposedly characterizes northern cities? Yeah, that’s not a New York thing or a Boston thing. It’s every bit as present in southern cities - at least if Atlanta and Charlotte are any guide.

Paterno ignoring Sandusky = Károlyi’s ignoring Nassar 

Thanks for explaining a little how the racism is here. While I was so happy there were tons of anti protesters out to show the “Free Speech”crowd they were out numbered, I know more than a few people who say all manner of racist stuff to me but think they aren’t being racist at all.

Richmond also like that, with the addition of the monuments and flaggers. I was raising a kid in the city and other white people would ALWAYS ask about what school I was sending him to, steering me to or from parks and recreation activities. The city is very segregated

My sister is a black corporate attorney in Boston, and yes, she says it’s racist af but couched in politeness. E.g., she gets invited to outings, parties etc by her white colleagues, but never once in the 10 years she’s lived there have any of them accepted an invitation to her home, even though her house and…

I was just recently at an exhibit of Pulitzer prize winning photographs and this was featured. I think the most heartbreaking part of it, beyond the obvious symbolism, is the man in the suit being attacked here wasn’t even part of any protest. He was a lawyer on his way through City Hall plaza to work, the racist…

Canada doesn’t get a pass on being fucking racist either.

You’re probably generally right. But a Jewish center in Boston was recently vandalized. And Adam Jones, an African American outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles recently reported racist taunts from Red Sox fans in Fenway Park. Numerous black players from around the big leagues reported similar instances, which really…

Which is why Boston tried busing.

It’s also that the schools in the city are so bad, because higher property taxes in the suburbs lead to better schools. Most of the time, as soon as you can move out of Boston you do, because better schools, you can have a yard, etc, etc. Hell, South Boston in the 60's and 70's was the greatest concentration of white…

You hit the nail on the head. Racism in Boston and New York is different to racism in charlottesville. It’s curiously white neighbourhoods and schools contrasted with neighbourhoods of colour that somehow have a much lower median income, and schools that are objectively worse. Eric Garner didn’t get murdered in…

Wonderful article. I can still remember the exhibit of Jackie Kennedy’s clothes during her White House years on display years ago in DC. They were transporting but also gave you such a realistic idea of someone who was larger than life. I remember looking at that beautiful Grecian gown she wore to an East Room…

Many years ago at the V&A, they had a dress, mid-1800's I believe, and a portrait of the women wearing the dress. It was amazing to see them side by side.

Cambridge, Ontario is home to the Fashion History Museum:

I think you should definitely keep it and pass it on when you’re old, if you can keep it in good condition. It seems like a nice gesture from a man who really appreciated your kindness. I definitely wouldn’t get rid of it.

I have my grandma’s neighbor’s son’s jacket from the Vietnam war. Her neighbor actually gave it to my younger brother, I am weirdly obsessed with jackets and coats especially military jackets so he gave it to me. I wore it constantly when I was in art school, I was about 120lbs at the time and I just couldn’t believe…