Where would I come across empirical proof that everyone in Boston aren’t a bunch of racists? Because you’re asserting certainty about that without anything beyond your own anecdotal evidence, just like I am. But of course there isn’t a burden of proof for you, right?

The only part of that worth replying to is that, yes, redlining has a ton to do with the ongoing racial issues. But Boston is behind most cities, northeastern or otherwise, on race issues. My inlaws are from New England and the shit I hear them casually say makes me throw up in my mouth. Ditto the prep school frat…

Perfect. I’ve been meaning to start watching that. Thanks.

I played goalie for 20+ years. Unless there’s a huge difference in height no standing player is cross-checking another standing player in the neck. Partially because while standing there’s so much give and the angle of the cross-check would have to be upward, and the those two factors combine such that it’s not that…

Funny thing is that the only way to play that move would also look like you’re high, it’s the old Hasek move where he went down early and cheated to the short side, forcing the shooter to the backhand and then rolled over.

I’ve spent time in nearly every southern state and no one has ever openly had a conversation like that loud enough for me to hear it in a relatively full restaurant in the major business district of the biggest city in whichever state. Even in SC people at least try to use a veiled “some people” or “those people” — in…

Yeah, not to harp on the point too much, but anytime someone makes the “why do black people get to say it” argument, I feel confident telling you that that person has no black friends. Not one. Or they would know that most don’t say it either.

I was in Boston for a job interview a few years back. Stopped for a burger in the financial district downtown and heard, between the female bartender and another patron something like 20 N-words as they discussed how she never got tips from “them n___s” in her other job at one of those n_____ clubs. I had heard a lot…

Yeah, obviously, it says Boston right in the name.

Julian Edelman, offered as an example of a good guy she should have married, was charged with sexual assault a couple years ago for sticking his hand up a woman’s skirt without consent in a nightclub. The examples he used really show how much race makes a difference to the author. Both white examples of doing things…

I think this is a red herring, much like the “black people all use the N word” argument you hear on Fox News. This is basing our view of how black people act on what we expect from 17 year olds. I worth with a number of black people that speak clearly and never call each other or anyone else Nigga. This doesn’t…

Because it’s considered out of the ordinary for a black person to be well-spoken; and typically someone using it that way just means a black person is talking more like what the racist asshole thinks a white person talks like.

Julian Edelman was charged with sexual assault 3 years ago. I guess that’s what we should all aspire to. Also, Martha Stewart has done more jail time than Aaron Hernandez. Just sayin’.

That’s one thing you can write if you want to avoid answering the questions. Alternatively you can just not respond. Functionally, it’s the same.

She could have at least helped prepare him for prison. It’s funny that the good example he used is a convicted felon. On top of that Edelman has had run-ins with the law too — believe he was charged with some sort of groping/sexual assault incident not that long ago. Ya know, like a good husband.

What is this from?

Boston. Where the fact that he’s white is really all that matters.

You need to see it in real time, it looks sooo much different when a half second becomes 2 or 3.

He replied as if my post didn’t say “standing” when that is in the sentence he focused on. Cross-checks to the back of the neck on standing players are fucking non-existent. Have you played hockey? Can you name a time that’s happened? It doesn’t need to be said because it’s so obvious. If he doesn’t fall, the stick is…