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David Luke, your seemingly well-considered answer fails to account for why buses filled with black kids from Roxbury were pelted with rocks when they drove into Southie. Dismissing the issue by saying "Boston may have some history" with racism is like saying "President Lincoln may have an extra hole in his head." And…