What is being done to the teacher who allowed this to go up? This wasn’t a harmless mistake, it was by design. The exhibit has been removed, though we know that this does not remove the harm that was done. However, the impact, particularly in some selections depicting West Roxbury and South Boston, was one where students saw stereotyped and disparaging statements about communities to which they belong. Now they have to “consider stereotypes” about their neighborhoods in order to feel bad about where they come from. That was back when kids just learned things about the world. I learned about their food, culture, government, and traditions. I had the last pick so I got stuck with Iceland. When I was in 8th grade we did projects about countries in Europe and we all had to pick one. The intent of the assignment was for students to write personal pieces that consider stereotypes about the neighborhood in which they live, with the ultimate aim of countering biases from within and outside of their communities. Principal Rachel Skerritt sent out this email after the picture started making the rounds and the school received phone calls from angry westie whites: This is what a child’s brain looks like on critical race theory. Kids who live there play organized sports, which is a bad thing because only racist white people play organized sports. The residents are all old Irish white people who were featured as extras in The Town and The Departed, and they’re all racist because they don’t vote for communists. Everyone is a Trump supporting anti-masker with blue lives matter flag in their front yard, and all of those are inherently bad things. You have to be white and rich to live in West Roxbury, unlike the Back Bay, Roslindale, the North End, and Jamaica Plain where rents are cheap and white people are few and far between. So it’s not surprising to see a child repeat stereotypes like this: In June of 2020 there was a back the blue rally at a West Roxbury rotary that was denounced by former Mayoral candidate John Connolly for being racist.
I hate WR (West Roxbury).” texted Oliver-Davila. Last June two School Committee members were forced to resign after racist text messages they sent during a meeting about white West Roxbury parents became public. Parents there are active in their children’s education and apply to get into the city’s prestigious exam schools at higher rates than parents in other parts of the city, which is why the communists want to eliminate the exam process.įor those reasons it’s become socially acceptable for communists to openly shit on this part of Boston and say racist things about the people who live there. Politically speaking it is not a “conservative” part of Boston, it’s just slightly more conservative than the other communist neighborhoods.
It is far removed and free from meth mile junkies, Mike Giannetti, and Monica Cannon-Grant, which is why people like living there.