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To: Tony Viola who wrote (122543)	12/13/2000 12:07:30 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 186894

RE:"Of course, I have an answer that relates to sports. The Red Sox were the last major league team to bring on a black player, and they didn't look very hard as it was Pumpsie Green. The Celtics, with their 8 of 9 world titles in the Russell, Sam Jones and KC Jones (and also Cousy, Havlicek, Ramsey) rarely sold out the garden. The Bruins, mediocre in that before Bobby Orr period, always did. Back to the Celtics, in the Bird era, you couldn't touch a seat. Sports is just a piece of it, and I can't explain the New England prejudice in an overall fashion, but GV is right." Mass. is supposed to be a harbor of liberal thought. For some reason it fails in application. Some of the worst school busing riots occuring in Boston in the sixties. Integration in the south was far easier. Jim

To: Tony Viola who wrote (122543)	12/13/2000 12:09:45 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 186894

Remember the level of hostility in boston over bussing was far greater that ever existed in nyc. Maybe Mass in general and Boston in particular had more working class ethnic folks than other cities. NYC, for instance, always had Wall Street and a strong liberal intellectual community to politically balance the prejudices of those folks who felt threatened by upward mobility in the black community(union jobs) as well as inner city crime(wrongly id'd as a racial proclivity). I guess the legacy of those times still continues in some ways as per Jim's post. RE: Bill Russell To me he was the epitome of an independent thinking man and he received shabby treatment by the Boston fans.