The First Anti-Ted Kennedy Tea Party: Boston's Anti-Busing Brigades

[Dabo082]

I believe that you should be able to send your kids to any school you want if you are willing to pay out of pocket. As a Black American coming from the days of segregation I feel that Black children would learn better in schools taught by Black teachers. But wait it might be paid for by your tax dollars.humm noooo. How about separate but equal schools for Asians , Mexicans , and on and on and on.LOL

[nauort23]

Starting in Jan 1973, I was being bussed to what had been an all-black school in the DC suburbs, down here BELOW THE MASON-DIXON LINE. No rioting; no fighting. I made good friends at my new school. My cousins in Richmond, VA were going to desegrated schools for years before that; no problems. But look at these supposedly "Catholic", "liberal", racist white trash a**holes. What is it about the "LIBERAL YANKEE" that always thinks he's exempt from the policies he imposes on other Americans?

[AmericanFenian]

@nauort23

What is the purpose of busing? It has cost Boston millions every year to run near empty buses. It's a bogus concept. If it's supposed to give a few children a better education, but what about the rest which remain or are shipped to the failing schools? Busing doesn't work, the government needs to get out of the way and let the people control the schools. Then if they fail its the communities fault. But instead nearly every state run school is a failure and bankrupts.

[R0773N]

Ted Kennedy = drunken woman killer

[nightintheruts617]

a disgrace to the Irish American people, Kennedy was pure scum, and created alot of hate a violence in Boston and got alot of people hurtand killed and created a deep racial tension witch STILL exist (on a smaller scale) in Boston Public, busing did not end until 1999 PURE SCUM,

[OgeeElle]

They used us kids like guinnea pigs. WE, the kids who went to the schools in Boston back then were the ones who payed the price for the politicians who wanted busing to move so fast-desegregation was already happening. They jsut didn't let it happen naturally, they pushed it, and a lot of us got hurt physically and metally by their decision.

[3martijns]

teddie boy was a Radical Leftist, much like obammie.

[blacksamcooke]

Ah, the good old days.

[PracticalMormonism]

No, this is just south boston, which had and still has a lot of lower class Irish workers, who today will be drunk off their butts. The rest of the city and the state of Massachusetts is pretty open minded.

[Hperman09]

@PracticalMormonism and gay marriage in Massachusetts is legal there! you guys are lucky bastards. :).

[aggrocontrol]

Ignorance and condescension are an ugly couple.

[SamuelCyrus]

Exactly.  Thank you.

[Silvsilvchan]

Fair enough.

But being raped in the butt shouldn't be celebrated too hotly just because it isn't a hot poker in the eye.

[nightintheruts617]

gotta love that Scott Brown

[nightintheruts617]

fuck kennedy and realy fuck garrity they put alot of people at risk of serious hate crimes and creataed more racial tension in boston than ever befor, most of it is still very much there busing didnt end until 1999

[nesterhaus]

Chappy Ted remains dead-

[MrRedExxon28]

Wow. Ted Kennedy was lambasted by people in the capital of his own state. That must have Really SUCKED for him (probably not, because he didn't show any emotion).

BTW, has anyone besides me noticed that all three Kennedy's (the ones that were senators) died related to head injuries?

[Silvsilvchan]

Immigration: I hate amnesty. Just make it easier to become a citizen in the first place.

Cancer Research: Good job there I guess?

Health Insurance: Socialized Medicine is horrible.

Apartheid: We should mind our own business.

And so on.

And a guy that voted for the patriot act, real ID, then the FISA amendment was for civil rights? HA. I don't think so.

[Bigbird5553]

@Silvsilvchan socialized medicine works better then our own healthcare system in the USA. You only need to look at Britains system, Hollands, denmarks or frances to know that. Their life expectancy goes up. While our goes down

[Silvsilvchan]

Fair enough. That's something I can get behind.

But I would argue wanting to wed some one of your own race (or a specific race if you have one of those fetishes. Do you have the yellow fever?) isn't inherently racist.

Moving away because "THE ITALIANS ARE RUINING THIS NEIGHBORHOOD" is pretty racist though. Direct quote from an angry old man I know by the way. XD

[Silvsilvchan]

A republican who voted for socialized medicine when he was in the state's senate yay for no difference

[Silvsilvchan]

HEY MCFLY!

[Silvsilvchan]

I felt having to tack on "government sanctioned" to both segregation and desegregation would be redundant, unnecessary, and insulting to your intelligence as it should have been assumed.

[Silvsilvchan]

If a black man prefers black women is he racist? If an Asian only has Asian friends, are they racist?

Yeah. It is to a degree, and still is when a white person does that. But that's human nature and their right. If a black man and a white woman want to marry that's their business as well. If they aren't hurting any one else why give a damn? Oh I forgot. People like you enjoy abusing government power to enlighten others. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

[Silvsilvchan]

Johnson had Kennedy shot. =P

[Silvsilvchan]

Pardon me, I was referring (pretty obvious if you have any reasoning skills) to forcing people to desegregate. People can, by their choice, segregate. You know. With out the government forcing them to. In fact, many people do. Many communities, even countries, are made up of people of like mind and background. They willingly segregate. Imagine that, moron.

[WelfareRobot]

Ted was ultimately only loved by far-left, anti-American whackos. His vision of America was the complete opposite of what our Founders intended; he would have been a much better fit in the European Union or even Soviet Union. Regarding the snub about JFK, grow up. It's hard to say what JFK would have grown into had he lived, but from what I've seen, he was the last Democrat who didn't play into anti-white, anti-male "victim"/identity politics which is the base of the Democratic party since then.

[Silvsilvchan]

Well hey, lets not go all out on Kennedy. His patriot act vote and other such nonsense made him anti-American, I will agree to that.

But he voted against virtually every war we've went into aside from Afghanistan and if he'd had his way that would have saved the lives of countless American young people.

Unless you believe the wars were necessary then I guess you are entitled to utterly despise him on every level. =P

[wildpeachatl737]

What am I supposed to take from this video other than the fact that Tea Partiers tend to activate over issues with racial overtones?

The Boston school desegregation controversy was greatly motivated by White South Boston parents who objected to their children being bused to schools, such as Roxbury, in what they considered (perhaps rightly so) to be an unsafe neighborhood and led to White Flight. The exodus only continued to make the desegregation problem worse.

[wildpeachatl737]

Not to say that there's anything wrong with desegreation, but how we work toward the solution that's been the problem. You should be abe to attend your local school and those schools should be funded the same as those in more affluent sections. It's the neighborhoods themselves that require improvement that will attact a more varied socio-economic classes to populate them and bring about the changes in demographics.

[jsh78mang]

Was it racial or the point that innocent children were stripped from schools they were in and forced to go to other schools. Police snipers on the roofs, Armed police in schools, So that a bunch of old whiote guys would not feel racist. There were other solutions. "Boston schools are a scapegoat for those who have failed to solve the housing, economic, and social problems of the black citizen," loius day hicks the creator of ROAR.

[1martuska]

Is this after he killed Mary Jo Kopechne and reported "the accident almost 24 hrs. later ? Hell is still having a " welcome home tea party" for Teddy.

[NoEoAoRo]

It's very easy to misinterpret the motives of these angry crowds. I wouldn't be surprised if racism was a factor, but after having researched this a tiny bit, I have to concede there is a bit more to it. I couldn't imagine being forced to be bussed to the other side of town to go to school just because some powerful people wanted "diversity."

However I doubt most people will think of this as anything other than racism, and juxtaposing this with the tea parties is pretty bad for their PR.

[NoEoAoRo]

Wait... let me correct myself. There was definitely prejudice involved. Many whites thought that poorer, majority Black schools were poor learning environments by virtue of their racial composition. This along with certain economic incentives led many to flee places like Southie and inner-cities.

Nonetheless, this in no way justifies a gov't forcing unwilling people to associate. E.g., I liked being able to walk to my school.

[NoEoAoRo]

And I liked the people I was around for the most part. I would hate being forced to bus further away to go to a place with people I did not know, just because some politician didn't like the current make ups the student bodies.

[jsh78mang]

Honestly if you think these people are racists lets see what it would feel like. Say one day you get a letter from the state saying that because of racial tentions with Islamics your child will now be shipped half way across town to an islamic school and their is nothing you can do about it. Would you not be pissed off. Their anger is jusified and not racist. Were some at these rallies of probaly there are always a few rotten apples in a barrel. continued .....

[jsh78mang]

However the anger comes from the inability to find a better way. One I already noted was Boston school superintendent Frederick Gillis proposed an "open enrollment plan" that would have allowed families to send their children to any school in the city. Nope force kids out of their enviorment. Into schools now like prisons with snipers on the roofs and armed police patroling class rooms. All Because a few adults felt guilty. Continued....

[jsh78mang]

I would also like to note to our left leaning friends that this is 1974 and the ring leader of the ROAR movement. Was none other then woman rights activist and Democrat house REP(1 term) Loius Day Hicks and I quote " "Boston schools are a scapegoat for those who have failed to solve the housing, economic, and social problems of the black citizen," Hicks said. Wait that dose not sound racist...........

[SamuelCyrus]

I am an old white guy - perhaps obviously - was young yet aware of the desegregation events that took us a bit along the path of repentance and recovery. I talked to a African-American friend a few years later and he told me that it was interesting to him that whites (me) were so upset about bussing when he (black) had been bussed by numerous white schools to attend his. Think flesh-colored bandaids. I am no fan of Sen T. Kennedy, but in this case I am. God Bless you Sen Kennedy.

[jsh78mang]

Wow never learned anyhting in life did you. Forcing people to do something dosen't solve the problem. Forcing change you want dose not make it better what about those students lives they had to leave their schools their friends. Going to prison like conditions. All so that a couple of adults could stop feeling guilty. Of course your friend didn't mind they (black Americans) were used to being treated like shit with no rights back then.

[SamuelCyrus]

Interesting. My African American friend just wanted to go to a neighborhood school but was not allowed to because the closest 'neighborhood school' was white. So he spent an extra two hours every day being bussed past all of the white neighborhood schools to be put in 'his' school which was all black. Like the beautiful six year old girl in the Rockwell painting who walked to her school past cursing, spitting white adolts, she just wanted to go her neighborhood May God forgive us!

[jsh78mang]

So what your saying is there was no other way to handle the situation? As I have posted before there were. The problem is also in your math there where only 2-3 schools that were "All" white at this time.One in southie (mostly irish) the other mostly Italian. While there were 13 mostly black(80 percent or higher) schools. in this area. I find your B.S. rebutle to be just that. B.S. God can forgive you sir.I have a clear concious.

[Silvsilvchan]

Both segregation and desegregation are wrong.

Let people live, work, and school where they want.

Kennedy didn't believe this at any point of his life.

So, no offense, but you can blessings him by yourself, just like the Wallace supporters can. I despise them both.

[WelfareRobot]

Don't you understand that you're falling into how they frame the debate? You can be talking about how you don't like nationalized "health care" and people like Chris Matthews literally, out of the blue, will call you "racist" for that, even though you literally mentioned nothing about race. Same thing for people who are worried about the Islamification of Europe, they will call you "racist", as if Islam is a race. You can't win with people that far gone, so forget about them.

[njedinjedi]

you don't have to be a bigot not to want your children around black kids, it's just common sense

[sheeplols]

That's fackin haardcore chief!

[chuska8383]

THIS IS COMPLETE NONSENSE!!!

Ted Kennedy was NOT a respectable person. Ted Kennedy was a schmuck. Take half an hour out of your day and research his life and his "achievements" and see for yourself. Do not swallow this notion that his opponents back then (or now!) are racists. This is a liberal parlor trick to purposefully over marginalize the opposition and it is a sham!

Furthermore, why the hell are we talking so much about health care? Don't we have enough straws on the camels back?

[AmericanFenian]

@chuska8383

Kennedys = Shame of Irish-Americans

They got rich by ripping off their own people.

[AmericanFenian]

@chuska8383

Kennedys = Shame of Irish-Americans

They got rich by ripping off their own people.

[AmericanFenian]

@chuska8383

Out of all the Kennedys I dislike, Ted is at the top of the list. The man was a scumbag and his family would do what ever was necessary to get ahead. It's sad that their the first family which comes to mind when people think about Irish-Americans.

[yamagoof]

@nunurox Ummmm, he was alive at the time, oh one who pays attention.

[WelfareRobot]

We should care what she thinks why, exactly? We need to tailor the Tea Parties to people like Janeane Garofalo? I don't think so!

[rationalegoist90]

Wait so why is ReasonTV glorifying a whole bunch of goddamn bigot white supremacists?

[FatherTime89]

so they're white supremacists for wanting to be able to choose where their child goes to school?

[rationalegoist90]

Sure a person should be able to choose where their kid goes to school I am totally and utterly an advocate of that, but these people are the ones wanting to control where other people's kids go to school, because they just want to make sure none of them "naggers" are allowed to go to school with their kids. They don't care about school choice, they just care about realizing their bigotry through the law.

[FatherTime89]

Busing worked both ways, they would also bus white kids into primarily black schools.

[vdmerwe]

they're racist because their motives seem clearly founded in racism.

[bigc028282]

Your a racist, and "HOPE and CHANGE" is DEAD MF. Get used to it. The "middle", that gets these puppets elected, just sent another message to Wash. BOTH parties better stop spinning and hear it.

Chappaquiddick Ted has been picking his pineapple for awhile now, and it's well deserved.

[jsh78mang]

Because and seem do not apply as facts just because that is what you see dose not mean that is what is. Wise man once said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

[jmatt926]

@ jsh78mang

In the future, could you please use punctuation/proper grammar? I'm not trying to embarrass you or say you're stupid. I like that you're sharing your opinions, but it's just too time-consuming to read, given that it's only a comment on YouTube.

[Ironhand09]

@FatherTime89 Wonder where ole Ted and the rest of the elitist Kennedy Clan sent their kids? Gee I'm sure there were lots of black kids there.....LOL LOL!!

[AmericanFenian]

@Ironhand09

I'm from Illinois and our wonderful along with rest of elitist scum running Chicago send their kids to private schools. These same people then condemn people who want school vouchers so people can send their kids to Catholic institutions and other private schools. Maybe more children in Chicago would be able to read if they allowed for school vouchers.

[xkeltoix]

lol @ capitalism

[averagejoe040]

I think Ted had brain cancer even then. Would explain a lot.

[jsh78mang]

Hey I know he was a doushbag but you keep brining him up. It dosen't help me forget him.

[yammyspeed13]

Well, at least he stopped drinking.

[order9066]

The Boston Busing Riots never happened college kids. You will not be taught this. Move along, nothing to see here. And don't google "the Soiling of Old Glory". Go back to your Xbox.

[kev3d]

"The crowd would not cahm down". You can take the girl outta Boston, but but not the Boston outta the girl.

[truvelocity]

A law to integrate school systems.

I can't remember the name of the law but it included an act to force African American kids to be bussed long distances to white schools.

The demonstration was anti-bussing, which I don't blame them, because I went to a bussed school and those poor kids were exhausted and angry for leaving earlier without breakfast.

Kennedy was for it, because he wanted to integrate schools so he was booe'd.

I was kid who was for integration but not bussing.

[jsh78mang]

U.S. Supreme Court released its ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education (1954). In Brown, Chief Justice Earl Warren claimed that segregation is psychologically harmful to black children and implied that all-black classrooms are inherently inferior. "inherently inferior". So much for sticking up for the black man.

[truvelocity]

Yes, that's the act, Brown v. Board of Edu... I have to say, that back in time, the white neighborhoods didn't want any black kids attending their schools at the time and even though that act was passed, the schools found ways to get around allowing them into the schools systems. So, extreme measures were taken, because black schools were inferior at the time. Yes, so much for sticking up for the black man when our government can't provide proper funding for minority schools.

[jsh78mang]

Agreed so in order to sweep that under the rug (poorly funded minoity schools)they forced some children to leave the schools they were in to another school. Whole new game, had to start at the bottom of the totem pole, make new friends, etc. Thats hard for a kid while still trying to keep there old friends comuting across town and being under (prison like) constant police supervision.Never mind trying to keep up a good grade average I'd be a pissed parent to.

[truvelocity]

Exactly.

[elsquibbs]

When I was a kid, we had the METCO program which bussed black kids to the suburbs to go to school.

[libertyplayground]

Forced busing using coercion was a horrible policy and horribly inefficient. Good for them.

[Rayvok]

I'm confused, what was the issue here, and where did Kenedy stand? Was it desegregation in Boston?

[jsh78mang]

Alot of people think it was about race. However it was about freedom to chose most of the protestors were mothers whom children had been told that instead of the school they had grown to love now had to go to a mostly (90)% black school. Taking away the childs and mothers choice. The schools at this time were patroled like prisons with snipers stationed on the roof tops. One teacher even said it was like waking up to go to prison. Is segregation wrong? Not if it is chosen. Continued..

[jsh78mang]

We don't make white and black kids sit together at lunch do we? Also there were other ways to do it. Like Boston school superintendent Frederick Gillis proposed an "open enrollment plan" that would have allowed families to send their children to any school in the city. No they forced there way into peoples daily lives and made it hell for both sides involved. However progressives and NAACP saw it diffrently and enacted unconstitutional (yes it is debateable in the De facto sense) laws.

[tattypatty]

so desegregation was a bad thing?

[libertyplayground]

@tattypatty no forced busing was.

[vdmerwe]

It's these videos and their comment sections that demonstrate the abundance of rightists and social conservatives amongst the US libertarian movement.

This infiltration of the genuine classical liberal movement is disgusting.

I'm sure there are many people around here who agree..

[d0861]

Agreed.

[2bRealist]

agreed

[betodesign101]

Dead Ted was a disgrace! hope he's burning in hell for what he did to Mary Jo.

[katey1dog]

CHAPPAQUIDITIC.

[rkoliver1]

It's Bush's fault!

[return135]

they should do this to pretty well every politician.

[WelfareRobot]

Ted Kennedy was perhaps the greatest traitor this nation has ever known. His 1965 Immigration Act alone puts him in the running for the very worst. (He also had backdoor contacts with the Soviets in the 80s, trying to sabotage the Reagan agenda.)

[HeadTater]

...and yet people make him out to be this saint or some kind of hero now that he's dead. Funny how influential the media is and how simply being around a long time makes you somehow great. This is why we need term limits for Congress (or at least a limit on consecutive terms).