Forced Busing in Boston: Desegregation of Schools_JF MG

[roberthacksley]

8:18 - cute attention whore boy

[Jahsole]

Thanks for this neutral report. It shined light on the dynamics involved that lead to the Busing  decision. One has to know and understand the pieces which brought about forced busing.

[4882dnyce]

Great video! If you like this, you should read Rebound. Great book, great vid

[DomRoxBos]

As someone who grew up in Boston during the 70's (busing era) and went to Boston public schools during that time...I would like to thank you and commend you for a job well done.

[FAXBEAT]

I am Filipino. I can never understand why America is so hard to understand.

[BrinaaNicholee]

The little girl in this video who speaks on how the treatment isn't fair is Joanne Nichols (my mother). Who would have known that, that same little girl would grow up to be a Northeastern University Graduate with a Bachelors Degree in Nursing Science, and currently in school for her Masters Degree. She is a three time business owner/entrepreneur, Registered Nurse for the VA Medical Center (10 years), and her greatest achievement of all, the loving mother to two beautiful daughters! I♥U

-Sabrina

[19EHF]

@BrinaaNicholee O wow thats your mother. What she said nearly brought me to tears because in the end it is all about the kids and whats best for them. The truth is that intergration wasnt a big deal to kids because kids naturally get along with other races (until their parents fill their head with racist garbage). But congrajulations I know u must be soo proud of your mother. such an accomplished woman

[threeby8887]

@19EHF co-sign!

[DomRoxBos]

@BrinaaNicholee That is wonderful to see....like your mom, I went to Boston Public schools back then as well...and to tell you the truth, the younger kids were pretty cool...what messed things up were the adults & older teens that were spewing hatred....not to mentioned it was all over TV & radio....as someone who grew up in Boston and worked for one of it's Mayors, I must say that the city has come a long way when it comes to race relations/racial tolerance since then....

[KSumable]

@BrinaaNicholee This may seem like a really random question but I'm doing a junior thesis and I want to use a quote from your mom, would it be possible for you to tell me what school she was being bused to and what neighborhood she lived in. It would help me SOOO much, you don't even know. But if you can't that is fine.

[ketamae]

OMG! I can't believe my sister found this video!! My mother is the little girl speaking at 6:32...I have never seen a pic of her younger than 16!! My grandma would be so tickled.

[00Daizy00]

Nicely Done!

[TonyGonzo1988]

I don't how I feel about this. I mean part of me liked the idea of desegration. Giving everyone the same opportunities regardless of color. But at the same time, look at all the trouble it caused. Of course there is going to be racism. They wanted everyone to be together and get along with everyone else. But that couldn't happen. I never have understood racism. How can you dislike somebody because of the way they look? They can't help that. People are so ignorant and wrong to hate!!

[brsfan66]

They wanted to equalize the races.So instead of pushing white kids to Roxbury and black kids to South Boston just to created a power keg.It seemed experimental.So why just bus these kids in just Boston.They should have made it more expanded and bused the black kids to lets say Lexington,Wellsley or maybe Marblehead and bring the white kids from those towns to Roxbury,Mattapan or Dorchester and then we can equalize races and education all in one shot.Sounds simple doesn't it ?

[threeby8887]

@brsfan66 Yeah, but instead they decided to leave it at sending kids from impoverished Roxbury to equally impoverished Southie and vice-versa. Not one of Boston's ruling class advocated busing kids from Southie and Roxbury to their middle-class and upper-class public and private schools and vice-versa. Kind of makes you wonder who the true racists are.

[mooch9668]

...and what's the final outcome? Simply white flight to private and parochial schools. Let it be!

[nitz1964]

ALL THIS CAUSED WAS MOST OF THE WHITE PEOPLE TO LEAVE THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM , TODAY AND FOR YEARS THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS MOSTLY ALL BLACK AND HISPANIC. MOST OF THE WHITES LEFT FOR PRIVATE SCHOOLS OR LEFT BOSTON TOTALLY.NOTHING WAS ACHIEVED .THIS PERSON DOING THIS VIDEO REALLY IS JUST READING FROM HISTORY BOOKS . SHE OBVIOUSLY WANTS TO MAKE THE REST OF THE WORLD THINK THE PLAN WAS ACHIEVED WRONG (LOSING)

[IamKesyerSoze]

@nitz1964 It's weird, isn't it? Most of the Boston Public School system is Black/latinos, but whites make up more then half the city's population. I worked in the Boston public school area which dealt with registering kids for school and placing them in schools and I can tell ya: The school system is still crappy today. And even after the desegregation ruling (1974) my grandmother was told by one of the teachers what "race" to put her children as to get them into certain schools. Sad. 

[roslindale12]

I can't believe the truth of the Forced Busing debacle is still being obscured. Desegregation was never effectively acheived. Boston Schools are now 88% minority. A school system that once educated over 100,000 students has dwindled to 57,000. It drove thousands of families out of the city, wiping out the middle-class.

[maryfbex]

Forced busing destroyed the Boston schools and the city as a whole. My father was a proud Boston Police Sargeant working int the schools at that time and it was a mess! The blacks would not let the white teacher teach. They turned their backs on the white teachers and played their boom boxes. Our family managed to escpate to the suburbs, as most whites did, but some weren't that lucky. Now, we have to pass laws to get (mostly) blacks to pull up their pants! It's a disgrace!

[CHRISTEN9844]

@maryfbex please im betting your a racist wops you started attacking africans because we wanted to get an education whites are the most racist pieces of shit cant wait till hispanics take over hahah im loving it bitch

[nav6maini]

I did a performance on boston busing this year. Small world

[cmsracc]

good job.

[toml919]

The photos of the boys with signs indicating their refusal to go to school with negros, were not even from Boston. It seems the creators of this film did not want to waste a photo like that when they were trying to tarnish Boston and disparage the image of its residents. NIce one sided liberal indictment against a city and its people. Contrary to what Judge Garrity stated, over time many people left the Boston Public School system and busing is considered by most people to be a failure.

[CHRISTEN9844]

@toml919 its reall southie racist fuckers african pride fucking wops and micks

[TheGhostFromPlanetX]

I regret not saving the newspaper the day that forced busing was shot down; I was at times the only white kid in a class of 35 blacks. And thats supposed to be "integration?

[fatherstoo]

Boston schools were not segregated in the 1970s they like most cities they were neighborhood schools that were attended by the kids that lived in the neighborhood.

[Toflah]

Forced busing destroyed the middle class in Boston and many lives were ruined as a result. Judge Garrity should rot in hell for what he did.

[TheGed007]

This is a very comprehensive and well made short film, covering the events surrounding Boston's forced busing in the 1970's and the historical context.