As a school bus driver from day one of the bussing till the end of school year 1978 in Boston I witnessed the systematic concealment of the violence against Black kids. NBC News was to ride my bus since I had the main route from Roxbury High to G St annex in South Boston in September 1974. They removed me from that route a week before, installing a brand new hire. What were they concealing? We were attacked by a mob hurling lead elbow joints, half brick, rocks and bottles not a half block from the school in plain sight of police and school officials who did not interfere even when we were surrounded by several hundred who began rocking the bus about to tip it over. The only thing that saved us was a dozen or so White picketers with bold lettered signs reading 'WELCOME BLACK STUDENTS TO SOUTHIE HIGH' I hope to publish a book most likely entitled BUS 218. It's important to note that was just DAY ONE. After the first day many incidents some occurring daily, continued to escalate the violence against these kids without ANY provocation! Had I been crazy and irresponsible enough to take photos some would have been candidates for Time Magazine cover. I was told by a fellow driver that the second year when they attempted to desegregate Charlestown High was even more violent. This, coming from a man that felt something in his eye when the windows on his bus were being shattered, stood up from his crouched position and saw a piece of glass fall from his eye. City officials were very professional about sabotaging the desegregation order and concealing from news media how hostile Charlestown and SOUTHIE were and how the Bottom Police had to be replaced by the State Troopers at SOUTHIE.
Almost 50 years since, countless news specials, documentaries, interviews etc.etc.etc., and this is the first time I've heard about the huge numbers of Caucasian children ALREADY being bused before the 1974 school year. Absolutely amazing fact. Good job.
the kids suffered for bad government policy that allowed segregated neighborhoods to exist in the first place. and to fix it, the judge saw the law...but not the people
Crazy. Whats funny is several of the Irish kids that grew up during those times, I knew them, even the Kennedy family said their mother would put them in closet as punishment. I met others who werent from Boston whose mother did the same thing. I think it was a common form of punishment in certain areas. Of course their caretakers didnt forget about them and leave them in the closet. I think there are some racists, but most of it was cultural. People want their children to go to school with those who share their culture and values. Thats where private schools have to come in.
I don’t think I can finish this. It’s become obvious that they’re telling a one-sided story, and I won’t get a full picture of the history. The clip that the kid listened to in the beginning actually sounded like it was a show that was going to be nuanced and present different perspectives. But he dismissed it, bc it wasn’t going to cater to our highly racialized current worldview. I think it was probably much more informative than this video.
As a school bus driver from day one of the bussing till the end of school year 1978 in Boston I witnessed the systematic concealment of the violence against Black kids. NBC News was to ride my bus since I had the main route from Roxbury High to G St annex in South Boston in September 1974. They removed me from that route a week before, installing a brand new hire. What were they concealing?
We were attacked by a mob hurling lead elbow joints, half brick, rocks and bottles not a half block from the school in plain sight of police and school officials who did not interfere even when we were surrounded by several hundred who began rocking the bus about to tip it over. The only thing that saved us was a dozen or so White picketers with bold lettered signs reading 'WELCOME BLACK STUDENTS TO SOUTHIE HIGH'
I hope to publish a book most likely entitled BUS 218. It's important to note that was just DAY ONE. After the first day many incidents some occurring daily, continued to escalate the violence against these kids without ANY provocation! Had I been crazy and irresponsible enough to take photos some would have been candidates for Time Magazine cover. I was told by a fellow driver that the second year when they attempted to desegregate Charlestown High was even more violent. This, coming from a man that felt something in his eye when the windows on his bus were being shattered, stood up from his crouched position and saw a piece of glass fall from his eye. City officials were very professional about sabotaging the desegregation order and concealing from news media how hostile Charlestown and SOUTHIE were and how the Bottom Police had to be replaced by the State Troopers at SOUTHIE.
All children should go to the nearest school to their homes, Regardless of colour, The time moving children to and from school is madness.
Almost 50 years since, countless news specials, documentaries, interviews etc.etc.etc., and this is the first time I've heard about the huge numbers of Caucasian children ALREADY being bused before the 1974 school year.
Absolutely amazing fact.
Good job.
I’m from Roxbury. It was about race. They didn’t hide that at all.
I was watching this on TV from the South, in horror that these people were more racists than rednecks in the South.
@@mikeparker5153 Yessir, my brother. Now u got it Mike.
They used our color as a divider.
Orchard Park in the blg. 💯✊🏾
What matters most is academic achievement.
Where is the proof that forced busing was successful on that basis?
the kids suffered for bad government policy that allowed segregated neighborhoods to exist in the first place.
and to fix it, the judge saw the law...but not the people
EXACTLY!!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
24:01 😵💫 The Con-game of identity politics is intended to divide by design but such activists seek a Utopia for Utopian’s far to often.
Crazy. Whats funny is several of the Irish kids that grew up during those times, I knew them, even the Kennedy family said their mother would put them in closet as punishment. I met others who werent from Boston whose mother did the same thing. I think it was a common form of punishment in certain areas. Of course their caretakers didnt forget about them and leave them in the closet. I think there are some racists, but most of it was cultural. People want their children to go to school with those who share their culture and values. Thats where private schools have to come in.
one sided
Black brothers and sisters have had it hard for 400 dam years in this country and we still catching hell
What matters is academic achievement.
Where is the proof that forced busing was successful on that basis?
I don’t think I can finish this. It’s become obvious that they’re telling a one-sided story, and I won’t get a full picture of the history.
The clip that the kid listened to in the beginning actually sounded like it was a show that was going to be nuanced and present different perspectives. But he dismissed it, bc it wasn’t going to cater to our highly racialized current worldview. I think it was probably much more informative than this video.
So one program that doesn’t completely center the black experience, and it’s a problem 🙄
What matters most is academic achievement.
Where is the proof that forced busing was successful on that basis?