The morning after: Lee vs. Linehan

Adam and MassMarrier you have to be kidding me with these co mments about Jimmy Kelly. You two muist have grown up in Mansions in Wellsely or Newton and drove around with your 5 dollar starbucks coffee or maybe even grew up in pink house in Cambridge with a wraparound porch. It must have beeen soooo tough for the both of you to grow up in school systems that were 99% white where you could walk to school while Eltist judges ordered their social engineering on city residents. Jimmy Kelly saw the injustice of it all, while the elitists in Wellsley in Brookline saw that it was about race, we saw it and lived it for what it was class. While they walked their kids to school the kids in South Boston were ordered to go to parts of the city were cab drivers wouldnt go and had some of the highest crime in the nation. If you were wealthy you could get out if you were on the lower income scale you were screwed it had everything to do with class...

Then at the same time when the residents out in the Socially liberal suburbs were dodging the draft the kids in the city felt a patriotic duty to serve their country. Southie and lost more men in Vietnam then any other neighborhood in the country per capitia. But the liberal elites in Cambridge Wellsely in Brookline still thumbed thier nose at the neighborhood.

He also saw the injustice when Homosexual activists trried to ruin a traditional value family oriented St. Patricks day parade. The activists took their argument to the Supreme Court and it got laughed out of Court with Unanamous 9-0 vote in favor of the South Boston Allied War Veterens Council.

Hey but whatever some hemp wearing pink house living latte drinker Socially liberal thinker form Cambidge /Wellsey or Newton says is right must be right..

If that's what you think about Southie, I am voting for Linehan.

I won't be voting for Bill Linehan because he is not good for Southie.

He pushed to have more public housing near Columbia Park. He is pushing to make the old station on D Street into transitional housing when the residents want it to be an arts center.

This guy is clueless.

It kinda funny when I hear someone say "I lived in neighborhood x my whole life." They say it as if I am supposed to be impressed when in reality I just feel sorry for them because they didnt get a chance to have more experiences.

It's really sad and pathetic.

Hey Adam. I've lived in South Boston all of my Life. I consider myself a "Lunch Bucket"/"Barack Obama" Democrat. Although there were issues that (the late) Jim Kelly and I did not agree on , there was one thing that we did agree with...Forced Busing to achieve Racial Balance in the Boston Public Schools was, and remains, a violation of the People of Boston's unalienated Right to choose what School their Children attend. Moreover, it was an egregious violation of the rights of the (at the time) Minority's of Boston who were grossly misrepresented with respect to this failed Social Experiment. As a result of this failed policy, the existing Schools are near collapse. Apparently some Administrators and People in High Places felt the Money, approximately in the Hundreds of Millions, was best spent on Busing six kids from East Boston to Mattapan. The Social and Demographic changes were significant as well. Parents, both Black and White, who were the backbone of the Economy in Boston fled to the Suburbs to avoid this cataclysmic failure of a Policy. The irony of it all is now that the City is a Majority Minority, and the Boston Public Schools is predominantly Minority, there is no demand for "Racial Balance".
Now, getting back to Jim Kelly. If you had half the backbone he had you would be a Man. However, to insult a Man with the integrity of a Jim Kelly, not to mention that he is deceased, puts you in a category occupied by cowards and sneaks.
Jim Kelly was, and was often credited by his Colleagues both Black and White, as being THE HARDEST WORKING COUNCILOR on the Committee!
Jimmy was the ONLY COUNCILOR that worked (by himself) on Saturdays. There was absolutely NO CALL Jim didn't take from his Constituents, once again, both White and Black!
So Adam, having said that, it begs the question, who really is the bigot? Giving that you know absolutely nothing about Jim Kelly, and the fact that you judge South Boston not by what you have personally experienced, but by what you've read in the News Papers, I'm suggesting that you are the Bigot around these parts!