One of the great purveyors of racism of our time

Are you for real? First off don't compare a large city like Boston with a small city like Worcester, apples and oranges. Boston (and I'm including it's immediate surrounding cities,towns) is VERY diverse and the city itself is about 50/50 caucasian/minority (whatever that means.) African Americans make up about 12-13% of the total US population (very high for a minority group compared to European statistics) and in Boston that rate is about 25%, twice the national average (compare that to L.A, S.F. and Seattle with all have around 7-8% African American population.)..............I'm white and I grew up about 4 blocks from Bromley Heath/Jackson Square and as for crime, who the hell is kidding who? In any given large metro area the VAST majority of the violent crimes occur in inner-city neighborhoods......this is true for Boston........the VAST majority of violent crimes including homicide in the City of Boston involve young black men; this isn't a theory it's a hard fact. If young black men were removed from the population the City of Boston's homicide and other violent crime rate would reach historic lows. This again is a fact not a theory. This would be repeated across the country, even internationally; London is experiencing a black crime wave also but at least they opening talk about it not like here. If you get jumped,assaulted, purse snatched, stabbed, shot,etcetera the odds are extremely high it'll be by a young black male. Only naive and gullible suburbanites and small town folks with either so-called white guilt or a desire to feel socially superior at the expense of working class big city white folks believe otherwise.

"The same could be said with the news reporting on crime in general. We're living in one of the safest periods ever, with crime rates at historic lows, yet people feel crime is just getting worse. It's because it's all they hear on the news, day after day, and it creates a perception that we live in a horribly dangerous world."...........................................................Please, if we have a lower homicide rate than 20-30 years ago it's because trauma treatment is superior and people who would have died from a violent assault today survive.......the rate of violent assaults is very high.....as for smaller crimes, larcenies, even street robberies and assaults those statistics are notoriously unreliable because MOST victims don't bother reporting them to the police knowing (correctly) that it's a waste of time.

As for media reporting there's a huge amount "traditional" media doesn't report......try living in neighborhood where if it's a beautiful warm/hot day many people fear it because that's when the punks and thugs are out in full force.....try living in a neighborhood where many folks love cold snowy winter days because things because it keeps the same punks and thugs indoors. Unfortunately our national and state policies are determined by those who don't have to deal with and probably never experienced such things....I blame the smug suburban middle and upper middle class for many of the continuing and long term urban problems of American cities because they control our political culture and to many of them something happening 8-10 thousand miles away of something remote, academic and abstract like so-called global warmimg is allegedly of greater concern than profoundly urgent social issues right around the corner from them and well within their sphere of influence.