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TheGrandExquisitor t1_j2707v1 wrote

Reply to comment by TheHoundsRevenge in Moving to Massachusetts next summer. by pastywhiterunner

I also saw a whole city council of those "Mass Progressives," go to extraordinary lengths just to prevent a colleague from becoming city council president (an almost entirely ceremonial role,) because he was Dominican. So...yeah. Naw dude, you got some serious problems. Most states do, but MA just shoves their head in the sand over it. Another example - The equity program that was supposed to go forward when weed was legalized. Total fucking failure because somehow the equity program never happened.

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TheHoundsRevenge t1_j271eio wrote

And what’s your evidence for them not voting for this Dominican person? Did they say this? Posted on their social media? Or just a feeling? No one’s saying Mass is perfect but cmon go live in Idaho and let me know in another 150 years when they finally elect a person of color to the governors office how it is.

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TheGrandExquisitor t1_j272ahv wrote

Literally admitted it in the newspaper.

Also, Idaho has only been a state for like 130 years. Took MA far longer to elect their ONE governor who wasn't white. Plus, you just glossed over the failure of the equity program.

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TheHoundsRevenge t1_j271xz3 wrote

As for the equality program I can guarantee you POC were not left out due to race. Has everything to do with money and connections. Which while corrupt and unfair (like I said mass isn’t perfect) has nothing to do with caring about race.

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MyDogSmellsLikeMyCat t1_j2a44yb wrote

If we ignore the redlining that’s so obvious, then yeah, equality all around.

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TheHoundsRevenge t1_j2arueq wrote

Once again redlining in Mass is mostly economically based which while unfair is still not based on race. Rich people don’t want poor people in their neighborhoods regardless of race and I say this a a child of parents from Fall River and moved to a slightly less ghetto town of wareham for my childhood.

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