I was born in Virginia but moved to the Boston area as a very young child. I believe Boston is one of the most racist places I have ever seen. There are neighborhoods in Boston such as Charlestown or Southie where Blacks can be in deep shit if they wander there by accident. Now it’s nothing like what Blacks faced in the south during the era of slavery, but if people think “liberal” Boston is a wonderful town with no anti-Black racism, I have news for you. And I might add that in my trips to southern cities during my adult life, I found that relations between Blacks and Whites were more cordial than what I observed in places like Boston and Chicago.