Wow I would have assumed ORH is always more extreme than the airports closer to the coast. Interesting.

And when, if ever, will we stop using a peninsula on the harbor as our gauge for "Boston Temperature"?

I find myself looking up Norwood Memorial Airport's temperature instead because it's much more representative of the temperature if you're not in a neighborhood on the water.

One concern white parents often have over sending their kids to global-majority schools is the worry about them being “the only white kid” in their class.

Looking at tiny Ruby Bridges – enduring threats and slurs to walk to a school where she sat in a class of one – should put that in perspective.

“So many people here fucking hate us, dude.”

Meanwhile Jackie Jr. provided a cautionary tale of a [gasp] Rutgers education:

Ebert’s “Empathy Machine” is the new PopeMobile.

Similar feelings here

In Boston we went through decades of court-ordered desegregation only to leave a loophole for white and privileged families: Using selective admissions schools that siphon the 1/4 of high schoolers who perform well on tests into schools where they won’t ever encounter students with disabilities.

Excuse me!? It’s not to reproduce the existing social order!?

One concern white parents often have over sending their kids to global-majority schools is the worry about them being “the only white kid” in their class.

Looking at tiny Ruby Bridges – enduring threats and slurs to walk to a school where she sat in a class of one – should put that in perspective.

One of the tricks that black and white photographs play with our minds is that they allow us to imagine these events as much older than they really are.

This is all recent memory.

One of the tricks that black and white photographs play with our minds is that they allow us to imagine these events to be much older than they really are.

This is all recent memory.

Norman Rockwell painted the scene of Bridges walking to school with her escorts, past racial slurs and thrown produce.

He titled the painting “The Problem We All Live With”.

In many ways – as Americans have resegregated schools – it is a problem we live with 65 years later.

Ruby’s parents Lucille and Abon lost jobs and were banned from shopping at the local grocery store. Her grandparents were forced off their land as sharecroppers.

In a move that foreshadowed white Massive Resistance to school desegregation, white parents pulled their children out of Bridges’ school.

Barbara Henry was the only white teacher who would teach Ruby, and she taught her alone in the classroom.