Every day brings a new story of an enterprising and productive brother gunned down in the streets of cities where the death of black people - especially of black men - has become so commonplace that shock is no longer the reaction when it occurs. Whether it’s Chicago or St. Louis, New Orleans or Philadelphia, lives of black people cut too short is as expected as humidity in a summer afternoon.
I’m always taken aback by how different my experience in Boston has been. Like any city, there are occasional shootings here, but they’re too infrequent to be considered a problem. Unlike the aforementioned areas, Boston isn’t plagued by a scourge of black death that grips its citizens with fear.
This is routine massacre of black people is only happening in certain cities. Black men aren’t terrorizing the black community in Boston the way they are in places like Chicago or Philly.
Not all black people in this country are the same. Some of us are different. I told y’all it’s a lot of safer for black people to live in New England, but y’a keep sleeping.
I NEVER feel like I need a strap up here. You just have to experience New England to understand what I mean.
If you’re young and planning to start a family, you should give serious consideration to moving up here. It doesn’t even have to be Boston, or even Massachusetts. The surrounding states that make up the rest of New England are just as comparatively safe for black people.