Good evening.
As we all know, in one of her greatest challenges, busing.
I went up to Southie High.
We all knew something was going It was chaotic.
The place was ringed wit There were truckfuls of cameras.
The crowd was so violent, all I could think of was what would happen if I didn't make it to the bus?
When I reported to Kevin White on opening day that no Black child had been killed, we thought that It was the saddest day in Boston's history.
Busing will never work in this city, never.
Difficulties over segregation and discrimination In Boston, the neighborhoods are their own little sort of worlds.
People from South Boston didn't come into Roxbury.
People from Roxbury didn't go into South Boston.
There were patterns of racial discrimination everywhere.
Black schools were missing basic resources.
We felt that if we moved our students to where they were spending the money, we would benefit.
And the mo I can remember it was an angry, angry time.
I don't want to bus my child to any school.
I want to have a good school in my community.
We were told, your kid canno Wouldn#t you be upset?
If I had been assigned to I wouldn't have gone.
I did People were generally afraid for their children.
Many Black parents were saying, #We can't send our kids into the It's not a question of whether t e Constitution can be enforced.
It's only a question of at what cost?