In fact, with the increasing popularity of twitter, many people don’t even try to hide behind a shroud of anonymity anymore. Most recently, with the release of the Hunger Games movie, there was a widely reported instance of apparent dissatisfaction and disapproval with the fact that many of the “good” characters in the movie were black. Of course, as soon as these users became aware that their tweets were being reported on major news sources like the Huffington Post, without their usernames redacted, they either deleted their tweets and made their accounts private or shut down their accounts altogether.

I apologize for not providing a more substantive response (it certainly deserves one and I would like to come back to it in the future), but I wanted to say for now that reading the posts in that link made me really ashamed to call Boston home. I suppose it is naive of me to feel shocked after reading that, but I do - I've never encountered that level of racism (or anywhere close) in the 25 years I've lived in Massachusetts. It's disturbing to become aware that racism continues to permeate a place that espouses liberalism and tolerance, but it is even more disturbing that I was not aware of it to begin with. Thank you for sharing that story and for giving me the opportunity to become more conscious of my surroundings.

-- ElizabethSullivan - 26 Apr 2012