7/12/2023 0 Comments The black masses videos![]() ![]() ![]() The virulence of that shocking remark suggests the tone and the import of the conflict in South Boston at the time. Wallace “may well be the one we end up with” because he was willing to “speak up loud and clear and offend those who have made themselves our enemies.” “Anybody who isn’t called a racist in this campaign,” said the quiet, diminutive Mr. State Senator William Bulger, a hero in South Boston. But one of them-William Bulger, the gangster’s brother (portrayed in the film by Benedict Cumberbatch)-was a state senator at the time, representing South Boston, and he himself made national news, as in this report from the Times, from 1975, forecasting the following year’s Democratic Presidential primary in Massachusetts: Most white children being bused refused to go.įrom watching “Black Mass,” you’d never know that these events coincided in any way with those seen in the movie or that any of the movie’s characters had anything to do with them. Many residents of South Boston responded with fury, threatening violence against the black students who arrived by bus. That’s the time when South Boston, the largely Irish neighborhood where Bulger grew up, lived, and operated, was national news, mostly in conjunction with one word, “busing.” In 1974, a federal judge ordered that Boston’s public schools be desegregated by sending white students from schools in South Boston to schools in the predominantly black neighborhood of Roxbury, and vice versa. Scott Cooper’s film “Black Mass” is told in flashback, framed by recent confessions by James (Whitey) Bulger’s partners in crime, and the first of these flashbacks is dated, in an on-screen title, to 1975. PHOTOGRAPH BY CLAIRE FOLGER / WARNER BROS. Joel Edgerton, left, and Johnny Depp, right, star in the Whitey Bulger bio-pic “Black Mass,” which offers little insight into how its antihero lives, what he thinks, and what (if anything) he feels.
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