In All Souls, the author, Michael Patrick Macdonald talks about his struggles and the poverty that he experienced living in South Boston in the 70s and 80s. In his neighborhood, there was always poverty, crime, and drugs. At the time, everyone was focusing on helping neighborhoods such as Roxbury and Dorchester because that is where most black families lived and people knew that they were impoverished. What people didn’t realize was that Southie was just as Impoverished as Roxbury and Dorchester. They assumed that because the people who lived in Southie were white that they automatically had money. Someone one day decided to make the point that “Our kids have just as little.” while white people were rioting against the “forced busing” of black
