So the Red Sox finally win a World Series after 86 year! What does that mean to me? It's a huge blow to that inferiority complex that has pervaded each of our lives. At the risk of inciting controversy, I hostestly believe that we desrved such a wait. Over the years, Bostonians have had much to atone for. Like the Israelites, they needed to suffer and fully understand what they did wrong before they reached the promised land.

African Americans have known Boston as the "Northernmost Southern City". It had one of the most resilient populations to integration in the north. The Red Sox and the Celtics were the last teams in their respective leagues to integrate racially. The Boston Archdiocese was the epicenter of the child molestation scandals and more importantly, the ensuing coverups.

During my 16 years in the Boston area, I took much issue with its puritanical and ethnocentric ways. In the past six years away from the city, I saw a vast transformation for the better. The city became much more embracing of its diversity - an attribute that has always existed within the city limits but never before acknowledged by the nepotistic self proclaimed cognoscenti of Boston. They began acknowledging their faults and mistakes, to say the least.

What the Red Sox have been through was not an extended and cruel exercise in existentialism. It was a microcosm of what is wrong in Boston. The organization has been plagued with many of the same problems the city has endured. I have seen too many boneheaded decisions made by the management of the Red Sox to resort to the silly, almost cliche, "woe is me, why can't we win one" bullshit. New owners came in. New management came in. They collectively addressed decades of poor decisions, fought a juggernaught of Bstonian conventional wisdom, and accomplished what many before them could not.

Alrighty, let's celebrate and move on.....