For Richard Claytor, watching migrants being surrounded by law enforcement and dragged from their cars, all over social media and TV in recent months, seems too familiar.
Black people in Boston, he says, have been treated this way for long swaths of history.
“I lived through a couple of decades where there was sort of the stop-and-frisk concept,” said Claytor, program director of the Boston-based Family Nurturing Center. “It’s just something that has come back again in a cycle with a different group of people as the focus.”…