Daniela Caride

STONEHAM — Foley Ibidapo and Xavier Garcia have many stories to tell.
One of Ibidapo’s teachers used to call him “troublemaker” because he was black. Garcia’s football coach called him “retarded rhesus monkey” when the Puerto Rican youngster missed the ball.

Ibidapo’s teammates used the n-word to insult blacks on the street. Garcia’s classmates joked that he was a Mexican who crossed the border on a raft.

At Stoneham High School, they were “the B&B Brothers” — short for “black and brown.”
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