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North Philadelphia meeting addresses gentrification (White people destroying neighborhoods)
Philadelphia Daily News ^ | 03/03/2014 | VALERIE RUSS

Posted on 03/03/2014 4:21:10 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

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To: Billthedrill
"They clothe their females!"

Your comment forced a recall of a Star Trek New Generation episode with the Ferengi.

21 posted on 03/03/2014 4:40:10 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
gentrification (White people destroying neighborhoods)

IDIOTS!

Who built the neighborhoods.

22 posted on 03/03/2014 4:43:11 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: PapaBear3625

I think the real complaint is, “who in da hell want to live in a clean slum?”


23 posted on 03/03/2014 4:43:16 PM PST by Ed Condon (Give 'em a heading, an altitude, and a reason.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The picture in the article is at 20th and Fitzwater, which is in South Philly, not north; it’s about a mile from where my Italian great-grandparents had their pharmacy prior to the Depression, at 10th and Christian. Before the neighborhood was Italian, it was Swedish, and before that it was Irish, and before that it was English. ‘Hoods change.


24 posted on 03/03/2014 4:44:15 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Yeah well, they do the same thing here in DT Los Angeles. Unfortunately for the white libtards, the city is still called East Los Angeles LOL


25 posted on 03/03/2014 4:47:10 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Kid Shelleen

Keep white people out! They cause our property values to go up!


26 posted on 03/03/2014 4:49:59 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: FreeAtlanta
Here come! Eeeeeeeaaaaaah!


27 posted on 03/03/2014 4:51:17 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: Billthedrill

North Philly was German, Polish, Lithuanian and generally central and eastern European from 1900 to the postwar years. Then the blacks came up from the South. By the time I left the Philadelphia area in 1971, North Philly was known as “The Jungle”, and by its own inhabitants.


28 posted on 03/03/2014 4:57:52 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

talk to the supreme court


29 posted on 03/03/2014 5:00:30 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: chajin
The picture in the article is at 20th and Fitzwater, which is in South Philly, not north...

You are correct; and that area has been gentrifying for the past 30 years. It's just Center City spreading a little farther south as high-rise office buildings and stores push residents out of Center City and farther out in the ring around the main area, "Vine to South and River to River." Fitz is only two blocks south of South Street. It's not like a bunch of white people suddenly arrived in the depths of North Philly and bought up a few blocks.

That said, 50 years ago people said "Vine to Pine and River to River", so the outward push from Center City has gobbled up some blocks. Since the 60s, people have developed different patterns: although people have smaller families and fewer people living in each household, they now have one or more cars per adult, as opposed to one car for the whole family in the old days. Many acres of city real estate are now devoted to parking spaces, either commercial or private.

30 posted on 03/03/2014 5:08:32 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Worse than that, the violent crime rate is going down in those neighborhoods!

Save the Trayvons!

31 posted on 03/03/2014 5:12:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
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To: Publius

I mindlessly got on the wrong SEPTA train leaving 30th Street... and so had to detrain at North Philly... not a place one wants to be at night.


32 posted on 03/03/2014 5:20:02 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: chajin

We lived in Germantown until 1955, when things began to change.


33 posted on 03/03/2014 5:20:53 PM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: Rodamala

I wouldn’t want to be there during the day either.


34 posted on 03/03/2014 5:23:23 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

How dare white people come in and renovate dilapidated properties. No wonder the blacks are incensed.

Oh, wait, that can’t be right. It’s white people who want to keep blacks out of white neighborhoods. It’s impossible that blacks would want to keep whites out of black neighborhoods because blacks aren’t capable of being racists. I know because that’s what the Just-Us Brothers said.


35 posted on 03/03/2014 5:23:43 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Palio di Siena

There was a large Italian population in Germantown until the postwar years. The composer Vincent Persichetti came from that area. My late mother dated Vince’s cousin.


36 posted on 03/03/2014 5:25:40 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: MeshugeMikey; A_Former_Democrat

I thought you guys made this up. Then I read the article. OMFG


37 posted on 03/03/2014 5:28:08 PM PST by Hardastarboard (The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

How dare they cleanup what THEY have destroyed so very well over all these years. Are they capable of doing this themselves? yes they are! but this would take responsibility, morals, family values, hard work and a realization that the politicains and thier very own have been screwing them and holding them down for years. It is much easier to fight over crumbs thier black plantation owners throw thier way for thier vote.


38 posted on 03/03/2014 5:29:03 PM PST by ronnie raygun (zippy the a##clown sez..............................)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Oh, man, you’ve NAILED IT there!

^5!


39 posted on 03/03/2014 5:33:49 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Kid Shelleen
BRING BACK OUR SLUMS!
40 posted on 03/03/2014 5:36:09 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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