Posted on 10/29/2014 3:46:39 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Google Maps a few weeks ago identified much of North Philadelphia as "Temple Town."
Temple University's encroachments upon North Philadelphia should no longer be shocking for it is real. While Temple University has officially denied any connection to this renaming, it appears clear that Temple University and developers are carving out a white enclave that in effect is no longer North Philadelphia. Most black folks will be unwelcomed.
What Temple wants is a white enclave of racial and class privilege. This makes Temple University and its developer friend not just gentrifiers, but guilty of resegregating Philadelphia on the model of South African apartheid.
This is a "New Jim Crow."
This form of Jim Crow is about urban space and land. It's about replacing black folks with upper-middle-class whites. It's about disrupting black communities and institutions. It's about disrespect. It's a return to the horrible past of blatant white supremacy.
In this respect, Temple is as bad as any white Southern oppressor from back in the day. The name of the game is a few crumbs off the table for some, but old-style white supremacy for the majority.
Temple's plans for North Philly are the same as its plans on how it will operate the university. Temple's faculty is overwhelming white: Blacks (4.6 percent) and Hispanics (2.7 percent). Minorities are a diminishing part of the faculty. Its top administrators are almost entirely white.
Over the last 15 years, there's been a dramatic decline in black students, especially from Philadelphia. Temple acts like it doesn't even want black kids from Philadelphia, and especially North Philadelphia. This applies to even the most gifted.
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they need to do the same thing around U Penn
“If you like your slum, you can keep your slum.”
Let them have a “food desert” instead.
Temple is a decent university in an indecent slum - I go there often. Their student body is 60% white (a majority but not overwhelming). Their faculty is approximately 80% white. Most of the professionals I worked with at Temple are non-white (Korean, Chinese, and Indian mathematicians). It’s not whites at Temple who are keeping local blacks out of Temple, it’s local cultural pressures that are keeping local blacks from improving their lives.
If they don’t like gentrification, they should feel free to buy the buildings and keep them as low-income housing.
Otherwise, it is simply not their property.
Maybe they can form a new Republican and Democratic Party while they’re at it.
I attended Temple back in the 80s and this is old news. Temple always had plans to expand the campus. In fact, they had one plan where they would have extended the campus as far north as the Medical School, nearly two miles along North Broad Street. But the natives fought it with the same nonsense spewed in this article. Yep, 4 years at Temple. If it were not for the friendly Philly cops who looked after us whenever we left the campus, I am sure more of us would have been assaulted. I still tip my hat to officers who gave us ride back to campus after some hardy partying near the medical campus. I’ll never forget when they pulled up next to us-as it was 2 AM and a group of us were walking south on Broad Street back to the main campus-”What are you guys doing out here? Don’t you know what kind of neighborhood you are in?”
What's got the locals spooked is what's happened over by Drexel and Penn. That neighborhood has priced out some of the locals. Of course, that neighborhood was never as bad as Cecil B. Moore. I don't think these neighbors have a leg to stand on. The comments at philly.com were brutal. If the neighbors cared so much about their neighborhood, how about they get rid of the crack before they try to oust any imaginary white people who might potentially move in?
Which makes this an economic issue, not a racial issue - except that black Americans have suffered more under the current administration than under any other president. Therefore, if it a racial issue, it lies at the feet of the President.
as far as Temple, I can only say that my brother went there with his dtr to see about attending and he was so upset about the surroundings he refuses to let her go to college there..
I just want the soldiers going to obololand to be 12.6% black..
The writer is president of Black Men at Penn.
Ther is a competition for top minority students at top rated universities. temple is not exactly top rated. It’s the low cost alternative to Apennines top minority students get scholarships to Penn, why would they go to Temple?
Students at Temple have not gentrified the neighborhood. Nort Philadelphia is not being remodeled for White families. Students don’t qualify as gentrified residents. What has changed is that student loans have enabled students to rent apartments close to the school rather than live at home with MoM and Dad. Temple used to be a commuter school.
Looks like to only racist are the race batters writting this article.
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