Posted on 10/27/2016 4:43:03 AM PDT by Prov1322
Armstrong: Stop trying to make Temple attacks about race
Updated: OCTOBER 26, 2016 — 10:49 PM EDT
Temple officials have promised to beef up security after a recent attack involving teens.
by Jenice Armstrong, Daily News Columnist @JeniceArmstrong
The TEMPLE attacks were about troublemaking teens - not race.
The youngsters who jumped those college students as they walked to campus Friday night are delinquents who need to be put in check before it's too late.
They were nothing but miscreants who took out their aggression and misdirected rage on random passersby. Why? Because they felt like wilding out that night. They were out to create chaos, so they did.
So, don't talk to me about gentrification in North Philly.
Don't talk to me about poverty.
Don't talk to me about race relations.
Those are whole other conversations and not what these attacks were about.
No one was safe from these teens that night. Not the six Temple students who were injured. Not the Temple police officer knocked from her bicycle by a 15-year-old. Not even a police horse. Anyone could have gotten caught up in that madness.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
"The youngsters..." UNBELIEVABLE!
Pound on whitey is not about race? LMAO.
Philly (up is down, down is up) PING
Not about race? Riiiiiiiiiight .....
Whatever Jenice. That’s a hate crime, plain and simple. We’re any black students at Temple attacked?
There is no cure for stupid.
Did any white youngsters participate in the attack?
I’m guessing comments on the article are disabled; I don’t even believe this is idiocy, more like intentional propaganda.
#BlackLiesMatter
I notice that, while insisting the attacks by the “youngsters” were not about race, the authoress does not state how many blacks were beaten up by the thugs. Perhaps her point is that since one of the thugs slugged a horse it proves the “youngsters” were not racists?
NO, that is a claim far too far to make! If it were true, then that would equate to EVERYONE going mad who was anywhere close to the incident(s)! While there has been Juvenile Delinquency (or equivalent) throughout human history, our progressive left has made a habit of justifying or forgiving it in today's minority (largely black) youth.
So who would not be part of the 'anyone' here? How about youths from two parent families? Then again, such families are unlikely to reside in those neighborhoods. How about single parents raising their child(ren) with strong morals? How about youths who have not bought into the gangster culture that has such dominance in those neighborhoods?
Now, one should ask this writer and the society as a whole, which polity/political party, espouses policies that celebrate the destructive conditions found in Philadelphia and its sister cities? What polity/political party has politically controlled those cities for generations yet cannot seem to find ways to improve these conditions? What polity/political party has always found ways to add taxes that drive out the population that can move but spends the revenue on themselves, their supporters but cannot find solutions to this without more taxes?
Wow, can’t believe they slipped up and left comments on; she is getting ripped!
Thanks to Barack Obama and Black Lives Matters EVERYTHING is about race.
And yet, if one of those “teens” had been shot by a CCW, “Black Lives Matter” would have made it ALL ABOUT race, and would have shut down the city in response.
I agree that not everything is about race. I have no idea about this situation but when a black person is shot by police can we stop making it about race?
"In 1964 the war on poverty was started. Now 20 Trillion later where are we??? You can lead a horse to water but ya can't make the dummy drink."
"But you can't lead a horse into North Philly because it will get punched in the face."
"There was no horse. It was Sarah Jessica Parker. Honest mistake."
I went to the article and checked out the comments there, which were 95% negative towards the author. I’m surprised Philly.com still allows a comments section.
Is the Knockout Game now a team sport? Is this the first civic approved franchise?
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