The article is very mild actually. Anonymous whites discussing the problem of inner city crime, etc. Really radical stuff. /s
Just shows you how close we are to becoming a bannana republic with all these little Napoleons in power.
Bingo !
http://www.phillymag.com/articles/white-philly/
That’s the link for those who haven’t read the article. I just read it and completely agree. The article is worse than mild, it’s weak. The writer appears so timid in his approach that he sounds as though he pleading for a kinder gentler approach to race relations, for Blacks to recognize that the new Progressive Whites are not the same old more conservative Whites of previous generations.
It’s not what I would have said at all. I went to Temple in late sixties. I was part of a committee to attract more Black students to graduate school at Temple. We were not the racists that this writer likes to think that we were. At the time, the Black Panthers were just getting started, I remember them walking down the sidewalk of North Broad, five abreast with their arms linked, laughing and clearing the sidewalk in front of them. We just laughed and moved aside to let them pass as if it was a game. We treated the kids at the clinics, my friends did volunteer work at the drug rehab, gave legal advice, and volunteered at the schools. We weren’t the enemy, even after a med school student was attacked and castrated one night, while jogging on the sidewalk near the school.
What I see today, when I visit Philadelphia is an open hostility toward White people, sullen clerks who refuse to make eye contact or speak to a White person while working the cash register, airport workers who are openly hostile and try to make your visit to Philadelphia as miserable as possible, and a real fear of mayhem. Heck, my nephew was attacked and beat up at a gas station because he took too long at the gas pump.