Really, Annette? Then who were those people we heard cheering and applauding enthusiastically during his "rant"?
Oh, I know. Let's go to the tape....
Posted on 08/11/2011 4:34:36 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Once again, Michael Nutter is not messin' around.
You know he's not playing when he pulls out the black vernacular.
And there was a whole lot of it during his 30-minute rant - I mean, sermon - from behind the pulpit to a packed congregation Sunday at Mount Carmel Baptist Church in West Philadelphia.
Disgusted by the mobs of African American youths who have been terrorizing folks in City Center lately, he gave the black community a good old-fashioned whipping.
I could almost hear my grandmother say, "Get me a switch!"
He chastised black fathers for being nothing more than "sperm donors." He called out "doggone" hoodie-wearing teens who'd never get jobs with their underwear or the "crack of your butt" showing. And he came down on neglectful parents who "need to get a hold of your kids before we have to."
It was like he channeled his best Bill Cosby, which he pulls out when he feels he needs to.
And the mayor wasn't finished. At a City Hall news conference Monday, he told a small group of reporters, "I don't care what your economic status is in life, you do not have a right to beat someone's ass on the street."
We can deal with the public tongue-lashing, even if his intended targets were nowhere to be found among the law-abiding churchgoers in their Sunday best. But what really bothered me was when Nutter fired the age-old salvo that has historically evoked head-hanging shame among black folks:
"You've damaged yourself," the mayor accused. "You've damaged your peers, and, quite honestly, you've damaged your own race."
There, he said it.
In a way that his white constituents would hear him loud and clear. At that point, he wasn't talking to black people anymore.
Credit to your race
Nutter expressed in no uncertain terms the sentiment that so often shackles black people - that the unlawful actions of a few smear everyone else. Something whites never have to fear.
Just as they never have to live up to the expectation of being a credit to their race. Whatever that means.
Don't get me wrong. Nutter deserves credit for taking a strong stand against a troubling brand of violence that first erupted last summer, when groups of black youths randomly attacked and robbed pedestrians downtown.
You'd better believe I felt comforted seeing all of those police officers on foot patrol in Center City last weekend, where I was attending a convention. They made me feel safe.
Too bad folks in less upscale neighborhoods can't say the same.
See, we all know that once violence crosses over into the usually peaceful oasis of Center City, the mayor has to respond with a full-scale assault. After all, we're talking violence threatening tourism, business, the arts, the very heart of the city's livelihood.
But when the shooting of two black rowhouse residents in Port Richmond over the weekend - one was seven months pregnant - barely elicits attention, you have to wonder.
On Monday, Nutter announced a holistic approach to mob violence - increasing police presence, implementing earlier curfews in Center City and University City, expanding weekend hours at rec centers, and being tough on perpetrators who District Attorney Seth Williams said would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Nutter got the message out via urban radio.
I'm guessing that might be more effective than admonishing a bunch of thugs for damaging their race. As if they care.
He also urged parents to get involved in the lives of their children, saying, "This is not a police problem. This is a challenge to all of us in the community."
Now that sounds less like the blame-game politician playing to the cameras and more like the Michael Nutter who grew up at 55th and Larchwood.
You know, the one who's always been a credit to his community.
They played a clip of him last night.
Good for him.
This is what Obama should be doing.
PA Ping
Wah. Get off your butt, Annette, and propose something POSITIVE. At least your mayor is trying to salvage what’s left of Philadelphia.
The writer is upset about his airing the dirty laundry in front of white people. At least he didn’t bomb the perps like Mayor W. Wilson Goode did to MOVE.
We're not dealing with "a few" here. That's a major reason this issue "shackles" even those who have done nothing wrong.
Does that mean you people are gonna stop throwing up slavery in our faces, even though you were never a slave, I was never a slave owner, and neither of us ever met anyone who was ever either of those things?
And we both know that if gangs of white youths roamed through white Philadelphia suburbs, attacking the random black postman or restaurant worker or Latino gardener, we. would. never. never. never. ever. hear the end of it. If the races of the Duke Lacross players and their accuser had been reversed, the cops would have ignored her after she started giving contradictory and implausible stories.
Really, Annette? Then who were those people we heard cheering and applauding enthusiastically during his "rant"?
Oh, I know. Let's go to the tape....
She complains that white people don’t have to worry about being “a credit to their race” or about being blamed as a group for the criminal behavior of a few. I think that anybody who identifies with a group has to take what goes with it, and when one of their members acts up, it does reflect on everybody else with the same group identity. Timothy McVeigh, Anders Brevik, and Ted Kaczynski were white extremists who are supposed to make non-leftist whites feel ashamed (even though Ted K is largely a leftist himself). Faithful Catholics have to bear the scorn of others, and search their own hearts, when priests victimize children. Honest politicians have to feel shame when other politicians are dishonest, etc.
Annette, one of the reasons why blacks is treated corporately, is because the group will often act corporately to protect one another from the consequence of their wrong doing.
If I, as a white person, does a severe wrong and another white person is aware of it, there is a very good chance I will be turned in. A white person does not protect a white person because of their skin colour.
Unfortunately, a black person will often not report the wrong doing of another black person because of skin colour and the consequences of snitching on a brotha or sista.
When you act corporately, you’re going to be viewed corporately.
Hey Annette, baby......Blacks use the term “Black COMMUNITY”, therefore ALL are lumped in together as being “ONE”.....whites NEVER use the term White “COMMUNITY”.
It is the grandmothers that RULE in the black families, often having to RAISE their own grandchildren, and remember that as number of them do go to church, so Mayor Nutter figures he can BEST get the message THERE.
And then there is that voting as a block behavior.
Their refusal to view the world as made up of individuals has led to the most destructive policies, not the least of which is the soft bigotry of low expectations. It's insulting and demeaning.
In other words, whites must prove they're "a credit to their race" by acquiescing to a liberal world view.
Is John-Hall African-American?
Yes, she is. And she is probably the worst columnist in the history of the Philadelphia Inquirer - and that’s saying something.
Annette John-Hall is a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her work appears on Tuesdays and Fridays in the newspaper's metro section.
Funny, these kind of incidents didn't happen back in your grandmother's day. Wonder if her idea of discipline had anything to do with it?
It was like he channeled his best Bill Cosby, which he pulls out when he feels he needs to.
Maybe if you liberal morons spent more time listening to what Cosby is saying, instead of engaging in your typical knee-jerk attacks against him, you might start seeing the beginnings of actual solutions to these problems.
All John-Hall adds to the debate is a reliable parroting of every black liberal urban talking point out there. And we have plenty of people doing that already, so she is an utter waste of space at the Inquirer
We have two Americas and they do not want to live together.
One of them consistently and viciously attacks the other and the MSM studiously ignores the racial element.
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