Mayor changes tune on black violence discussion.Rebukes author for citing crime problems

World Net Daily ^ | 4/20/2013 | John T. Bennett

[IbJensen]

If blacks can criticize whites, then whites should be able to say the inner city “needs to get its act together.”

That was the bottom line of “Being White in Philly,” a controversial article written by Robert Huber and published in Philadelphia Magazine.

(Mayor Nutter)

What followed was predictable. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said the article was a “sin” and an “incitement to extreme reaction.” The mayor called upon the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission to “rebuke” the magazine and Huber.

But not long ago, Nutter was calling for a “national conversation” about racial issues: “Black on black crime is not an isolated problem. It affects every member of every community. This is a national problem with national implications, and there needs to be a national conversation.”

Huber told WND that he assumed that when the mayor said “conversation” he meant the ordinary meaning.

“We need to learn to talk to each other honestly, without fear,” Huber said. “That would be a big step toward solving some problems.

Believing that the mayor was welcoming an actual conversation, Huber contributed his article, “Being White in Philly.”

Huber and some of the people he interviewed were critical of the crime and social disorganization in the city. Several spoke honestly about the racial aspect of crime and other social problems (See a condensed summary of their statements). On the basis of personal experience, some interviewees spoke about break-ins, assaults, robbery and other antisocial acts.

But what are the actual circumstances of crime in Philadelphia?

Over the last two decades, the city has lost 32 percent of its white population, or 263,254 people. During that time, crime was a major concern.

[Jack Hammer]

Philadelpia is a sickening sh*t hole, almost exclusively due to Black crime - anyone who says differently is either deluded or a liar.

[SunkenCiv]

This happened weeks ago.

Anything but Gosnell trial coverage, anything at all.

[mrsmel]

What Nutter, and most black policians mean by "conversation" on race, is that blacks get to tell whites how everything wrong in the black community is the fault of whites, and then whites may get a few minutes to agree with what's said. When black policians talk about how we need to talk about black dysfunction affects all of us, what they mean is that whites are supposed to take responsibility for-and pick up the check-for the black dysfunction, not talk about how black dysfunction and violence is affecting the white community too.

What whites have to do is stop being too cowardly to just say that we have a point of view also, and it's a white point of view, just as they have a black point of view, and it's just as valid as the black POV. We have to stop being too cowardly to say that black violence is affecting whites, in that whites and other non-blacks have been targetted for black crimes, such as businesses looted and innocent victims assaulted by mobs purely based on being other than black. Whites have a stake in this besides just footing the bills and taking unfair blame.