Posted on 07/31/2013 2:00:14 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
“The violence in this country, especially as it effects African-American men and boys, is not a problem,” Mayor Michael Nutter said last night at a screening of the new film, Fruitvale Station. “It is an epidemic, it is a disease…. We need to do something about it.”
Standing before a packed theater of invited guests from Philadelphia youth groups, including the Mayor’s Violence Prevention Workshop, the Youth Violence Reduction Partnership and other city and community initiatives, the Mayor introduced the film – a wrenching dramatizion of the events leading up to the New Year’s Day, 2009, shooting death of Oscar Grant, a young, black Oakland, Calif., resident. Returning home from New Year’s Eve celebrations in San Francisco , Grant, 22, unarmed, was killed by a transit police officer on a station platform. Michael B. Jordan stars as Grant in the Sundance Film Festival prize winner.
Standing in front of the Ritz Five screen, accompanied by Gerard McMurray and Ephraim Walker, a producer and consultant, respectively, for the film, Mayor Nutter offered brief but emotional comments to the audience of teens and city officials. “We know a little bit about New Year’s Day 2009, Oscar Grant and his death," Nutter said.
"We know that last year a young man, 17-years-old, Trayvon Martin, and the aftermath of that particular case, caught national and international attention. Very different situations and circumstances, but they actually share one huge connector: young... black...men... dead.
"Unfortunately that happens on the streets of our city and many other cities across the United States of America," Nutter continued, promising "the very young men who are here with us tonight… [that] our work and our jobs as adults is to make sure that that never, ever happens to you, or your friends, or other young boys all across America. That is my focus, that is my goal, that’s my commitment."
Nutter encouraged the crowd to consider "what's going on in our society," and to do something about it. "That's what tonight is about," he said.
Fruitvale Station is currently playing in theaters around the area.
That first line makes absolutely no sense. If it’s not a problem then why do anything about it?
Hollywood seems to determined to churn out a semi-annual progression of movies designed to reinforce hatred against whites.
Django, 42, and now this.
Most of “the violence in this country, especially as it effects African-American men and boys,...” Is committed BY African-American men and boys.
“We need to do something about it. Take away Whitey’s guns!”
LOL
When these hoodie-wearing scum get jobs and get off the public dole, THEN we can talk about "respect".
change your culture Mr. Nutter...enforce a curfew for black yutes...stop black yutes on the street randomly and search for guns...
but no , we couldn't do that....just like we couldn't close the bathhouses at the height of the AIDS epidemic...
As I understand UK and Aussie slang, a “nutter” is someone who is nuts in the sense of crazy notions about something.
Why not make a film about black on white crime? Its far more common, more brutal and violent, and epecially more epidemic. Why not make a film about young back thugs that are recuited to sell drugs before they are 12, are pimps before 18, treat women like whores and beat on them incessantly, and committ far more crimes than the other races combined? I think that would be far more interesting but maybe not. It occurs so often no ote pays attention to it anymore. They just expect it.
Philadelphia, March 15, 2013 – Mayor Michael A. Nutter sent a letter to Rue Landau, Executive Director, Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, in response to the Philadelphia Magazine cover story “Being White in Philly.” In the letter, Mayor Nutter decried the article for its “disgusting” tone, its collection of disparaging beliefs and negative stereotypes, and its categorical generalizations of both the purported perspective of white Philadelphians and the perceived character of African-American Philadelphians. “Being White in Philly”, written by Robert Huber, is a piece featuring comments from anonymous, Caucasian sources describing their personal experience and feelings about the current state of race relations in the city of Philadelphia.
You are a racist for posting true statistics. End of debate, lets move along.
That’s hilarious, but there’s some truth to it, esp. the mad woman part.
Violent Black males in Philly, you don’t say.
At least his last name gives you a warning up front: Nutter!
Facts are stubborn things.
The biggest killer of young black men, is young black men.
I am sure he blames whitey, society, history, guns.... anything but the perpetrators. As long as that is the case, nothing will change.
The Oscar Grant incident is totally different than the Martin-Zimmerman incident. No one but a dufus would try to make believe there is any connection between the two.
We need to do something about it.
You can start by leaving the rest of the nation's rights the [fill in the blank] alone.
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