Posted on 08/09/2011 7:02:46 PM PDT by annie laurie
Mayor Michael Nutter took a hard line against youth mob violence yesterday — chastising the black community in particular— from the pulpit of his West Philadelphia church.
“This nonsense must stop,” he thundered at Mount Carmel Baptist Church. “If you wanna act like a butthead, your butt’s gonna get locked up. If you wanna act like an idiot, move; we don’t want you here anymore.”
Nutter’s remarks were met with riotous applause as he addressed absentee parenting, peer pressure, and a sense of entitlement and disregard for consequences that seems to permeate teens who participate in violent swarms. The remarks came on the heels of the latest mob attack on July 29 in Center City, when two men were assaulted by 20 to 40 teens.
“Parents, if you don’t know where your kids are, you’re gonna find yourself spending quality time with them in jail,” he said, calling absent fathers “walking ATMs” and “sperm donors.”
“Please talk to your children because things are going to change,” he warned. The city said on Friday that it would ramp up enforcement of the teen curfew with a beefed-up weekend police deployment, and Nutter is expected to announce more serious measures involving both community groups and the court system at noon today.
Some in the black community agreed with Nutter’s assessment, but say extra enforcement measures aren’t enough to deal with the complicated sociological problems that have fostered a culture of violence.
“A black man may not have an opportunity to take care of his children. There are no jobs,” said security officer Douglas Jordan, 49. “More police will solve nothing. You have to get to [the kids’] hearts. Throwing their mom in jail ... is just going to cause more havoc.”
Silent majority
While Nutter admitted that “99 percent” of Philadelphia teens are law-abiding kids, he said the other one percent are doing irreparable damage to their peers — and to their race. “Some of them have made chains on our wrists,” he said. “I am forced by the stupid, dumb, ignorant actions of a few to take actions tomorrow that will affect many.”
“If you wanna be aggressive, we’ll be aggressive and we’ve got the biggest, baddest gang in town,” he said.
— Additional reporting by Yotam Dror
Nutter talking to nuts trying to speak some logic into them... as if he had any!!!.
You can’t make this stuff up..
Your policies made them what they are, so you keep them. We don't want them.
or get a gun and stand firm.
I’m sick of excuses for the black community. What you see is what you get.
yep..black chickens coming home to roost
Rant on.
Philly (and most large cities) is already lost.
The only way to save this, or any other city is to restore the 2nd amendment as it was written. I don’t mean any of this CCW crap; I mean open and displayed weapons, as is our constitutional right.
When we are as armed as our enemy, we will be safe. When someone has thoughts about trying to remove me from my car at gunpoint, for whatever reason, and know that I might have a gun of my own, they might have second thoughts (especially if they can see that I’m armed). This will send these vermin back into their own neighborhoods to kill each other, to their hearts content.
Flam away.
Rant off.
In fact, Holder's people are a big reason 2nd amendment rights are not widely supported. I'll stop there so I don't get in trouble. My redneck is showing.
Watch what they do, not what they say.
Talk is cheap.
Time to bring back the chain gang.
And don’t forget these alleged “poor” persons being able to afford often intricate TATTOOS. Can you use food stamps to pay for tattoos?/s;)
Flash mobs go to Church?
That is the one thing he missed: he should have told the absent parents to get their thugs into Sunday School.
Down by the Convention Center and Chinatown are still accessible to white folks like me during the day. The whole city wasn’t totally Ridge and Sedgley material yet. The way things are going now, it could be fast.
I do not understand what you mean. Why are you saying second amendment rights are not widely supported? Could you elaborate in a way that doesn't get us both thrown off FR?
When you can only go out in the city during the day the city is lost.
Big city feral populations (read whatever you want into that) hunt in packs too large for even the most prepared among us. A standoff would produce dismal results and would most likely resemble a 'Black Hawk Down' scenario.
Mogadishu is the best way to describe any major western country city today and the best advice for white city dwellers is Get Out Now While You Can! It's no big deal to me if they stay. Not only will they decrease the surplus population, but will inadvertently cleanse the gene pool at the same time as most are liberal A-holes anyway.
The state probably provides them with their smart phones, there is such a program in my state.
If that's the case, then the program needs to be terminated.
Perhaps when conventions stop coming to town and this costs the city even more $$ then officials and police will try to crack down even harder on the scumbags.
There were jobs, they wouldn't do them. Remember, that's why we have all those illegal immigrants. You know, the ones who cost the taxpayers billions every year.
While Nutter admitted that “99 percent” of Philadelphia teens are law-abiding kids, he said the other one percent are doing irreparable damage to their peers — and to their race. “Some of them have made chains on our wrists,” he said. “I am forced by the stupid, dumb, ignorant actions of a few to take actions tomorrow that will affect many.”
Bull sh!+. Take actions that affect those who cause the problems. Roundup these little punks, load them on some buses, and take them to work in the fields. Make them work there until they've repaid, by ten times over, the people they have damaged. No good comes from sending them to jail for a few days. Make them work.
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