“Philly teens” and “French youths” are both euphemisms for the race and religious faith that shall not be named.
And all except the clueless know that Temple is located in Northeast Philadelphia, in the middle of a heavily black neighborhood.
Not Northeast Philadelphia. North Philadelphia. The neighborhood was originally central and eastern European: German, Polish, Ukrainian and Lithuanian. Then in the Fifties, it all began to change. Today the neighborhood’s inhabitants refer to it as “the jungle.”