Posted on 10/26/2016 7:17:57 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Temple University, Philadelphia
“Flash Mob Of Over 100 Teenagers Assault Temple Students, Punch Police Horse
“North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – A massive group of [black] teenagers attack and rob [white] Temple University Students. One of the teenagers even punched a police horse in the face.
“Robberies and assaults happened all around the Temple University campus Friday night after several hundred [black] teenagers met up for a flash mob style get together. Local authorities report…..” BlueLivesMatter.Blue
I think this is all part of Obama’s plan to destroy America. Incite blacks to do this kind of thing, whites begin to hate blacks, real war between black and white starts.
The embrace of BlackLivesMatter by Obama, Hillary, and all Democrats is their dog whistle to blacks saying "It's open season on cops and open season on whitey. Now sic'em!"
It's so ironic to watch Hillary claim that Trump and his supporters are inspiring racial hatred and violence when they blatantly egg on a movement that spins off into racial violence at every instance.
Do you think that Obama’s and Hillary’s motives are different? Obama’s to utterly destroy, and observe and laugh about it from some other country. Hillary’s to create such misery that we beg for government to take complete control.
The white liberals want feral blacks and other "minorities" to attack working and middle class whites (while leaving liberal elites in their gated communities safe and secure) because it creates an excuse for the elites to consolidate their power through gun control, government surveillance, and an expanding welfare state. In contrast, black radicals like Obama probably encourage the rioters out of pure, raw racial hatred.
Regardless of motives, the results are the same for us.
Your last line is sadly very true.
“reek havoc”
wreak havoc
These schools often are used to prop up dying areas, creating makework for preferred minorities to pretend to work and set-aside seats for preferred minorities to pretend to learn. We have some in NJ (Newark and Jersey City, for example) but nobody wants to live there. You can’t go out when the sun goes down and weekends must suck...Mostly foreign students living there.
Too true; too many whites choose not to breed.
As Cardinal Ratzinger commented (prior to being elected Pope Benedict XVI): How do we mourn the passing of a culture with such a hand in its own destruction?
If shooting them is too harsh, they should be chained and made to work for their room and board...
Behind Temple attacks, rage often comes with exclusion
Behind Temple attacks, rage often comes with exclusion
Updated: OCTOBER 26, 2016 — 9:33 AM EDT by Solomon Jones @SolomonJones1
I was at once heartbroken and horrified as I watched video of our children - black children - brutally punching, kicking and, in at least one case, robbing students near the campus of Temple University on Friday night.
It was an orgy of violence that was arranged through social media, a forum where the impulsiveness of youth and the efficiency of technology too often result in chaos.
When the attack was over, a police horse had been punched, a police officer had been knocked to the ground, a Temple student was hospitalized, and several others were hurt.
At press time, four teens had been arrested in connection with the incidents. An estimated 100 or more were involved.
But even when the physical scars are healed and justice is meted out, the distance that separates the impoverished black teens of North Philly from the white college students of Temple will remain. They live in the same community, but their realities are worlds apart.
I know because I spent my teen years at 25th and Oxford, just a mile from the 1400 block of Oxford St., where one of the assaults occurred. I know because those same streets nearly swallowed me before I earned my journalism degree from Temple.
But woven between the swirl of drugs, crime and poverty that sometimes marked those streets, there was also a proud and hardworking group of people who were brutally honest, unceasingly real and generous enough to share what little they had.
It was that North Philly that shaped me. It is that North Philly where the attacks took place, and it is that North Philly that is dying under the weight of gentrification.
For more than a decade, on whip-thin streets with names like Sydenham and Colorado, longtime community residents and their children watched white men from other places come in to build new rental housing. That same community sought jobs on those worksites, but contractors who required union labor and unions that were largely white and male excluded community workers. Then community members were forced to watch as Temple students were welcomed into that same new housing by landlords who used various methods to exclude community residents from renting them.
As a result, the neighborhood rapidly changed, and younger, whiter residents moved in.
The Pew Charitable Trusts examined the changes in the community surrounding Temple University in a study called "Philadelphia's Changing neighborhoods: Gentrification and Other Shifts Since 2000."
In census tract 147, which encompasses 1400 W. Oxford St., the area where one of the attacks took place, Pew found that the area was 96 percent black in 2000. That was virtually cut in half by 2010.
Thanks to a proliferation of newly constructed student housing, property values also went up. In fact, according to Pew, the area west of Temple saw the most extreme change in property values of all university areas in the city, with the median sale price of a house going from $11,250 in 2000-01 to $140,000 in 2013-14.
"There were 14 census tracts in the city that had gone from majority African American to no longer majority African American," Larry Eichel of Pew told me in an interview. "Eight of those were adjacent to universities. We had some data and some observations.
"From the point of view of the longtime residents that were still there, there were some pluses and minuses: improved amenities, sometimes the university police patrols the area so community residents feel like they have extra security, retail options and grocery stores and stuff like that. But they also feel that there's noise; the students don't respect them, don't understand them, don't respect the neighborhood. Some longtime residents feel they're not as comfortable in the neighborhood as they were."
And therein lies the problem.
In a city where poverty is concentrated outside the universities, we can't truly expect the poor to watch jobs and wealth and excess pass them by without any reaction at all.
To be sure, violence is the wrong response. And the kids who engaged in it will surely be prosecuted, as they should be.
But I believe those teens are expressing something that has long simmered beneath the surface. They are expressing the rage that comes with exclusion. They are expressing the hurt that comes with invisibility. They are engaged in the inevitable push and pull of change.
Temple University, my alma mater, has reached out to the community with scholarships for local youth, according to spokesman Ray Betzner. They've put reading programs in place, tutored high schoolers and even talked to their own students about respecting longtime community residents. But Temple would be wise to reach out into the community with an eye toward creating stronger relationships and greater opportunities for the young people who've been pushed aside by a generation of exclusionary development.
The community would be wise to reach back.
I can't remember a time my {white} buddies and I got together and beat up innocent people. The only time I saw this happen was by thug groups, who thought their sense of oppression (real or imagined) justified their criminal outrage.
Today I carry an extra magazine or two just if I'm called upon to participate in such group therapy (as the intended victim). If ammo runs out, I intend to transition to shinken.
Thanks - it’s a mistake I almost always make!
I guess i needed a /s ?
You betcha. Glad I could help.
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