Philly Mayor Wants Mag Punished over Race Relations Story

Townhall.com ^ | March 19, 2013 | Todd Starnes

[Enten]

But Eric Holder said we would be discussing race if we weren’t such cowards

[ishmac]

Yes, it was a fine article. In fact, it was bit tame. The author quotes some raw stuff, but for the most part it's aimed at your well-meaning suburbanite moderate. The author of the piece gives the last word to the white liberal mom who's sending her child to her neighborhood's majority-black school. The ultimate theme is that we need to "reach out" more.

The article longish, but well worth the read for those who want to see want the fuss is all about. It's entitled, Being White in Philly. I think some of the hysteria is caused by thoughts expressed in the comment section (which the mag has not shut down and which includes over 4000 comments at this time). One commenter whose mother sent him to a mostly black school narrated what total Hell life was there, and boy, the conversation got, ahem, "lively"!! It's worth reading now, because they will likely close the comments section at some point. It's there that you get "the rest of the story."

[oh8eleven]

nearly ALL the checks written by [race removed by PC POLICE] bounced.
Nearly 40 years ago I managed a retail store and 5pm every Friday and Saturday evening, I had to put out a "No Checks" sign for the same reason.
Forty years of "progress" - ain't they great?

[PGR88]

My “favorite” part of the article was the squishy leftist, yuppie white mother who insisted she would put her kid into the local school, as if she needed to prove how “open minded” she was.

[Born to Conserve]

Philadelphia was a great city, then the sixties happened.

[Palio di Siena]

If the article is renamed “being black in Philly” and the same type of
experiences related from the black perspective , it will be fine.

[RJS1950]

Then do it twit. Put your kids in an inner city school. and you be sure to drive them back and forth every day. Hope you enjoy the experience.

[hal ogen]

Isn’t the cretin mayor calling people “white folks” racist? Why doesn’t the anti-First-Amendment racist mayor pinhead STFU?

[Rummyfan]

He called the story “disgusting” and an “uninformed, ill-advised, ill-considered, uninspired, and thoroughly unimaginative.”

And so what if it was? The magazine should tell the mayor to pound sand!

[ishmac]

Here's the first quote from the comments section:

white kid in black gradeschool • 15 days ago −

As I white kid whose well-meaning parents enrolled him in a majority black school for the same noble reasons as "Jen", I just have to say that that decision is really negligent. I love how she makes it about herself. I love my parents dearly and have never told them about how lonely and terrifying it was to be one of the only white kids in my grade school. I love them too much to put that kind of guilt on them. I was constantly teased, picked on, and bullied by a few kids... and even the nicer kids never seemed to display any sort of empathy. Given the state of race relations in this country, and the overt disdain black people have for whites, I don't suppose I see how that would be surprising. Whites only think racism goes one way... they have no idea what its like for those of us in the trenches. Especially kids. 2054 15 •Reply•Share ›

"Jen" BTW is the white woman whose model of "reaching out" we're supposed to follow.

[Rummyfan]

Couldn’t the Schuykill and Delaware simultaneously flood?

[bassmaner]

Why is it that when [race removed by PC POLICE]s achieve political power, they tend to rule ... ahem ... 'govern' like Robert Mugabe?

Just sayin' ...

[Chainmail]

Didn’t Eric Holder say we are all cowards? Wonder why.

[MrB]

Graft and corruption are ubiquitous as well.
It seems almost an entitlement for [rrbpcp] politicians.

[Williams]

Frightening stuff, and the article was incredibly mild.

We are dealing with evil left wing racists.

[Above My Pay Grade]

Mayor Nutter should be in a jail cell right now for conspiracy to deny Costitutional rights of freedom of speech of freedom of the press.

He is certainly free to express opposing opinions, but for a public official to attmept to deny a publication the right to what is clearly 100% protected free speech is outrageous and if it is not criminal, it should be.

[Westbrook]

> Democrat tyrants would LOVE it if they could determine what
> you were allowed to read.

They already control what’s allowed to be read and said in the government schools and secular “universities”.

The good little commies have even “speech codes” in these institutions.

The Public School has become the bus ministry of the state church of secular humanism.

[I want the USA back]

If you are White, you have no right to free speech about race. If you are Christian or Jewish you have no right to free speech about bearded savages. If you are normal, you have no right to free speech about fang-toothed feminazis.

[Conserev1]

I live 20 miles from Philly and will not visit that city.
If Nutter want to investigate something why doesent he investigate why he cannot control black against black crime! Or any crime for that matter! The best place in Philly is the Airport to get the flock outta there!
The place is a piss pot of criminals!

[Godwin1]

Philadelphia, most of Washington DC, Baltimore, Detroit, Gary, Atlanta, Trenton, the south and west sides of Chicago. Moral and physical sewers presided over by Black Democrat pols. The Whites have long since fled. Decent Blacks are trapped among the layabouts and evildoers that form the Underclass Urban Democrat Base. Avoid these places like the plague.