Posted on 08/08/2011 8:30:40 PM PDT by BBell
PHILADELPHIA — Mayor Michael A. Nutter, telling marauding black youths “you have damaged your own race,” imposed a tougher curfew Monday in response to the latest “flash mob” - spontaneous groups of teens who attack people at random on the streets of the city’s tourist and fashionable shopping districts.
“Take those God-darn hoodies down, especially in the summer,” Mr. Nutter, the city’s second black mayor, said in an angry lecture aimed at black teens. “Pull your pants up and buy a belt ‘cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt.”
“If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you? They don’t hire you ‘cause you look like you’re crazy,” the mayor said. “You have damaged your own race.”
Mr. Nutter announced that he was beefing up police patrols in certain neighborhoods, enlisting volunteers to monitor the streets and moving up the weekend curfew for minors to 9 p.m.
Parents will face increased fines for each time their child is caught violating the curfew.
The head of Philadelphia’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, J. Whyatt Mondesire, said it “took courage” for Mr. Nutter to deliver the message.
“These are majority African-American youths and they need to be called on it,” Mr. Mondesire said.
Mary Catherine Roper, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said her group sees the curfew move as legal with its sole caveat being that it not evolve “into an excuse to hassle” any youths on the street.
The state ACLU filed a federal lawsuit last year challenging Philadelphia
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what about the summer of 2012?
I don’t know, but this guy is RACISS!
On a serious note, good for him. Thank God someone is pointing this out.
You don't mean the bombing (from a helicopter) of the MOVE house on Osage Avenue and subsequent destruction of a whole city block of private houses owned by middle-class black people, do you? The police prevented the fire department from moving in to fight the fire.
"Let the bunker burn."
LOL! Don’t candy-coat it, Mr. Mayor!
I was thinking about the spring of 1985.
Only reason he’s “talking tough” is because the rich downtown (i.e., white) business owners are having trouble bringing in their suckers (I mean customers) from the suburbs.
DING DING DING! We have a winner.
I remember a story a while back where black youth entered stores wearing a shirt and tie. They were amazed to be greeted with “can I help you sir?”
Guess Bill Cosby was right eh?
...imposed a tougher curfew Monday in response to the latest "flash mob" - spontaneous groups of teens who attack people at random on the streets of the city's tourist and fashionable shopping districts. "Take those God-darn hoodies down, especially in the summer," Mr. Nutter, the city's second black mayor, said in an angry lecture aimed at black teens. "Pull your pants up and buy a belt 'cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt. If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy... You have damaged your own race." ...Parents will face increased fines for each time their child is caught violating the curfew.
Maybe Chicago will take note.
Bill was right but nobody wanted to listen to him.
“If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you? They don’t hire you ‘cause you look like you’re crazy,” the mayor said. “You have damaged your own race.”
Will Mr. Nutter get the same treatment as Bill Cosby?
Good for Mayor Nutter.
He did it from a Church Pulpit of course.
If this garbage keeps up Philadelphia will end up like Detroit. I don’t think I will ever go there again. Very sad that decent people have to be afraid of traveling to certain places in this country.
Probably not. It seems he already has the NAACP and ACLU backing him. Still waiting on Jessie and Al.
Didn’t he drop a bomb on the radial MOVE group and burn down two city blocks?
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