That’s my old neighborhood. It’s a frigging ghetto now.
He was attacked because he’s white.
When I was growing up it was a neighborhood full of WWII and Korea vets, raising kids and working in the numerous small factories and small businesses that were all over.
The problem was Olney High School, which bussed in minorities from all over the city; whenever school season was open, there were racial problems as they’d walk through the streets breaking soda bottles and leaving trash on peoples’ properties, breaking into folks’ cars, houses, ganging up on local white kids, etc. There were cops INSIDE the school.
When summer came, there were no issues.
Gee...what a coincidence.
White Flight to the suburbs started in the 80s and now it is what it is.
A shame. It was a nice area once upon a time.
Reference “Essays on Political Economy” by Frederic Bastiat (1874)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15962/15962-h/15962-h.htm
That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause—it is seen.
The others unfold in succession—they are not seen: it is well for us if they are foreseen. Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference—the one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are seen and also of those which it is necessary to foresee.
Now this difference is enormous, for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favourable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. Hence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good, which will be followed by a great evil to come, while the true economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil.
In fact, it is the same in the science of health, arts, and in that of morals. If often happens, that the sweeter the first fruit of a habit is, the more bitter are the consequences. Take, for example, debauchery, idleness, prodigality. When, therefore, a man, absorbed in the effect which is seen, has not yet learned to discern those which are not seen, he gives way to fatal habits, not only by inclination, but by calculation.
This explains the fatally grievous condition of mankind. Ignorance surrounds its cradle: then its actions are determined by their first consequences, the only ones which, in its first stage, it can see. It is only in the long run that it learns to take account of the others. It has to learn this lesson from two very different masters—experience and foresight. Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves. For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one. I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.
Olney and NE Philly were never “nice.” They just went from six-pack seedy to ghetto ghoulishness.