Mayor complains to Human Rights Commission about "Being White in Philly" article
Jenice Armstrong, Daily News Columnist
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Controversy over that problematic Philadelphia magazine March cover story called “Being White in Philly” continues to simmer. In the latest development, Mayor Michael Nutter has sent a letter to the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations decrying the “disgusting” tone of the piece and accusing the magazine of having “sunk to a new low even for a publication that has long pretended that its suburban readers were the only citizens civically engaged and socially active in the Philadelphia area.” In the piece, based on anonymous interviews, Robert Huber makes the claim that white people are afraid to talk about race for fear of being called racist.
“That the magazine thought a collection of these despicable, over-generalized, mostly anonymous assumptions rose to the level of journalism is unfortunate enough,” the mayor wrote. “Worse, some of the residents of the nation’s fifth-largest city who are quoted in the piece seem to have ignored every positive anecdote they might otherwise have shared about a positive experience with African-Americans in favor of negative stories, many of them not even clearly attributable to African-Americans at all, to allow the author to feed his own misguided perception of African-Americans – notwithstanding his own acknowledged daily experiences on his own block – as an ethnic group that, in its entirety, is lazy, shiftless, irresponsible, and largely criminal.”
Nutter asked that the Human Relations Commission “consider specifically whether Philadelphia magazine and the writer, Bob Huber are appropriate for rebuke by the Commission in light of the potentially inflammatory effect and the reckless endangerment to Philadelphia’s racial relations possibly caused by the essay’s unsubstantiated assertions.” ...
Hilariously, it doesn't seem to occur to Mayor Nutter that his reaction to the article 'Being White in Philly' confirms 100 percent of what the writer and others were saying about how in Philly, and of course, by extension, across the entire [dis]United States, whites are sensibly afraid to speak honestly about race, without causing some sort of uproar or possibly being punished, even if only socially, which is one of the punishments many people understandably fear the most. It also exposes as a lie that big dramatic statement intoned by AG Holder shortly after Obama took office, that we are a "nation of cowards" because we are afraid to discuss race.
Because obviously the last thing that the people holding power in the race industry, like Holder and Nutter, want is an actual honest discussion about race that might involve legitimate, to say the least, concerns that whites may have--like, oh gosh, I don't know, about their own and their kid's personal safety. They want a PC-scripted discussion, like the ones in all those government and industry 'sensitivity training sessions,' which are about as honest and freewheeling as the ones that the Maoists used to have with each other, after which they would finally conclude that they just needed to become even better, more loyal Maoists.
And you have to get a kick out of the mayor's criticism of the writer having interviewed people who were quoted only anonymously, since the interviewer was talking to such individuals as had, for example, experienced a violent black drug gang across their street. Allowing their names for publication would have meant their having a death wish--apparently no problem for the Nutter. (Hmm, ever notice how such attitudes against whites are never considered 'hate'?)
This leads to the obvious conclusion, that Mayor Nutter is little better than a thug himself. Think of it. He learns of the fear that many whites are living under--one interviewee happened to be wearing a pair of bent out of shape eye glasses, because he had recently been beaten by a black robber. And yet notice the complete lack of compassion or any feeling of the slightest responsibility on the part of the mayor. It isn't: This is terrible, I vow to make my city a safer place for my constituents! No, it is: attack the messenger.
Obviously, the last thing that those who have scampered to the top of the race-grievance industry want is to have any honest discussion about race, because the actual truth, that races are inherently different, that whites are not always inferior in such comparisons, and that different races will always be incompatible living cheek to jowl, must be constantly hidden, hidden and hidden again. Instead we are endlessly commanded to 'Celebrate diversity!' and the wonderful fact that we as whites will continue to exist in ever shrinking numbers. You are so right, Mayor Nutter, who would have ever thought that our grandkids' grandkids going out of existence could be so much fun?!
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