Last week we brought to your interest an article from Philadelphia Magazine titled: “Being White In Philly“. Essentially the article highlights how race is tenuously handled in the city of ‘Brotherly Love’.
The fear of racism, or being considered a racist, was outlined in the magazine by showing how non-blacks pander to blacks out of an overbearing concern for political correctness. Examples were cited from individual interviews with non-blacks who attest to their intentional over consideration for black persons in daily interactions.
Dennis, 26, teaches math in a Kensington school. His first year there, fresh out of college, one of his students, an unruly eighth grader, got into a fight with a girl. Dennis told him to stop, he got into Dennis’s face, and in the heat of the moment Dennis called the student, an African-American, “boy.”
The student went home and told his stepfather. The stepfather demanded a meeting with the principal and Dennis, and accused Dennis of being racist; the principal defended his teacher. Dennis apologized, knowing how loaded the term “boy” was and regretting that he’d used it, though he was thinking, Why would I be teaching in an inner-city school if I’m a racist?
The stepfather calmed down, and that would have been the end of it, except for one thing: The student’s behavior got worse. Because now he knew that no one at the school could do anything, no matter how badly he behaved. (link)
This, and all of the accompanying insightful examples highlight fear on behalf of the non-blacks to confront the truth – the reality of race-based behavioral accepting.
Not surprisingly, for those who understand the investment in the guise, after the story was published the Major of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, proclaimed an “investigation is needed“.
Why? Well quite simply, the author had broached the third rail of racial conversation, “preference”. He was speaking to that truth which the racial grievance industry will not stand to allow.
The article, titled “Being White in Philly,” features a series of interviews with anonymous white residents from different areas of the city who share stories about their interaction with black residents.
Mayor Nutter calls the article’s tone “disgusting,” and he’s asked the Human Relations Commission to investigate some of the sensitive racial issues explored in the piece. (link)