HolyCoast: Philadelphia Mayor to Black Looters: "You Have Damaged Your Own Race"
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Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Philadelphia Mayor to Black Looters: "You Have Damaged Your Own Race"

Philadelphia is having a flash mob problem featuring black youth who rampage through parts of the city.  The Democrat Mayor isn't having any of it:
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.”...

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.
I wonder how the NAACP would have felt if a white mayor had said the same thing?

Don't get me wrong, I think Nutter is exactly right, but I detect a double standard would have been applied if for instance Rahm Emanuel had said that about rampaging black youth in Chicago.

1 comment:

Sam L. said...

And the NAACP's previous statements on flash mobs and youth dressing were...?