Philadelphia the most racist city?

[BALLZ2BHERE]

Oh its a series...of course we are on the list of suspects....But naw, we ain't the one...

and I love the 3% Mystery Box, as I live in that box..


And toi fan the flames: "Northeast Philly racism has nothing on the bitter poor white trash of Kensington".

I'm guessing you do not get to kensington much ? Most of that bitter whit trash your talking about,have mixed race kids.

[6enny]

Boston gets my vote.

[Travelgirl]

Glad everyone seems to agree Gawker is the journalistic equivalent of cotton candy. It's a dubious contest to be holding and one nobody wins.

[iheartphilly]

Interesting that they're using examples from the 1800's, 1980's & 1964. This is why I never read Gawker. What nonsense.

[gideon]

the racism here is thick. in fishtown, my wife got it from a bunch of the old timers. in brewerytown, i've gotten it from my neighbors. most recently thursday last week.

but most of it really has nothing to with the color of anothers skin. it's mostly invoked when a piece of trash doesn't want to accept responsibility for what they do. that counts for both offending skin "colors". i don't take it personally, neither does my wife.

[annie]

Why was this posted in West Philly?

[FMT]

The topic is a bit of a running joke at the gawker site. Today, they profile Boston and its racism.

[Travelgirl]

Why was this posted in West Philly?

Because I'm new... sorry, should have been in General Discussion.

[Kukla65th]

Racism played a role in many major neighborhood population shifts in West Philly in even the last 15 years. This thread could be posted in any neighborhood forum and be appropriately placed, really.

[OffenseTaken]

It has a lot to do with that Gawker writers come and go much faster then "real journalism". Only maybe one or two writers on the site right now have more then 5 years under their belt being at Gawker.

Which is why you get this imitation of former writers as that is the basic of how you land a job at Gawker, but when its time to evolve and move up, you usually take another job else where....

That's interesting. You make it sound like The Onion, except they take themselves more seriously.

What I think is especially odd is that you see higher-quality work coming from the writers for Gawker's other properties than you do from Gawker itself. You will never see Gizmodo or Lifehacker run a piece that is as absurd or as lazy as the piece this thread links to.

Racism played a role in many major neighborhood population shifts in West Philly in even the last 15 years. This thread could be posted in any neighborhood forum and be appropriately placed, really.

That might be true if its title were "Has Racism Ever Existed Somewhere in Philadelphia?"

[Giavella Water]

Racism played a role in many major neighborhood population shifts in West Philly in even the last 15 years. This thread could be posted in any neighborhood forum and be appropriately placed, really.

True, in the 1990,s I read the entire South east Asian community moved out of West Philly after several were brutally beaten with steel reinforcing rods by some blacks.

[phillykatie]

No moderator to move it? Oh how I loved the Southwest Center thread when LB would move issues to The Dump.

[annie]

True, in the 1990,s I read the entire South east Asian community moved out of West Philly after several were brutally beaten with steel reinforcing rods by some blacks.

Yes, there is no Southeast Asian community west of the Schuylkill. Not a single Southeast Asian person here, in fact. Thanks for your invaluable contribution to this thread, as always.

[seand]

Yes, there is no Southeast Asian community west of the Schuylkill. Not a single Southeast Asian person here, in fact. Thanks for your invaluable contribution to this thread, as always.

Next time I'm pestering Nick Lai about when we are going to get Philly Flavors on Baltimore Ave, I'll have to bring up this alarming development, maybe right before I go purchase dinner from the local owners of Vientienne or Vietnam, if I don't just go for a banh mi from Fu Wah.