Human Relations Commission disappointed with "Being White in Philly" article
And some people say we don't talk enough about race.
Human Relations Commission disappointed with "Being White in Philly" article
Jenice Armstrong, Daily News Columnist
And some people say we don't talk enough about race. Five years ago today, Pres. Obama gave his famous speech on the topic at the National Constitution Center.
Tonight, the Consitution Center will be host a panel discussion on race, that was prompted by Philadelphia Magazine's controversial March cover story called, "Being White in Philly."
Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission has sent a letter to Tom McGrath, editor of Philadelphia Magazine, expressing concern about the piece and invited McGrath and his colleagues to attend the commission's next public meeting on April 18 to be held in the Fairmount/Brewerytown area of the city. No location has been determined as of yet.
"Like the mayor and a multitude of other community and faith-based leaders, the PCHR finds the the article's hyperbolic rhetoric serves little to no useful purpose except to offend the city's African American community at large," Rue Landau said in a letter to McGrath. Read the full letter here.
The "Commission" has no power or relevance, so regardless of how stupid the article is, who cares what they think? The clowns at Philly Mag are laughing more each day at how much mention this thing is getting.— draka- After all this blow-back, the author should be kicking himself for writing such a milquetoast article and not producing a more accurate, hard-hitting story--things are a lot worse than anything Huber managed to get into print; he should have gone big because the political machine doesn't want this topic discussed and will not tolerate anything like it again.— frontandwildey
- Bunch of idiots. The letter is dated 3/18.......2003 !— gonegator
- Gonegator: It's a numbers problem. Blame it on the (city) school system. Stooges obviously can't interpret statistics - spent all their time learning how to manipulate systems.
— Sammy from Macungie - We now have ceremonial semi-official sanction. Hooray for the status quo. No hope. No change.— tr88
- Whites move out of the city = White Flight
Whites move into the city = Generification
No matter what they do...their racist!— APhillyDump - Read the Philly Mag article for yourself. It rings true. We've been ignoring the elephant in the room too long. This is stand-up comedy, but it rings true - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tkZuLixZOk.— DarnelX
- We dont talk about race. We get talked at by the failures in the race industry about race.— tr88
- the article's hyperbolic rhetoric serves little to no useful purpose except to offend the city's African American community at large
I'm white. I live in Philly. although I found the article insensitive and mainly a suburbanite perspective, there were some comments in the article that I thought were constructive and served a purpose. like saying living in Philly these days is scary and yall should know it. and guess what african americans know it and they shouldn't be offended by people saying it. everything is not OK. and what is being done to fix the enormous amount of violent crime????? what should come out of this? ACTION AGAINST THE CRIME AND ITS CONTRIBUTING FACTORS.
- I'm disappointed with the dysfunctionallity of too large a segment of the African American community.— Gimmemyfreestuff
Philadelphia Magazine is a racist publication, and they should not be allowed to sell their publication in the city. Our leaders of our city must protect us from hate speech!— BOOKKA- Bookka - The TRUTH is never racist nor anti-Semitic.
— Professor1982 - Bookka - The TRUTH is never racist nor anti-Semitic. — Professor1982
- Did you read the article? — junethe4th
- In next month's Philadelphia Magazine: "Being Stupid in Philly: The Democrat Party's Response."— b,ill a,tkins
Read more from Jenice Armstrong at Earth to Philly, the Daily News blog on anything and everything "Green."
Reach Jenice at armstrj@phillynews.com.
