Philadelphia blacks FED UP with murder rate and PROTEST
Thank you Philly. Hopefully, by example you show others that it is time to stop putting the blame on everyone and everything else, except the real problem. In Philadelphia 85 percent of the homicide victims are young black males.
MSNBC by way of Reuters reports on Oct. 22nd.:
"10,000 said to campaign against number of homicides in 'Killadelphia'
PHILADELPHIA - Thousands of black men gathered Sunday to launch a campaign to cut murders in Philadelphia, which suffers the highest homicide rate among big U.S. cities.
Organizers of the drive to put at least 10,000 volunteers on the streets said preliminary indications were that they met their target, and would in the next 30 days be able to send patrols into trouble spots to deter crime.
"Slavery, at this late time, is no longer an acceptable excuse," said A. Bruce Cawley, a prominent black businessman. He said that in the 325 years since blacks have lived in Philadelphia, they had been overtaken in prosperity by immigrant Irish, Jews, Italians, and now Asians and Hispanics." READ MORE...
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