#TWIBradio #382 | BEING WHITE IN PHILLY
On #TWIBradio: Being White In Philly is Apparently Very Hard.
#TeamBlackness discusses Bill Cosby explaining how far we haven’t come, the most gangsta song ever to be played in the history of rap–like ever, and finally the crew break’s down Robert Huber’s piece “Being White in Philly” with University of Pennsylvania Professor Anthea Butler and TWiB Associate Blog Editor and Journalism degree having host of This Tastes Funny Emily Epstein White.
Featuring: Dacia Mitchell, Aaron Rand Freeman, and Elon James Whites
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Filed Under: Anthea Butler, Being White In Philly, Bill Cosby, Emily Epstein White, Philadelphia Magazine, Race Issues In Philly, Robert Huber
I just wanted to say there is more than one black person from the Main Line in Philadelphia. I count myself as one of them. So it’s at least me, my brother, and Kobe.
The worst part is the comment on foreigners. My partner and I hail from Britain me via Jamaica and yes foreigners see it straight, but not from the point of view of this poor white man subjected to black people in Philly. We see it in the context of INSTITUTIONALIZED rascism where the dialog is no dialog but one of incessant blaming the people you put in the worst socio-ecocomic position for the position they are in.
Second, the only thing I’ve seen start to work in this country is desegregation… Integration got us to where we are now not the best but there is a dialog. Continued sharing of space and lives is what helps. In England we have to share space there is no space