"The Philadelphia Negro Report" - Philly Green Party Says Youth Curfews Pushed By Black Democratic Mayor And City Council Is 'The New Jim Crow"

Philly Greens Call Curfew, "new Jim Crow

For the second time this week the key talking points from "The Civil Rights Movement" have been hijacked and applied to the actions of a city with a Black mayor who received "50% +1" of the popular Black vote.

It shows that these words are NOT spoken as a means of accurately modeling the real world that Black people experience every day.  Instead the speak knows the gravity of these words upon "the Negro mind" and they are said as a means of latching a tether to draw him into whatever cause they are selling.

Mayor Michael Nutter (D-PA)  - Popularly Elected By Black People In Philadelphia

Police Chief Charles Ramsey - Now In Philly, Formerly In Washington DC and Chicago

Wikipedia - Philadelphia City Council entry

Earlier this year I reported on the contents of the NPR "Radio Times" episode that looked at poverty in the city of Philadelphia.   Despite the fact that this is a majority Black city the Blacks who were interviewed by a University of Pennsylvania professor felt "Economically Disenfranchised".

This set up the framework for my personal visit to my hometown.  I conducted a tour that followed in the footsteps of W.E.B. Du Bois which I entitled "The New Philadelphia Negro".    I went on a shopping spree in West and Southwest Philly in order to see how things have changed in the 25 years that I had been gone.

I reported that while the Black neighborhoods were economically stagnant - the Dominicans, Chinese, Koreans, Indian/Pakistanis and Black Americans who had converted to Islam had opened quite a few businesses in the Black shopping districts that were otherwise called "deserts".

Today the issue is about the teen curfew that the city leaders have adopted.
As you recall the city had a problem with "Flash Mobs".  The anarchic actions of a few (majority Black) teens triggered a public safety crisis. The violence that is typically looked past when it occurs in West, North, South or SouthWest Philly made headlines as South Street and the riverfront area became the grounds for such attacks.

The Green Party of Philadelphia - sensing an opportunity to make some headway is now saying that these actions by the city government amount to "The New Jim Crow".