I have used this article title twice previously, as The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote major stories on the murder of Samuel Sean Collington, a Temple University student approaching graduation. Mr Collington was a white victim, allegedly murdered by a black juvenile in a botched robbery. On December 2, 2021,the Inquirer published 14 photographs from a vigil for Mr Collington, along with another story about him. Five separate stories about the case of a murdered white guy. In September of last year, what I have frequently called The Philadelphia Enquirer published another big story about another white recent college grad, Everett Beauregard, murdered after an attempted robbery.
When it comes to the black victims of homicide, the Inky tells us little, because so many of the black victims have been thugs themselves. As we reported on Wednesday, the newspaper deliberately deletes information on the race of victims, because the #woke editors and staff think it will somehow be racist to do so. Yet the published stories, while they didn’t mention that Messrs Collington and Beauregard were white, published their photos, so the readers knew that they were.
And here they go again!
The number of aggravated assaults, robberies with a firearm, and thefts have increased near its main campus, and at a higher rate than the city as a whole, according to an analysis of police data.
by Susan Snyder and Chris A. Williams | Thursday, January 19, 2023 | 5:00 AM EST
The night before St. Joe’s student Tommy McBride was scheduled to serve as a coordinator at freshman orientation, he arrived at his home just four blocks from campus in Philadelphia’s Overbrook section.
“I was in my car sending a message to the leader team, telling everyone to get a good night’s rest and to get excited for the following day,” said the 21-year-old from Cherry Hill. “And as I was about to press send … a Dodge Charger pulls up right next to my car.”
Immediately, two males wearing ski masks and holding guns jumped out, pulled open his door, and dragged him out, he said. One of the gunmen fired into the air, then put a bullet in McBride’s knee.
While I do not like to use photos from the Enquirer Inquirer, I have included a screen capture of Mr McBride’s photo from the newspaper’s website — my subscription is digital only — to illustrate for readers how the newspaper, which never tells us explicitly that Mr McBride is white, lets us know anyway.
McBride never made freshman orientation that June week. He spent 12 weeks on crutches and still awaits another surgery. He and his college roommates left their house in the 2000 block of Upland Way and moved to nearby Manayunk.
“We all decided it was not safe physically and mentally to live there anymore,” he said, “especially with that not being the only incident of gun violence and crime” in the neighborhood.
Translation: Mr McBride and his roommates decided that they needed a safer, whiter neighborhood in Philly. Of course, adjacent Lower Merion was way too expensive!
I’ve done some work in Lower Merion, and I concluded that not only could I not afford a house there, I couldn’t even afford one of their driveways!
There is a long story about increasing crime incidents near St Joseph’s campus, but another illustration in the newspaper is worth more than a thousand words. You can click on the image to enlarge it. Another photo in the article, of the pleasant-looking street on which Mr McBride was shot, tells the reader how the criminal culture which has created the Philadelphia Badlands, a name the Inky hates, is moving into neighborhoods housing unarmed, unprotected, and naïve students around St Joseph’s and Drexel Universities.
In April of 2022, a survey by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that public safety was the most important issue concerning Philadelphians. The response of the editors? The Editorial Board told us that the real problem wasn’t crime and violence, but that white residents didn’t feel as threatened as “Black and Hispanic Philadelphians.”
Yet here, the newspaper is once again telling us about increasing crime and violence spreading to white residents. When it comes to crime, though the Inky has had some serious stories about how bad things are in Kensington, they are also telling us that things are getting worse in mostly white areas.
That the Editorial Board endorsed the George Soros-funded defense lawyer turned District Attorney, Let ’em Loose Larry Krasner, for re-election, tells us that they are not serious about fighting crime.
But maybe, just maybe, their story about crime creeping up in white areas will shake up the white, liberal voters in Chestnut Hill and Center City and Rittenhouse Square, and get them to consider that, just possibly, voting for the further left, the ‘progressive’ Democrats, in primary and general elections hasn’t worked out well for the city.
Broad + Liberty’s Philadelphia Homicide Tracker noted that the dead body found on January 23rd was not classified as a homicide by the Philadelphia Police Department, although the website did not tell us how the police did categorize it. And there was no change in the PPD’s Current Crime Statistics page to indicate that it was a homicide.
