{"id":4099,"date":"2013-03-09T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T16:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=4099"},"modified":"2013-03-09T11:31:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T16:31:46","slug":"the-city-of-put-upon-curmudgeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2013\/03\/09\/the-city-of-put-upon-curmudgeons\/","title":{"rendered":"The City of Put-Upon Curmudgeons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2013\/03\/1303_Cover_Race-227x300.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4100\" alt=\"1303_Cover_Race-227x300\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2013\/03\/1303_Cover_Race-227x300.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The lead article in the most recent <i>Philadelphia Magazine<\/i>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/articles\/white-philly\/\">Being White In Philly<\/a>\u201d by Robert Huber, has\u2014to put it politely\u2014spurred a lot of talk. Huber devotes his article to sharing the \u201ctrue\u201d voice of white people scared to speak their minds about the many struggles they face living among Philadelphia\u2019s black residents. Since publication, Huber has been told in numerous venues that his piece ignores personal and institutional histories of racism, has an ugly, discriminatory core, and essentially perpetuates bigotry. Is Brotherly Love dead?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasalle.edu\/schools\/sas\/crj\/index.php?page=ftfaculty&amp;faculty=gallagher\">Charles Gallagher<\/a>, chair of race and ethnic relations at LaSalle University, commented on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxphilly.com\/story\/21514661\/race-in-america-philly-mags-being-white-in-philly\">Fox 29 News<\/a> that indeed, everybody talks about race, whether privately or publicly. But, Gallagher says, Huber\u2019s article only focuses on the opinions of white residents in a mixed neighborhood. What about people from minority groups? White residents across neighborhoods of varying segregation? Are there no \u201cwhite voices\u201d that enjoy living in a heterogeneous city? As a sociologist, Gallagher emphasizes that, beyond being offensive, Huber\u2019s piece generalizes where it has no grounds to do so: there is no <em>single<\/em> voice of white Philadelphians.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Volk, a colleague of Huber\u2019s, crafted <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phillymag.com\/the_philly_post\/2013\/03\/05\/being-white-philly-mag-race-story-is-racist\/\">his response<\/a> on one of <i>The Philly Post<\/i>\u2019s blogs. In it, Volk dismantles the original piece to reach a refreshingly blatant conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Huber] seems to miss the obvious here, which is that if white Philadelphians would like to be able to address race without being labeled \u201cracist,\u201d they should avoid saying racist things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lead article in the most recent Philadelphia Magazine, \u201cBeing White In Philly\u201d by Robert Huber, has\u2014to put it politely\u2014spurred a lot of talk. Huber devotes his article to sharing the \u201ctrue\u201d voice of white people scared to speak their minds about the many struggles they face living among Philadelphia\u2019s black residents. Since publication, Huber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[17208,39111,82,110],"class_list":["post-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-neighborhoods","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-segregation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}