city of brotherly love
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In City of Brotherly Love, White People Don Blackface During Parade—in 2020—Allegedly Channeling Philadelphia Flyers Mascot Gritty
2020 just kicked off and some white people are already showing their black asses. Oops, I mean wack asses. Folks still think it’s OK to wear blackface—in the City of Brotherly Love, of all places. Several marchers of Philadelphia’s Mummers Parade—an annual New Year’s Day tradition since 1901—were disqualified for wearing blackface while allegedly trying…
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Philadelphia, Where Blackness Transcends
If we needed a Capital of Blackness, we’d make it Philadelphia. Philly is the soundtrack to blackness, every facet of black life rolled into a hoagie of diasporic oneness. Every elastic, painful, ebullient chord, like Gerald Price’s mystically floating fingers across piano keys at Zanzibar Blue, or young brothers freestyle battling elder cats on trumpet…