August 21, 2006
Ghetto A$$ T-shirts Gotta Go
Philly Confidential would like to praise colleague Damon Williams for his front-page piece on violent t-shirts.
The story details this strange trend where merchants are selling shirts featuring Cap’N Crunch smoking marijuana, gunmen pointing their weapons on a potato chip bag, and a variety of other morbid crap.
Why would adults promote these things knowing Philly is a city of murder?
Storeowners and workers wouldn’t answer the question to aggressive young staffer Christine Olley. Read her story and learn how these businessmen can promote this garbage but won’t explain why they do it.
Meanwhile, these shirts can not be found on classy shopping strips like Rittenhouse Square’s Walnut Street or North 2nd Street in NoLibs. Storeowners are pumping these horrendous items through the city’s most violent neighborhoods subconsciously okaying a criminal lifestyle.
Hey middle-class shop owners, go sell these shirts in your own freakin’ neighborhoods.
Posted by simone at August 21, 2006 12:47 PMI don't think it's any great mystery why people want to sell these: $$$. And they'll sell tons of them to the idiots who think these things are cool. The sellers are having the last laugh....all the way to the bank.
Posted by: Annie at August 21, 2006 07:32 PMThats why I moved out of Philly. No one cares about anything. We need to discuus that.
Over the past thirty years, the rise in violent crime parallels the rise in families abandoned by fathers.
High-crime neighborhoods are characterized by high concentrations of families abandoned by fathers.
State-by-state analysis by Heritage scholars indicates that a 10 percent increase in the percentage of children living in single-parent homes leads typically to a 17 percent increase in juvenile crime.
The rate of violent teenage crime corresponds with the number of families abandoned by fathers.
The type of aggression and hostility demonstrated by a future criminal often is foreshadowed in unusual aggressiveness as early as age five or six.
The future criminal tends to be an individual rejected by other children as early as the first grade who goes on to form his own group of friends, often the future delinquent gang.