Philebrity has unearthed what appears to be a truly nasty bit of Philadelphia racism: A You Tube clip, entitled "Bob Brady for mayor," with a bizzaro collection of images of African-American people dancing, Mayor Street, and Mumia Abu Jamal.
The only thing that ties the images together is that, if you are an enormous racist, I guess they seem threatening or something.
We only watched snippets of it because 1) it's both weird AND racist and 2) You Tube is a pain. But Philebrity reports that "suddenly, Bob Brady’s face appears on the screen. The montage continues, until just about the end, where a legend bears: “THIS MAY, DO THE RIGHT THING."
And then, we saw this part...the clip ends with a screen that reads "Fattah for Mayor" with the "Fattah" crossed out and "Brady" inserted.
Oh, for pete's sake, whoever the mystery racist (the You Tube account is Ward34D, and we all know Brady runs Philly's 34th ward) is that created this thing.
I'm happy to talk about the role that race could play in this campaign, based on voting patterns, the demographics of this city and the fact that, as of tonight, we have an interesting mix of extremely qualified African-American candidates and extremely qualified white candidates. And based on the fact that race relations in Philadelphia is something we SHOULD talk about, as people who care for our city.
But this business is just revolting.
Comments (3)
There is no way that video was made by Bob Brady. It would be suicide - kick off your campaign and release a racist email? It doesn't make sense coming from Brady - he's the only white Congressman in the country that represents a district with an African American majority.
Sounds more like one of the other candidates trying to sabotage Brady's campaign in the early hours...
Posted by Frank | January 25, 2007 7:59 PM
The video's back up.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NwPMwlOh2yI
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January 26, 2007 12:40 AM
wow. that is atrocious.
i agree with Frank in that i find it almost impossible to believe that Brady or his campaign staff is responsible for this.
it's possible fattah's people did it, but more likely that some racist from the 34th Ward put it together on his own.
assuming Brady isn't responsible, it is nonetheless incumbent upon him to condemn it.
Posted by Phaedrus | January 28, 2007 1:06 AM