They are I appreciate the additional source. After some quick googling I’ve seen Philly as “low” as 13 and as high as 2 per Inky so there’s some variability in the methods that I don’t understand. Either way, it seems like many northeast more industrial cities, Philly is highly segregated. Could be our size during the Industrial Revolution attracted many black southerners and entrenched them in certain areas due to red lining. Maybe Boston had a smaller migration of black southerners during this period seeking work in northeast cities

Ok gotta be careful here. This article includes Wilmington and Camden in our metro area. Two very segregated cities that probably make us look worse on average. Also a metro area that dwarves the Boston metro area by population (especially minority population) so I’m not sure if any of their data is corrected for population. Your posting a 6ABC article to make a demographic data argument. I would find a better source

If you need religion to tell you what is right and wrong and act as the main source of inspiration for ethical behavior in your life then I truly feel sorry for you.

It’s only hundreds of years late but the pope is finally considering ending the ban on marriage for priests. That is a start, but forgive me if I am not rushing to pat you all on the back for finally embracing some progressive changes to your famously regressive and corrupt institutions

Here’s the full list you scumbag:

https://projects.propublica.org/credibly-accused/diocese/archdiocese-of-philadelphia/

I’m sure you know many of them, but I believe the church prefers “father”.

This is one of the most hand waving BS arguments I have ever encountered. You’re sloppily ducking the core of the question with some arm chair, half assed philosophizing all over the simple proposition: don’t apologize for people who abuse children and the organizations that enabled predators of children

I’ll drag it through the mud every chance I get. There’s sectarian bullshit in this very comment section you tribal idiots.

These same tight knit immigrant communities youre romanticizing kept the abuse from reaching authorities because everyone knew each other and would run cover.

Philly is right up there with Boston in terms of scale and severity of abuses and the church did nothing but find another parish for predators to hunt.

Take your child abuse apologizing elsewhere. This isn’t some small immigrant city in the south or Midwest. This is/was among the epicenters of unspeakable acts of abuse against children aided and abetted by the Catholic archdiocese of philadelphia

I thought the windows were high so you wouldn’t be able to walk by and see them abusing children

On Point Bistro

I wish a large group of activists cared about these black lives. I guess there’s just no money in it. sad

Sometimes I think most of this city is straight up idiots

But if you're looking for a better steak in an arcade setting, you are shit out of luck.

Philly water is not that bad for a large US city. Just fyi https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna41354370

Can you really substantiate this claim with good evidence or is this hyperbole? Genuinely curious about the source of your claim that this crime was the result of a political party calling anyone “ to action”

Meh..it has been happening along with national urbanization trends in the cities you mentioned and others over the past decade. However, this is a new level of scope/ambition for an investment in a Philly project that is not based on a area that is trending towards gentrification but planting a flag and hoping similar developments will flow downstream. It’s a bold strategy cotton…

Kudos for getting to Penn Museum. Very underrated imo