re: #216 Mattand

Here’s the thing with that: given the amount of racial tension still present in Philadelphia, if that incident was as bad as the rest of the country says it is, it would have been front page news.

It wasn’t. I read the Inquirer online almost every day and have for years. The cops shooed the guys along after an hour. It was a non-incident.

The only thing that incident is useful is what you describe in your post: an illustration of how white people can walk around armed to the teeth and no one says boo, but a black guy with a night stick is somehow a race war.

It was not front page news for several reasons:

a) Virginia is an open-carry state. After investigation it was determined that the man was both outside the perimeter for electioneering, and that his open-carry was lawful/

b) He shouldn’t (as in courtesy) have asked who the woman was voting for but speech crime is not illegal.