It was a lame article that didn’t do anything to promote a discussion of race. All it did was promote the idea that white people are so afraid of black people that they can’t talk about them. I think the editor decided to play Karl Rove game of attacking the attacker. Does the mayor of a city with 43% black people have no right to comment on a story about race relations in his city? Did any of you know just how white the staff of Philadelphia Magazine is? The editotrial board is 100% white. The article has some stuff about white students who worry about living in bad neighborhoods near colleges. It never occurs to the author that the black students who live in those neighborhoods are also afraid of crime. I used to work in a bad neighborhood, where you had to be afraid of the white people. Is there a difference? When asked if he would have done anything differently, he answered that he would have pointed out that there are many middle class black people and even professional black people who live in Philadelphia.