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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “All Roads Lead to Kensington,” on how the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia went from an ordinary, white-majority area to a multicultural hellscape full of drug addicts. See below. (more…)
Drug addict in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood with open wounds on her arm, a needle by her side, and a vacant stare in her eyes.
Drug addict in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood with open wounds on her arm, a needle by her side, and a vacant stare in her eyes.
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It took a couple centuries, but Whitetown, USA has been successfully integrated, meaning that the blighted streets of Philly’s notoriously low-rent, white-trash Kensington neighborhood are now a place where everyone, regardless of race, can share needles and drop dead together like a righteous coalition of rainbow-colored flies.
Fifty years ago, Kensington was a rough-and-tumble but nearly all-white neighborhood about five miles northeast of Center City. It’s now a multicultural open grave. (more…)
Fishtown, Philadelphia in 2019.
Fishtown, Philadelphia in 2019.
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The corner of Kensington and Allegheny Avenues — known colloquially as “K&A” — is the Hollywood and Vine of poor-white Philadelphia. K&A is also a major subway stop on the Market-Frankford subway line that runs eastward from K&A all the way up into Northeast Philly, also known (for reasons that should be obvious) as “The Great White Northeast.” An elevated line throughout that part of town, the train runs westward and then tunnels underground into Center City — they don’t call it “Downtown” in Philly — and then back above ground out past mostly black West Philly. (more…)