Milton Street On The Class Of ‘07: All Y’All Are House Ni**ers! Some Of You Might Be Dumb, Too!
So what does Milton think of his rivals? Well, here is the shortened version, gleaned from a 45-minute interview from a booth in the back of a McDonalds at 10th and Market.
Bob Brady - “Doesn’t have the brainpower to be mayor. You know it and I know it. He is a good old guy who was a carpenter on the street.”
Michael Nutter - “Michael who?” Milton actually used a racial slur to say former [sic] Nutter, who like Street is black, was not black enough.
Chaka Fattah - “He’s okay.” If he would stay in Congress and do his job by focusing on rising to become chairman of a subcommittee of the powerful Appropriations panel.
Dwight Evans. ‚ÄúI don‚Äôt see why Rep. Evans is running when he could be Speaker of the House. He’s in line to be Speaker, the Speaker moves the legislation. So what kind of deal was cut? You have a black problem and you make a deal to have a white Republican Speaker of the House?‚Ķ It‚Äôs time that black people take care of black people. We can‚Äôt pass this responsibility off on Speaker O‚ÄôDonnell,” (Oops.) “I‚Äôm sorry, Speaker O‚ÄôBrien. If he doesn‚Äôt want to be speaker, he is afraid of political power.‚Äù
Holy shit, this thing just became NO OINTMENT AND ALL FLY. Think about it: First day out, Milty is bitching out reporters in the back of McDonald’s, telling folks that Bob Brady rides the short bus and somehow ‚Äî this is the magic bit ‚Äî playing the race card on two other African-American candidates. But how, you say!!!!! Shhh, loverpie. Uncle Milty is only just getting started.
Mayorpalooza: Tell The Truth, This Guy Is So Batshit You Almost Wanna Vote For Him
February 16th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Choice quote from one of today’s Daily News articles about Milton Street:
“According to his federal indictment, he lives in Moorestown, N.J. Street said he just spends time there with a ‘lady friend’ and doesn’t own the home.”
I guess the subtext there is: don’t playa-hate.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:58 am
“All Y’all are some house n*ggers???????????????”.
First the insulting freeway post, now this ignorant headlline. You guys are on a roll!! I guess since none of the writers on this blog actually interact with black people, you guys get a pass for being so fucking stupid and insulting. When a website geared towards black culture does a spoof on freeway its kosher, when you guys do it, its complete mockery. Same goes for the Street headline.
By the way, your attempts at humor are a disgrace. Being snarky doesn’t equal being funny.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Who is this Mr. Boring idiot?
If Milton called Nutter a nigger, there’s no way around that. Milton’s not exactly the most enlightened fella on the planet, ya know, and that’s even MORE of a reason to make fun of him.
If Philebrity did anything wrong, they should have spelled out nigger in the headline, rather than protect itself against knee-jerking p.c. types like Mr. Boring.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:27 am
You are a moron. That wasn’t a direct quote from Milton Street. Philebrity, in its best attempt to sound like an agitated black person, put those words in his mouth (the alleged evidence is simply that he used the n word).
I am not defending Street,just pointing out how Philebrity likes to take liberties that it wouldn’t take if this blog was actually read by black people!!
I’d love to see the writers of this blog talk like they write, but that would never happen. Its easy to use hip-hop slang, make stereotypical jokes about rappers, put ignorant words in peoples mouth, etc., when there are no black people around to hear you say/write it.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Mr. Boring,how the fuck do you know who reads the content of this blog? Perhaps after gaining some insight and a sense of humor,you can familiarize with the concept of paraphrasing. It’s a concept often employed to summarize the blathering of an inarticulate buffoon.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:56 am
You fool.
“Its easy to use hip-hop slang, make stereotypical jokes about rappers, put ignorant words in peoples mouth, etc., when there are no black people around to hear you say/write it. ”
And it’s way easier when the speaker is Milton Street, who called Nutter a nigger (that’s the clearly identified racial slur) and then alluded that Nutter wasn’t black enough, which taken together means, in common ignorant parlance, “house nigger.” Milton Street should be made fun of. Mocking the language Milton uses is an excellent way to do it.
Philebrity, if anything, is pointing out the screaming hypocrisy (and inherent bigotry) of an totally unenlightened, crazy, indicted black man calling another successful, very important black man a nigger who isn’t black enough.
Mr. Boring, it seems, would start a fight in an empty house.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:20 am
I made a mistake. The article Philebrity quoted never said that Milton used the n word, it just says “racial slur”.
Philebrity (an all white blog) didn’t “paraphrase” Street, it slandered him. Perhaps the idiots on this board will argue that this story was a parody. If so, where is the humor?
Again, I beg the authors to please write like they speak. Sitting in your cozy N.Liberties hipster pad, its real easy to type a bunch of racially charged bullshit and hit “submit”. But, please, walk a few blocks into North Philly with your skin tight jeans and leather jackets, take out a megaphone, and read the articles about Freeway and Milton Street that are posted on this blog. This blog is cowardly if anything. Listening to Spankrock doesnt give you a pass to mock black culture, use hip hop slang you wouldnt dare use in front of blacks, or write the bullshit headline that appears above.
Cowards.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Philebrity is entirely justified in mocking the Mayor’s brother - by paraphrasing his racist, uneducated rant on mayoral candidates far more qualified.
What Philebrity is NOT doing is mocking black culture - unless, of course, you are so foolish as to believe that the slang language of Milton Street is representative of all things African-American.
Apparently, Mr. Boring thinks it is.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:40 am
By the way, Mr. Boring - identify thy feeble minded self, would you please?
February 16th, 2007 at 11:45 am
I’m done with this place. Concorc- please look up the definition of paraphrasing. Next, show me how the “slang language” of Milton street was, in any way, represented, and not blatantly falsified, by the headline. Finally, get a big group of your fellow white Philebrity readers and head down to a black neighborhood and speak like Philebrity writes.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:47 am
“By the way, Mr. Boring - identify thy feeble minded self, would you please?”
I’m someone with enough real life experience dealing with all cultures and races to know the differences between edgy humor and racist mocking.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:52 am
jesus. give it a rest, jerry mondesire.
the quoted article didn’t say milton said the n-word because it’s paid for by the inquirer and run by three white reporters — i.e., they’re not GOING to say the n-word. in effect, philebrity is doing what they would not.
consider the levels of slander you purport are happening here:
on one hand, you have a blog which discloses its use of conjecture up front and which lampoons current events. the subject in question seems to write his own lampoons every time he speaks. philebrity paraphrased what was already said.
on the other hand, you have someone with a historically questionable past who claims to be running for public office beginning his campaign (in mcdonald’s, mind you) by implying that brady is dumb and that nutter is not black enough, going as far as using a “racial slur” that any intelligent person considering the parties (milton street and michael nutter) KNOWS was ‘house nigger’.
so which is the greater offense: being a poison mouthed dolt or making fun of a poison mouthed dolt?
February 16th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Racist mocking?
Philebrity’s mocking a racist rant!
February 16th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Finally, some comments heat on a cold, cold day.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
who is defending Milton Street? my sole point is that trying to write as if you sit in the shoes of an edgy black writer, speaking on topics that relate to black culture (that freeway piece) or black people, is, in my opinion, offensive and ignorant. Philebrity is a website, not a person, but it obviously has a white identity. Chris Rock can write a headline like the one above, but you guys can’t. PERIOD. my other point was simply the observation that there is no fucking way the people at Philebrity speak like they write…or at least, they don’t speak that way when black people are around. that should be journalism 101, along with pure common sense. all the hip hop slang isn’t trendy it just makes you guys look like assholes.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I’m just waiting for someone to come in with, “Some of philebrity’s best friends are black, and not just blipsters.”
While it’s likely Uncle Milt used “house nigger” to describe Nutter as “not black enough” for Philadelphia Mayor, the Philebrity headline does hyperbolically exagerate the comment, implying none of the candidates are “black enough.” The ‘truth’ is cleared up in the post’s quoted matter; but the Philebrity headline was a bit sensationalistically deceptive, as if Milt’s whole justification for candidacy is a racial tirade. Some, mostly white folks, got a quick laugh out of philebrity black facing an exaggerated and not completely accurate soundbite, others got offended. I’d leave it at that.
You know, it’s odd that the actual interview has Street knocking Nutter down on race, but apparently has nothing to say about Brady’s whiteness. Now from what I’ve seen, Milton Street can be a little incoherrent; but Marcia Gelbert should know an interview isn’t just sitting there with a tape recorder and letting the guy hold forth without question. I mean, she isn’t with the White House Press Corps. She should be asking questions in order to get a clear picture for her readers. Wait, I forget, she works for the Inky so she’s really just trying to pander for a readership, and hold onto her job, by pandering out “news” with laugh tracks. Maybe she’s done a study of Philebrity, forgetting that Philebrity isn’t so much a news source as a news filter.
Is the 10th and Market McDonalds the knew political power meeting place, or was the setting a symbolic move on part of M. Street’s contempt for transfats?
February 16th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
“Chris Rock can write a headline like the one above, but you guys can‚Äôt. PERIOD.”
Mr. Boring apparently believes that mocking racism is a black thing and white people just wouldn’t understand it.
It’s utter nonsense like the aforementioned quotation that perpetuates the employment of silly phrases like “the N-word” or “N**ger” when reporting that Milton Street called somebody a nigger!
February 16th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Conorcorohfuckitcornholio,
Yep on Mr. Boring. In his book, Sara Silverman and some of David Cross’s Mr. Show appearances are also racist. Cuz, you know racism is black and white for Mr. Boring. You know, like sin.
Still. The headline didn’t say Milton street called someone a nigger. It implied Milton Street called a whole bunch of people, the mayoral pool, niggers. There is a difference, and how “accountable” Philebrity is to that sort of accuracy is up in the air. You might defend it as paraphrase, but inaccurate inflammatory paraphrase that might’ve been written too quickly in the heat of the moment for a laugh factor.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
you know, it really sucks to be known by the company you keep because i really like leaving comments, but this is just, well, it’s pretty pathetic. kids. let’s not bicker. go get some lunch. let the food digest a little. think about things like the quantum mechanics, the solar system, endometriosis, hopscotch, aardvarks, and the extraordinarily brief amount of time that the human race will use up, and then play nice. because, in the grand scheme of things, you guys are fighting over something that should not matter to anyone but douchebags. wait a minute! you guys are a bunch of douchebags!!! fuck!!!
February 16th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Dear Fuckermost -
No, you’re wrong. Philebrity is about celebrating the best of Philadelphia, and mocking the worst - such as Milton Street, or, as here, the misguided (and dangerous) ranting of Philadelphians such as Mr. Boring.
I’m not sure that racism is a matter best left to douchebags like Mr. Boring. I think all of the aforementioned commentary indicates that Philebrity has a very literate, considered readership - as well as types like Mr. Boring.
Commentaries like this affirm the intellectual capabilities of many Philadelphians, good and bad. Commentaries like this are important.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Impaler - if you think David Cross would co-sign this website, then i guess i have overestimated his sense of humor and intelligence. its not just racisim that offended me by Philebrity putting words in Street’s mouth, its the fact that Philebrity only pushes the envelope because they don’t have a black audience. I think its repulsive when people speak/write differently just cause they can get away with it. If you disagree with me, please ask Philebrity to publish this article on a locally geared website that has a predominiately black audience.
Conorc- the more you type, the deeper the whole. philebrity should send you a free tshirt for all the cheerleading you are doing. sheep.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
yes we is. wait…what are we doing?
February 16th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
“But, please, walk a few blocks into North Philly with your skin tight jeans and leather jackets, take out a megaphone”
OOOOh whos steroeotyping now?
Mr. boring, It sounds like you don’t have many white friends.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Boring, I agree that Philebrity is too quick to put on the typographic blackface to get laughs at its “edgy” use of language. But to call Philebrity out on this solely I think is headbutting a tree in a forest. This isn’t just Philebrity’s “problem”; but it’s an instance of what d’ya wanna call it, “neo pseudo ironic minstrelry?” that’s pervasive across “hip” media culture post at least Tarrantino. Without unpacking the whole alt and mainstream culture industry, I’ll just put it this way to you, Silverman and Cross are on the “acceptable” side of this for you, to me Philebrity is playing the idiot fool in this, whereas someone like Michael Richards has clearly lost it. This issue ain’t just in the super-current hipter trendy either. Mad Magazine and bits of the Kentucky Fried Movie takes it back decades.
My point when I was jibing your way is your outrage makes the problem of race and who can use “racial” language too black and white, so to speak. It’d be pretty to think that such language rules could be universally agreed upon, but that’s saying white people can’t write about black people and that’s just stupid, the sort whitewash simple thinking on race that gives political bubblegum like Crash best picture awards.
What you exploded over would be repulsive if culturally it wasn’t so typical.
Btw, what’s a deep whole? Ya dig?
February 16th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Impaler -
Where’s the blackface in Philebrity’s headline? Milton called Nutter a house nigger. He did.
From the article: “Milton actually used a racial slur to say former [sic] Nutter, who like Street is black, was not black enough.”
That is elegant persiflage for Milton calling someone a house nigger. Case closed.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Um, conorcoritgets blurry after that, as I wrote:
“While it‚Äôs likely Uncle Milt used ‚Äúhouse nigger‚Äù to describe Nutter as ‚Äúnot black enough‚Äù for Philadelphia Mayor, the Philebrity headline does hyperbolically exagerate the comment, implying none of the candidates are ‚Äúblack enough.‚Äù The ‚Äòtruth‚Äô is cleared up in the post‚Äôs quoted matter; but the Philebrity headline was a bit sensationalistically deceptive, as if Milt‚Äôs whole justification for candidacy is a racial tirade.”
Yes, there’s an insinuation that Evans too may be kowtowing to white power by leaving Harrisburg, but that comment lacks the contempt Street demonstrates for the atomic Obama Bomb he drops on Nutter by calling Nutter a house nigger. Fattah gets props and a plea to stay in D.C., probably because Street’s afraid of his federal connections, as if Fattah would exercise some pull in that fashion if he could.
So Philebrity’s exaggerating the easy inference its making from the spotty “blog interview” on the inky’s site. If Philebrity were a serious journalism outlet, he’d be crucified. It’s not, it’s a cheerleader and a lampoon, as you note, so it can be dismissed for its eye-rolling play for an edgy grab instead of suffer further persecution from Boring’s language policing.
For the record, Philebrity’s often quick to cop black voice, as are a lot of bloggers who address “culture”. It’s not really edgy or raw, just kinda juvenile silly, something both whites and blacks can laugh or roll their eyes at. YouknowwhatImsayin?
February 16th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Mr Boring, perhaps its just me, but I certainly don’t see how Philebrity is writing in the style of an “edgy black writer.” Philebrity does indeed have a white identity, but it comments on the socio-political developments of a multi-racial city. Plus, I certainly think there is a clear distinction between writing commentary for a blog/alt-weekly/newspaper and what said writer would use in conversation. I can’t think of one writer or journalist, that speaks the exact same way they write. Finally, Freeway certainly doesn’t represent the totality of black culture to me.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
ashy- why should there be a difference in the way you write and speak, if by difference, you are not talking about being articulate or poetic, but ATTEMPTING to sound like someone of a different race and culture? that is mockery plain and simple. i’m sure philebrity was thrilled to blast the blackface pimp and ho parties, yet it continues to use hip hop slang, even though its obvious the authors are as white as my computer screen.
impaler- i agree with most of what you just said except the part about Philebrity’s blackface being culturally typical. i guess it depends on the company you keep.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Boring, what sort of segregated white power company do you keep? Hip hop lingo is pervasive in popular culture. I mean I think even Martha Stewart has admitted to “feeling it” now and then. This isn’t plain and simple at all.
Think of it this way, when Ving Rhames banishes Bruce Willis from L.A. and talks about how he’s going to get a bunch of “pipe hitting motherfuckers” to go to town on their former torturer, that’s Quentin Tarrantino writing those lines. If you watch interviews with Tarrantino, he’s got a manic speech style that will riff off the black idiom. In a more vanilla way, Robin Williams does this too. Neither of those guys are unique instances of “language transgression.” Not sure what monastery you’re posting from, but “black talk” in “white culture” is pretty pervasive except for mainstream news outlets, legislative sessions, etc.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Is Joey a race traitor for typing this way? Is that what Boring’s getting at?
February 16th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
what i’m getting at, is that there is a difference between hip hop dialect intergrating into white society and some asshole “talking black” around white people. There is nothing wrong with someone being a product of their environment. I’ve taught in North Philly and, imo, it is socially acceptable for a ten year old white kid (who grows up amongst a majority of blacks) to say just about anything except the n word. Those kids are genuine. Philebrity is not. It is mockery and all their hip hop slang is inauthentic.
February 16th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Not sure if Joey knew this or not, but here’s a line from the Daily News career highlights of Milton Street (which is a fantastic read, by the way):
February 16th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
“Chris Rock can write a headline like the one above, but you guys can‚Äôt.”
isn’t telling someone what they can’t write or joke about sorta like the death of everything?
February 16th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Gon’ do it. What am I doing? I’m going to say that this discussion has gotten asinine by now, though good points have been made. Mr. Boring: Everyone except you seems to realize that Milton Street actually used racial epithets in the past and in the present. To report on such things is not cowardly or dishonest. Let it go. Everyone else: Mr. Boring keeps saying the same thing over and over again. Let him go.
Can we agree that Milton Street is a balls-to-the-wall nutjob who would do nothing more than continue the political crookedness of Philadelphia and leave it at that? Oh, and can we laugh at his antics in the process, via Philebrity or otherwise? Is this okay?
According to Milt the non-Stilt, Michael Nutter is not Black enough, Dwight Evans is not brave enough, and Bob Brady is not smart enough. I guess Uncle Milty has all of these traits and then some. A steady diet of McDonald’s and corruption will do that for you.
February 17th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Pahleez people.
You want to see some real racism, I’ll have Shirley Q. Liquor move to Philadelphia and run against Jannie Blackwell.
Milton and Shirley Q. are running the city! That’s right!
Oh my goodness. So where do I send Michael Nutter to so he can get “more black enough” praytell? After all, it’s not about crime, violence, high business taxes… no it’s about a mayor that needs to keep it real, and Nutter isn’t that man.
Maybe I can fit Nutter in some contact lenses and a State Property jacket ala Beanie and we can be rest assured our ward leaders will go for the right man for the job? Is that what it takes?
I don’t know what’s worse… our politician’s outlook on Philadelphians, or Philadelphians themselves.
February 18th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
This sounds like a city council meeting!