Brain Trust: Has White-O-Ween Finally Died A Slow, Quiet Death In Philadelphia?
It’s usually right around this time of year when we start hearing of White-O-Ween, a shameful local tradition in which some subsection of Philly’s Noble White Prole populace deems an alternative Halloween in which white children can trick or treat in a (traditionally white) neighborhood, free of the fear that children of other races will show up early and hog all the candy. (For you recent transplants out there: Yes, this is/was a real thing. Charming, no?) What with Halloween preps underway in all quarters this week, we thought of White-O-Ween for the first time in a while, and went looking for evidence of it this year. And we found a curious thing: Nothing. Traditionally, some idiot will pipe up on a community messageboard, co-ordinating date and time for an all-white All Hallow’s Eve… but not this year, and as best we can tell, not even in Fairmount, which had long been among White-O-Ween’s most vocal and visible holdouts. So we’ll ask you: Any news of White-O-Ween in your neighborhood this year? We hope the answer is a definitive “no,” but hey: We have no expectations.
October 27th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
In a little more than 3 years, we will be celebrating white-o-ween at the White House
October 27th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
finally, definitive evidence that “jburnside” is a piece of hipster performance art.
October 27th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
re: In a little more than 3 years, we will be celebrating white-o-ween at the White House
@jburnside
Which do you prefer?
Version One
Version Two
October 27th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
looks like jburnside needs to work on his math: on Halloween “in a little more than 3 years…” Barack Obama will be finishing up his first term in office.
I think poor arithmetic skills are the least of his worries though.
October 27th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
There was trick or treating going on in Fairmount this past Saturday, post Halloween Parade.
October 27th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
yup, apparently it was unannounced/unofficial, but it still most definitely happened.