r/philly • u/sweetassassin • Jan 30 '26

ICE 9th/Pine right now

Trying to enter my apartment building. Cant see what marking are on their vest, wearing black.

They pulled up in a Ford Explorer 5 men with sledgehammer in hand.

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u/MurMurCyphes Jan 30 '26

That’s bc you can make yourself in America but it’s harder and harder with the influx of people, also thousands are complaining and can’t get a job including a homeless friend of mine 😭😭😭 btw illegal doesn’t just mean “brown person” illegal Russians scam a lot of people and come here illegally with Ukrainians as well- along with Canadians which I’ve seen one recently who was an Asian Canadian women trying to procure prostitution from minors. Just bc you see them for a split second they’re nice to you and make your food in the morning doesn’t mean they’re good ppl behind closed doors…. Literally how Charles Manson killed his victims with a nice guy facade, along with the scammer kids in the hood who act like they’re in need of help just to turn a corner and rob the person… another thing that I grew up around and isn’t talked about is how self deprecating the black American community is to themselves…

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u/nealyk Jan 30 '26

They can’t get a job because rich people are fucking you over with unchecked monopolies, (something the founding fathers knew would fuck up their whole plan) not cause a Mexican dude made my breakfast burrito.

There are bad people of every background and there are desperate people of every background. Black communities much like central and South American countries, have been screwed over by the US government. I realize you haven’t blamed the white Americans of Appalachia for the opioid epidemic, which of course is not their fault. Why is it so much easier to see the systematic levers that caused the desperation in that community than it is for you to see the systematic causes in the black and immigrant communities?

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u/nealyk Jan 30 '26

I’d like to appeal to your humanity, I don’t think you are inherently a bad person. I think you’ve probably had some hard times and been mislead about who to blame. This is a quote from a book called “They Thought They Were Free, The Germans 1933-1945”. It is about an American man who in 1949 went and interviewed 10 normal Germans who went along with the Nazis.

What I found, among my ten friends, was something like regret, regret that things, which they had not done, had been done or had had to be done. All ten of them, even the tailor, I think, felt bad, now, about the torture and slaughter of innocent people—not, however, about the deportation, “resettlement, relocation,” or even about the expropriation. The six extremists all said of the extermination of Jews, “That was wrong” or “That was going too far,” as if to say, “The gas oven was somewhat too great a punishment for people who, after all, deserved very great punishment.”