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Stu Bykofsky went to that 10,000 men rally yesterday at the Liacouras Center, and the resulting column was pretty much what you’d expect from an old white man attending a rally of 10,000 black people: Complete and total awesomeness.
He first notes the rally lost about a third of the crowd around the time the Eagles game started. (It went from 2:40 to 5.) But the opening graf is pretty awesome, too:
THE USE of the Liacouras Center at Temple University, a seat of learning, was unintended symbolism for yesterday’s “10,000 Men: A Call to Action,” the black mobilization to take back the city’s toughest neighborhoods from killers, drug dealers, hustlers and pimps.
Pimps! Now there’s a job you don’t really see reported on in the news much. “Pimp kills 2,” perhaps the headlines would read. Hustlers, too; I kind of thought hustlers would encompass drug dealers and pimps, but maybe not. Maybe Byko lost a lot of money to a pool hustler and doesn’t want that to happen to somebody else.
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