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Church Street

There’s something I don’t get about Mayor Street. Have you ever seen him speaking in a neighborhood church? He’s animated. His voice rises and falls. He moves his hands. He looks and sounds alive. He’s captivating and he demands your attention.

Have you ever seen him on TV in front of a mass audience? Did you see him last night? He looked like a zombie. He sounded like he was giving the speech from some remote location through the body of man who had just died. Through vague electrical stimulation and a wooden speaker lodged in the back of the throat, someone with a remote control was barely able to mimic the behavior of a living, breathing human being. That’s speech to the media Street. I hate that mayor Street.

Where’s church Street? Why doesn’t he ever speak to the city like he speaks to some local congregation? The best he can do for a mass audience is raise his voice slightly in a half-assed attempt to sound excited. Can you hear it? Each word and even syllable with an awkward pause in-between: “Yeah, are, you, excited, Phil,adelph,ia!?”

I wish church Street would talk to Philadelphia… Especially when he’s talking about something as serious as the slow burning war that covers large swaths of our city.