Activist Julian Bond Visits Philadelphia with Plea for Ongoing Equality Effort

by KYW's Karin Phillips

Activist, author, commentator, and onetime politician Julian Bond was in Philadelphia on Thursday morning to talk about race in America, in a Black History Month event that was postponed by a storm last month.

The co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and former chairman of the NAACP talked to employees at a PNC Bank branch in the Eastwick section of Southwest Philadelphia. He says race relations are a lot better now than in the '60s, but there's still a lot to do:

"We're now asked to believe that 200 years of being somebody else's property, followed by 100 years of oppression in the South and discrimination in the North, can be wiped away by 4½ decades of halfhearted remediation and one presidential election. The truth is is that Jim Crow may be dead but racism is alive and well."

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