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This all is an indication 2020 is going to end much like it began, with tension between Mayor Jim Kenney and some mummers. It began with the mayor calling out members of Froggy Carr after at least two of its mummers were seen in blackface during the 2020 parade. Kenney called the incident abhorrent, disqualified the club from the parade s competition and threatened to pull the city support for the Mummers parade entirely.
Froggy Carr s leaders condemned the racist display and there were weeks meetings between mummers leadership and city officials.
Mayor Jim Kenney has tried for years (like every Philly Mayor in the past) to cancel the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, a tradition preceding the birth of our nation, organizers of the protest parade wrote on Facebook. The first city-sanctioned parade took place in 1901, but the custom of mummery can be traced back to some of the earliest settlers in the region.  ....

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