2aguy
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Interesting how the British are having a problem with their minority communities and violent crime too......and they are missing the point...it isn't Race that is the issue...it is the social welfare state that allows single teenage girls to have multiple children from multiple boyfriends without anyone becoming a father and raising the young males to be civilized young men....
The knife crime crisis is national. The solutions must be local | Gary Younge
Either way, this raises a series of important questions. To what extent, when it comes to knife crime, should we be having at least two conversations – one about the capital and one about elsewhere?
Given that only about 57% of the country’s black population lives in London, is there something about how race, class, crime and masculinity play out in London that makes black kids more vulnerable there than elsewhere?
And so long as what should be a national conversation focuses on race and culture, too few are talking about white youth at risk in the country as a whole or looking to learn from the rest of the UK.
This is not a London problem or a black problem, even if it is a problem in which London is disproportionately affected and black kids in London appear particularly vulnerable.
The knife crime crisis is national. The solutions must be local | Gary Younge
Either way, this raises a series of important questions. To what extent, when it comes to knife crime, should we be having at least two conversations – one about the capital and one about elsewhere?
Given that only about 57% of the country’s black population lives in London, is there something about how race, class, crime and masculinity play out in London that makes black kids more vulnerable there than elsewhere?
And so long as what should be a national conversation focuses on race and culture, too few are talking about white youth at risk in the country as a whole or looking to learn from the rest of the UK.
This is not a London problem or a black problem, even if it is a problem in which London is disproportionately affected and black kids in London appear particularly vulnerable.
