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Baby 2 Gunshot To Head In Coma
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Bearing in mind the location of this atrocity (Black and Irish community) and the fact that it is an Operation Trident investigation (Black on Black shooting) I hope the arresting officer will be of ethnic origin. For the sake of justice!!.
But where are BLM in this matter. This family had already lost a family member by shooting.
Does BLM ignore the killing of Black people if the perpetrator is one of their own?
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This is a thought-provoking piece too. Even better written than my first link.
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This is a thought-provoking piece too. Even better written than my first link.
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A Black person engaging in criminal activity has naught to do with the colour of their skin but much more to do with poor education, inadequate housing, and lack of hope for the future among other circumstances that they find themselves in. Most people are defined by their circumstances. Only a few defy and transcend them.
How we frame these conversations around criminality and Black people impact attitudes and influences actions.
Toronto Mayor John Tory’s comments calling criminals who happen to be Black “anti-social sewer rats” may come across as justifiable anger to some but given the context of sweeping anti-Blackness in society, it only serves to fuel simmering, racist hostilities.
//In the absence of thoughtful leadership, what we, as individuals, need more than ever are insightful and compassionate perspectives that begin within viewing Black people as humans first.//
I agree with the last sentence.
" anti-social sewer rats" No way.
//A Black person engaging in criminal activity has naught to do with the colour of their skin but much more to do with poor education, inadequate housing, and lack of hope for the future among other circumstances that they find themselves in//
Much of that I do not agree with. The same old chestnut about poverty, lack of education etc etc. These,imo, are excuses for their own downfall.
Black kids have the same educational openings available to them as white kids. It depends if they have the same inclination or motivation to use them.
Poverty. It has been worthy of comment by Barak Obama and David Cameron that their are too many black single parent families where the mother has been abandoned by the father of the children to sew his seed elsewhere. More children and less income coming in the house creates poverty. No role model from an absent father.
Tfl is pretty much run by members of the ethnic community.LT Underground drivers earn more p.a. than a Police Inspector and bus drivers are also well paid. There are jobs available if the motivation exists to do them.
Inadequate housing.No one is forced to live in a ghetto just because they are around their own community and refuse to integrate with others elsewhere.
After Grenfell we had cases whereby residents were still living in temporary hotel accommodation and complaining they had not been prioritised for replacement housing. I saw,on the TV News two flats that were offered to an ethnic family in Kensington that were palaces and most people would give their eye teeth for. They refused them because they wanted to go back to a tower block, hopefully, with their old neighbours that survived. You couldn't make it up.
In my summary. I agree a couple of points made in a Canadian paper article. I do not agree with the justifications to excuse the criminality.
I am amused that this article appears in a Barrie,Ontario Newspaper.
I know the place very well on one side of Lake Simcoe. My niece lives there with her children. I haven't noticed many ethnic community members there on my visits.
You will have to excuse my absence. Hospital apt at 1530. Later.
A Black person engaging in criminal activity has naught to do with the colour of their skin but much more to do with poor education, inadequate housing, and lack of hope for the future among other circumstances that they find themselves in. Most people are defined by their circumstances. Only a few defy and transcend them.
How we frame these conversations around criminality and Black people impact attitudes and influences actions.
Toronto Mayor John Tory’s comments calling criminals who happen to be Black “anti-social sewer rats” may come across as justifiable anger to some but given the context of sweeping anti-Blackness in society, it only serves to fuel simmering, racist hostilities.
//In the absence of thoughtful leadership, what we, as individuals, need more than ever are insightful and compassionate perspectives that begin within viewing Black people as humans first.//
I agree with the last sentence.
" anti-social sewer rats" No way.
//A Black person engaging in criminal activity has naught to do with the colour of their skin but much more to do with poor education, inadequate housing, and lack of hope for the future among other circumstances that they find themselves in//
Much of that I do not agree with. The same old chestnut about poverty, lack of education etc etc. These,imo, are excuses for their own downfall.
Black kids have the same educational openings available to them as white kids. It depends if they have the same inclination or motivation to use them.
Poverty. It has been worthy of comment by Barak Obama and David Cameron that their are too many black single parent families where the mother has been abandoned by the father of the children to sew his seed elsewhere. More children and less income coming in the house creates poverty. No role model from an absent father.
Tfl is pretty much run by members of the ethnic community.LT Underground drivers earn more p.a. than a Police Inspector and bus drivers are also well paid. There are jobs available if the motivation exists to do them.
Inadequate housing.No one is forced to live in a ghetto just because they are around their own community and refuse to integrate with others elsewhere.
After Grenfell we had cases whereby residents were still living in temporary hotel accommodation and complaining they had not been prioritised for replacement housing. I saw,on the TV News two flats that were offered to an ethnic family in Kensington that were palaces and most people would give their eye teeth for. They refused them because they wanted to go back to a tower block, hopefully, with their old neighbours that survived. You couldn't make it up.
In my summary. I agree a couple of points made in a Canadian paper article. I do not agree with the justifications to excuse the criminality.
I am amused that this article appears in a Barrie,Ontario Newspaper.
I know the place very well on one side of Lake Simcoe. My niece lives there with her children. I haven't noticed many ethnic community members there on my visits.
You will have to excuse my absence. Hospital apt at 1530. Later.
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An old link but still stands today
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An old link but still stands today
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retrocop - // … if the perpetrator is one of their own? //
I guess that's a broad hint at your tendency towards placing people in neat categories - 'one of their own' I assume means another black person?
As an ex-policeman, I am sure you have come across many examples of violence perpetrated by one ethnicity on another, and realised that such categorising really doesn't help in attributing responsibility.
Deciding the goodness, or badness, of any stranger, based on the colour of their skin is not really a good idea.
In fact, there is a word for people who think like that …
Just an observation.
I guess that's a broad hint at your tendency towards placing people in neat categories - 'one of their own' I assume means another black person?
As an ex-policeman, I am sure you have come across many examples of violence perpetrated by one ethnicity on another, and realised that such categorising really doesn't help in attributing responsibility.
Deciding the goodness, or badness, of any stranger, based on the colour of their skin is not really a good idea.
In fact, there is a word for people who think like that …
Just an observation.
//As an ex-policeman, I am sure you have come across many examples of violence perpetrated by one ethnicity on another, and realised that such categorising really doesn't help in attributing responsibility.//
It is patently obvious that there are many in the ethnic community who are totally incapable of accepting responsibility for their own actions within the community. Instead they use the blame game.
They have,for a good few years, complained about stop and search and unfair profiling by police. The police dropped the sus law (Vagrancy Act) and eased back and were almost forbidden to use stop/search. Roll on a few years and gang warfare and black on black stabbings, drug running on county lines runs rife .
Police get the blame by sobbing mothers on the TV for not doing enough to prevent the deaths of their children. It is the blame game again and they have to face the consequences of their own culture.
Stop and search is an attempt to get knives and drugs off the street with the hope it might save lives. We can try and educate these people but we can't make them understand their own shortcomings.
If you read the link I provided you might see that four black mothers admit where there community is going wrong. At least they are being honest and not defending the indefensible.
It is patently obvious that there are many in the ethnic community who are totally incapable of accepting responsibility for their own actions within the community. Instead they use the blame game.
They have,for a good few years, complained about stop and search and unfair profiling by police. The police dropped the sus law (Vagrancy Act) and eased back and were almost forbidden to use stop/search. Roll on a few years and gang warfare and black on black stabbings, drug running on county lines runs rife .
Police get the blame by sobbing mothers on the TV for not doing enough to prevent the deaths of their children. It is the blame game again and they have to face the consequences of their own culture.
Stop and search is an attempt to get knives and drugs off the street with the hope it might save lives. We can try and educate these people but we can't make them understand their own shortcomings.
If you read the link I provided you might see that four black mothers admit where there community is going wrong. At least they are being honest and not defending the indefensible.
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