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[i_kender]

Oh look! Yet anothet reason why Tony Blair is an idiot:

It's not poverty that leads to gun culture, it's black people

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[lisekit.livejournal.com]

Guns don't kill people, black people do!

[i_kender]

I thought that was rabbits?

Respect

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

[confused] If it's black culture that's to blame will black people have to be put in intervention centres until they're paler?

Re: Respect

[nightxade.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty pale already. I could pass for white on a winter day. Please don't lock me up! Unless, of course, there is fried chicken and water melon there...

Re: Respect

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

Well, in that case you may qualify for Level One of the Intervention Programme, where someone visits you in your home and helps you on the road towards being more snowy. You could then supply your own water melon. However, I think Fried Chicken may be part of the Dangerous Culture that is causing Shocking Deaths, and it will have to be Stamped On because of Respect.

[nightxade.livejournal.com]

Initial reaction: lkjaldfjalkjdfaoijfdlakj!!!!!!!!! (see icon)

Rational reaction: I agree with this statement: "He said people had to drop their political correctness and recognise that the violence would not be stopped "by pretending it is not young black kids doing it"."

HOWEVER, read on and it's pretty clear that he went down there wearing horse blinders, heard one comment from the pastor that spoke to his personal bias, and then road it back to his high class white mansion.

Yes, the violence is generally black gang members, but is Blair considering anything other than that? I'd check off the big "NO" box on that one.

We are dealing with the same situation here, mainly in the Scarborough area. No one is dumb enough not to see the cultural connection, but we have gone further and actually tried to deal with exactly that. A lot of the gang issues have been traced back to Jamaican gang roots, so our police chief and mayor have actually worked with the Jamaican authorities, visiting the country etc. Basically, we recognize the problem and are targeting the source and offering options that work with the culture.

[i_kender]

I think for a leading politician, nevermind the leading politician in his country, to come out with these kind of remarks is ill-advised, ill-considered and dumb to say the very least. Clearly his PR person is on holiday. And that's me being kind.