Cause and effect ? , or we could go down the road of why . The simple fact is though young black Londoners are more prone to be the victim or villain when it comes to knife crime .
The problem for me it seems is one can not target the problem without being seen as targeting a minority group and being called out as racist etc .
We seem to be living in a world where targeting a minority on crime is worse than letting them kill eachother .
No, it is not a case of being unable to targeting a problem without being seen as racist or against a minority group.
It is whether you are targeting a symptom of a cause rather than the cause itself, and more importantly directly or indirectly laying blame or the implication of blame upon the symptom or those effected by it.
The prejudice, racism or lack thereof is in whether one chooses out of ignorance or an agenda to imply it is an issue caused BY or unique to people with a different or particular skin colour, rather than the conditions, environments and advantages/disadvantages of being one colour or another.
In very simple terms, is it a problem caused or exacerbated by Black people, or is it a problem disproportionately
faced by Black people.
There is NO question that poverty and a lack of educational support and development are directly corellated to an increase in knife crime/physical violence.
There should also be no question that Black people are vastly more likely to be in poverty and lacking educational support and development than the indigenous majority white population.
The question boils down to how you view or believe the following:
Are Black people more likely to be in poverty and lack educational support and development because of their genetics ?
or
Has systemic racism and prejudice created and perpetuated a situation where Black people are environmentally more likely to be in poverty and lack educational support and development because they aren't white ?
Is it a societal issue that we all contribute to regardless of race, gender and beliefs, or is it 'them' ?