Today an independent "communities and victims panel" has launched its investigations in the causes of the August riots and to consider any lessons that can be learnt in order to stop a repeat of the violence, which blighted this country last month.
Those involved in the riots and their apologists will say the root cause behind the disturbances were unemployment, deprivation, police conduct or cuts in the public services etc. These same people would blame the moon, the stars, the deceased Queen Mother; anything as long as they never take any personal responsibility for the looting, robbing and burning that occurred.
There is no justification for this brutish behaviour. I really wish the rioters explain their actions to the people who lives they have ruined. The working class people of all races, colours and creeds who have had their businesses and homes burnt down by jeering mobs. Everything they have worked for gone in the night of unspeakable, stomach-churning violence. It takes intelligence and bravery to build and create something but it takes only a mindless fool to destroy something.
There is incontrovertible evidence that black criminal gangs were initially behind the violence and mayhem. Their excuse was the death of Mark Duggan a fellow gangster. I feel deeply sorry for us, the vast majority of law-abiding black people whose communities have been hi-jacked by these criminals, along with political extremists and apologists. Knife and gun crime is decimating the black community but nobody protests about the hundreds of black people who have died in the last ten years in London alone.
It rankles with me that we have rioters on television with their hoods up, faces covered, trying to explain their senseless actions. They talk of unemployment and precious few opportunities – but why would anybody want to employ these witless morons and what could they be employed for. These imbeciles believe they are entitled to everything materialistically but believe it should be handed to them on a golden plate without them ever getting out of from their duvet cover. They are the ‘golden elephants’ generation.
I nearly cried with frustration and incredulity when a liberal commentator compared the rioters to that of Egypt and Tunisia fighting for freedom. I saw no Egyptian or Tunisian looting their local Dixions or Footlocker for HD TVs and trainers.
We have a gang culture, which for many black boys has become the substitute family, where fathers play no role in their upbringing and black mothers no longer care. Education and hard work is despised and being illiterate is a badge of honour.
I sincerely hope when the ‘communities and victims panel’, finally make their recommendations, they take into consideration the truly decent working class people who were the real victims and not excuse the actions of the brain-dead hooligans.
Be in no doubt that these riots were an attack on the decent working class people of all races. The perpetrators who carried out this wanton vandalism should be punished to the full extent of the law. As working-class people we need to take back our communities from the gangsters, extremists and apologists.
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Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Monday, 8 August 2011
Extremists Hijacking the Black Community
I have heard many comments within the black community condoning this violence. One youth leader even commented that the disturbances were a cry for help from black youths. Utter and total garbage.
It is criminality pure and simple carried out by black gangs whose only thought is greed and avarice. How can you say the looting in Enfield and Brixton which occurred on Sunday night is to do with social deprivation – nonsense.
What we have are black leaders contributing to black anger, and poisoning the minds of young black people against authority. Leaders like Lee Jasper, Simon Woolley (head of Operation Black Vote) and others are trouble makers who get notoriety and media attention off their campaign of spreading lies and keeping young blacks in a constant state of anger by railing against the system and vilifying the police whenever they do their job if a black person happens to be involved in the crime that was committed.
They rail against a system that imprisons black people while at the same time they are creating the conditions that induces black people to turn to a life of crime. They are bloodsuckers feeding off the discontent they help create. Tell people they are being downtrodden enough times and they start believing it. Tell someone that successful people owe them a living enough times and they start believing it.
People are owed only the chance to pursue their dreams, but they are not owed a cradle to grave existence, as many seem to think. Those who are successful didn't become successful by roaming the streets burning up what others worked so hard to achieve.
The majority of those who organize these riots are gang members and drug dealers that are killing their own people. They keep young people in their neighbourhood in a constant state of anger and despair, which furnishes the gangs a ready supply of drug using customers.
It is criminality pure and simple carried out by black gangs whose only thought is greed and avarice. How can you say the looting in Enfield and Brixton which occurred on Sunday night is to do with social deprivation – nonsense.
What we have are black leaders contributing to black anger, and poisoning the minds of young black people against authority. Leaders like Lee Jasper, Simon Woolley (head of Operation Black Vote) and others are trouble makers who get notoriety and media attention off their campaign of spreading lies and keeping young blacks in a constant state of anger by railing against the system and vilifying the police whenever they do their job if a black person happens to be involved in the crime that was committed.
They rail against a system that imprisons black people while at the same time they are creating the conditions that induces black people to turn to a life of crime. They are bloodsuckers feeding off the discontent they help create. Tell people they are being downtrodden enough times and they start believing it. Tell someone that successful people owe them a living enough times and they start believing it.
People are owed only the chance to pursue their dreams, but they are not owed a cradle to grave existence, as many seem to think. Those who are successful didn't become successful by roaming the streets burning up what others worked so hard to achieve.
The majority of those who organize these riots are gang members and drug dealers that are killing their own people. They keep young people in their neighbourhood in a constant state of anger and despair, which furnishes the gangs a ready supply of drug using customers.
Sunday, 7 August 2011
NOTE: Saturday 6th August 2011 in Tottenham is when the decent law-abiding Black Community died replaced by extremism, drugs, crime and violence
It came as a surprise to many that the peaceful protest on Saturday evening would erupt in the worse disturbances since the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985.
The spark was the shooting dead by police of Mark Duggan on Thursday 4th August after an exchange of gunfire between the victim and police. What we know is that the man was carrying a gun and he shot at police, before the police returned fire.
Be in no doubt that the vast majority of black people in this country are sick and tired of gun and knife wielding gangsters destroying and terrorising our communities.
It might not of come to many people notice that in the early hours of Saturday morning another black man was gunned down in South London. A murder statistic to add to the numerous other fatalities of men, women and children in our community.
I find it inconceivable that any other section of society in this country would allow their brothers and sisters to murder one another in such numbers. However, the black community are strangely apathetic and indifferent to the high murder rate that we inflict amongst ourselves.
The only time that some of us become animated over a death is when we can attach our prejudices and grievances to an authority (like the police), as in the case of the police shooting of Mark Duggan. As I say most of the black community want the likes of Duggan and his ilk off our streets. But there is an extremist minority who ferment anger and disinformation to stir up certain sections of the community. They have hijacked our community for their own nefarious objectives to tear down our neighbourhoods through violence, mayhem and looting. And on Saturday 6th August 2011 they succeeded in their endeavours.
Be in no doubt this large-scale rioting was not spontaneous; it was planned with young people coming from all parts of London and beyond. What is so depressing is that we have a generation of youths who have grown up in dysfunctional families with no male role models. They move into gangs, rejecting the norms and values of society and who see crime, drugs and violence as the rule. These teenagers, some as young as seven, have become the foot soldiers of the extremists. Hence you saw gangs of black youths on Saturday night setting buildings on fire (not giving a damn if residents were still inside), looting and robbing without constraint until the early hours of the morning.
The extremists would say and have said that the unprecedented disturbances is a direct consequence of years of heavy handed policing within the area, and the shooting of Mark Duggan was the final straw. People have also alluded to the recent deaths in police custody i.e. David Emmanuel (aka Smiley Culture) as other factors, along with poverty, deprivation and unemployment.
This is all complete nonsense. Most people who rioted would not of known who Mark Duggan was. For many it was an opportunity in the dead of night to go on a destructive spree.
Extremists have stated that the behaviour of law enforcement is the root cause. Again this is not true. The police are not the issue here and never have been. The problems lay deep-rooted within the black community. It stems from the self-destruction of the traditional black family. Young men growing up without father figures alongside a growing and seemingly unstoppable gun and knife sub-culture. The traditional work ethic and education are rejected out of hand substituted with greed, instant materialism and obtaining these rewards at any cost either individually or in gangs. As yet the black community are unable or unwillingly to solve this devastating problem. The residents of Tottenham, as in most inner city areas of London live in complete fear of these feral youths.
The police are between a rock and a hard place. They are there to stop these gangs killing one another. But with the availability of guns and black people willing to use them indiscriminately, the incident that occurred last Thursday is inevitable. With so many young black people descending into drugs, crime and violence the future looks very bleak. In so many ways we have not moved on and in fact gone backwards since the disturbances of the early 1980s.
The Duggan case has gone to the IPCC for investigation. However the supporters of Mark Duggan would not accept any outcome other than the fact he was murdered in cold blood execution style by the police. The IPCC are in a no win situation.
What is another sorry disappointment is that many black leaders have simply acquiesced to the extremists within the community. These eminent spokespersons of various organisations talk in reverential terms about Mr Duggan as if was a respected pillar of the community instead of a thug who carried a gun.
There is no light at the end of the tunnel not even a flicker as I am afraid similar riots will occur again. The extremists know full well, all they need to do is to exploit a situation of a black death in police custody or a police shooting. They will use inflammatory language and disguise their protests as seeking justice for the victim. But all along their agenda are chaos, anarchy and making areas no go zones for police. When the burning, looting and robbing is over the extremists will have the effrontery to speak on behalf of the black community and say why everybody else, apart from them, was to blame for the widespread rioting.
In the aftermath the decent law-abiding black citizens have to pick up the pieces of their shattered communities, which took years to build and nurture, but only a night to destroy by gangs of marauding youths. The other negative fall out is that race relations between blacks and other races have deteriorated permanently. Other communities fear black people. When you have fear hate quickly follows. Black people have now become pariahs in this society.
We have a struggle on our hands as to the soul of the black community. As Saturday night clearly illustrated the fanatics have won and the honest, hard working Afro-Caribbean majority in this country have been cast adrift. Truly, the criminally insane have taken over the asylum.
RIP: Black Community – 6th August 2011
The spark was the shooting dead by police of Mark Duggan on Thursday 4th August after an exchange of gunfire between the victim and police. What we know is that the man was carrying a gun and he shot at police, before the police returned fire.
Be in no doubt that the vast majority of black people in this country are sick and tired of gun and knife wielding gangsters destroying and terrorising our communities.
It might not of come to many people notice that in the early hours of Saturday morning another black man was gunned down in South London. A murder statistic to add to the numerous other fatalities of men, women and children in our community.
I find it inconceivable that any other section of society in this country would allow their brothers and sisters to murder one another in such numbers. However, the black community are strangely apathetic and indifferent to the high murder rate that we inflict amongst ourselves.
The only time that some of us become animated over a death is when we can attach our prejudices and grievances to an authority (like the police), as in the case of the police shooting of Mark Duggan. As I say most of the black community want the likes of Duggan and his ilk off our streets. But there is an extremist minority who ferment anger and disinformation to stir up certain sections of the community. They have hijacked our community for their own nefarious objectives to tear down our neighbourhoods through violence, mayhem and looting. And on Saturday 6th August 2011 they succeeded in their endeavours.
Be in no doubt this large-scale rioting was not spontaneous; it was planned with young people coming from all parts of London and beyond. What is so depressing is that we have a generation of youths who have grown up in dysfunctional families with no male role models. They move into gangs, rejecting the norms and values of society and who see crime, drugs and violence as the rule. These teenagers, some as young as seven, have become the foot soldiers of the extremists. Hence you saw gangs of black youths on Saturday night setting buildings on fire (not giving a damn if residents were still inside), looting and robbing without constraint until the early hours of the morning.
The extremists would say and have said that the unprecedented disturbances is a direct consequence of years of heavy handed policing within the area, and the shooting of Mark Duggan was the final straw. People have also alluded to the recent deaths in police custody i.e. David Emmanuel (aka Smiley Culture) as other factors, along with poverty, deprivation and unemployment.
This is all complete nonsense. Most people who rioted would not of known who Mark Duggan was. For many it was an opportunity in the dead of night to go on a destructive spree.
Extremists have stated that the behaviour of law enforcement is the root cause. Again this is not true. The police are not the issue here and never have been. The problems lay deep-rooted within the black community. It stems from the self-destruction of the traditional black family. Young men growing up without father figures alongside a growing and seemingly unstoppable gun and knife sub-culture. The traditional work ethic and education are rejected out of hand substituted with greed, instant materialism and obtaining these rewards at any cost either individually or in gangs. As yet the black community are unable or unwillingly to solve this devastating problem. The residents of Tottenham, as in most inner city areas of London live in complete fear of these feral youths.
The police are between a rock and a hard place. They are there to stop these gangs killing one another. But with the availability of guns and black people willing to use them indiscriminately, the incident that occurred last Thursday is inevitable. With so many young black people descending into drugs, crime and violence the future looks very bleak. In so many ways we have not moved on and in fact gone backwards since the disturbances of the early 1980s.
The Duggan case has gone to the IPCC for investigation. However the supporters of Mark Duggan would not accept any outcome other than the fact he was murdered in cold blood execution style by the police. The IPCC are in a no win situation.
What is another sorry disappointment is that many black leaders have simply acquiesced to the extremists within the community. These eminent spokespersons of various organisations talk in reverential terms about Mr Duggan as if was a respected pillar of the community instead of a thug who carried a gun.
There is no light at the end of the tunnel not even a flicker as I am afraid similar riots will occur again. The extremists know full well, all they need to do is to exploit a situation of a black death in police custody or a police shooting. They will use inflammatory language and disguise their protests as seeking justice for the victim. But all along their agenda are chaos, anarchy and making areas no go zones for police. When the burning, looting and robbing is over the extremists will have the effrontery to speak on behalf of the black community and say why everybody else, apart from them, was to blame for the widespread rioting.
In the aftermath the decent law-abiding black citizens have to pick up the pieces of their shattered communities, which took years to build and nurture, but only a night to destroy by gangs of marauding youths. The other negative fall out is that race relations between blacks and other races have deteriorated permanently. Other communities fear black people. When you have fear hate quickly follows. Black people have now become pariahs in this society.
We have a struggle on our hands as to the soul of the black community. As Saturday night clearly illustrated the fanatics have won and the honest, hard working Afro-Caribbean majority in this country have been cast adrift. Truly, the criminally insane have taken over the asylum.
RIP: Black Community – 6th August 2011
Sunday, 17 April 2011
Black Community - Fighting The Wrong Enemy
The march that took place on Saturday 16 April to demonstrate against police deaths in custody illustrates the lack of self-awareness and insight of the Black community.
Thousands march on behalf of Smiley Culture and others who have died in questionable circumstances but tell me who is marching for the five-year-old girl who is critically ill in hospital after being shot by teenagers in Stockwell. For that matter who is protesting after another teenager - 15-year old Negus McLean was fatally stabbed in Edmonton - the fifth black teenage murder victim in London this year. In this same period we have had the conviction of two men for the machine gun murder of 16-year old Agnes Sina-Inakoju in a Hoxton takeaway last April. Who is crying for her?
There should be a million-man march demonstrating against crime, drugs and violence, which is tearing the Black community apart. However, it seems that apart from the above victims' families we as a community don't give a damn or we choose to look the other way.
It is so much simpler and straightforward to blame the police and other state institutions for the lack of progress we as a community have made in comparison to other ethnic communities over the last 30 years.
In reality the biggest obstacle to our advancement and perceived oppression has never been the police or other agencies but OURSELVES and always has been. At the very heart of our failure in my contention has been the breakdown of the family - black boys being raised in homes where education, hard work and morality are frowned upon. Instead immediate gratification and rampant materialism is everything and obtaining it by any means necessary is seen as the norm. It is no wonder that we have so many young black children being shot or stabbed on an almost daily basis and the black parents of these children don't seem to care and the black community as a whole is totally apathetic.
It's easy to rage and vent your anger against the 'system' and blame it for all our ills. However, when it comes to analysing for instance black gang violence, we are afraid to take responsibility for an issue, which is completely of our own making.
Rest assured I support the deaths in custody march and would like to see a full and thorough independent investigation. But be in no doubt the biggest problem facing the black community is the feral youths who have no qualms in spraying gun fire in public places, and their parents who ignore or condone their actions.
If we do not take full responsibility and combat this malevolent cancer then the consequence is that the black community will be feared, ostracised and hated by all sections of society and we would only have ourselves to blame. Unfortunately, I see no evidence of parents wishing to take responsibility of stopping their children turning to gangs and equally I have witness no proof of the wider black community taking this issue seriously. I fear for the future.
Thousands march on behalf of Smiley Culture and others who have died in questionable circumstances but tell me who is marching for the five-year-old girl who is critically ill in hospital after being shot by teenagers in Stockwell. For that matter who is protesting after another teenager - 15-year old Negus McLean was fatally stabbed in Edmonton - the fifth black teenage murder victim in London this year. In this same period we have had the conviction of two men for the machine gun murder of 16-year old Agnes Sina-Inakoju in a Hoxton takeaway last April. Who is crying for her?
There should be a million-man march demonstrating against crime, drugs and violence, which is tearing the Black community apart. However, it seems that apart from the above victims' families we as a community don't give a damn or we choose to look the other way.
It is so much simpler and straightforward to blame the police and other state institutions for the lack of progress we as a community have made in comparison to other ethnic communities over the last 30 years.
In reality the biggest obstacle to our advancement and perceived oppression has never been the police or other agencies but OURSELVES and always has been. At the very heart of our failure in my contention has been the breakdown of the family - black boys being raised in homes where education, hard work and morality are frowned upon. Instead immediate gratification and rampant materialism is everything and obtaining it by any means necessary is seen as the norm. It is no wonder that we have so many young black children being shot or stabbed on an almost daily basis and the black parents of these children don't seem to care and the black community as a whole is totally apathetic.
It's easy to rage and vent your anger against the 'system' and blame it for all our ills. However, when it comes to analysing for instance black gang violence, we are afraid to take responsibility for an issue, which is completely of our own making.
Rest assured I support the deaths in custody march and would like to see a full and thorough independent investigation. But be in no doubt the biggest problem facing the black community is the feral youths who have no qualms in spraying gun fire in public places, and their parents who ignore or condone their actions.
If we do not take full responsibility and combat this malevolent cancer then the consequence is that the black community will be feared, ostracised and hated by all sections of society and we would only have ourselves to blame. Unfortunately, I see no evidence of parents wishing to take responsibility of stopping their children turning to gangs and equally I have witness no proof of the wider black community taking this issue seriously. I fear for the future.
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Black Community - Self Destruction
I was utterly depressed when I read about the shooting incident which occurred on the night of the 29 March in Stockwell, where an innocent man and a young girl were seriously injured.
To have young black boys not only having access to guns but also willing to use them in such an indiscriminate manner is beyond belief. What goes through these boys' minds God only knows? The sad fact is that this is not an isolated incident and these outrages will continue. For me the obvious question is where are the parents of these boys in all this.
Most of these incidents in London and other inner cities across the country, the common denominator are that the victims and perpetrators are young and black. However, in this situation two innocent bystanders were caught in the crossfire. Over the years many initiatives and much government expenditure has been ploughed in trying to turn the tide of violence plighting the black community. But yet black-on-black crime spreads like an incurable cancer.
As this crisis deepens, black leaders have put the responsibility on teachers, blamed it on racism, unemployment and even slavery. However few if any never approach the heart of the matter. A stable nurturing family can help a black child beat all those obstacles and come out a decent and responsible member of society.
It is time (30 years too late in my opinion) for black people to look at their parenting skills. If black families and communities do not take as their responsibility to help keep black boys from getting astray, it makes it frankly impossible for the rest of the wider society, from law enforcement agencies to business to government to help.
Too many black "baby fathers" make children as trophies and do nothing to raise them or show them decent masculinity. There are black mothers who are also violent and hopeless and do little to stop their sons (and sometimes daughters) being drawn into the pervasive black sub-culture of drugs, rap and violent crime.
The government needs to get tougher on the failing black parents of criminal children and force them to attend classes. Black children are vastly over-represented in penal institutions and foster care. Black families must bite the bullet and start taking responsibility for their children and not blame society for the truly chaotic situation that they have themselves created. It is only when black parents, along with black community leaders, black politicians and the wider black community realise this, and only then will this tragic descent into complete self-destruction be halted. The culture of non-responsibility and self-denial among Afro-Caribbean people needs to stop or else black people will become pariahs in society; feared and hated by all.
To have young black boys not only having access to guns but also willing to use them in such an indiscriminate manner is beyond belief. What goes through these boys' minds God only knows? The sad fact is that this is not an isolated incident and these outrages will continue. For me the obvious question is where are the parents of these boys in all this.
Most of these incidents in London and other inner cities across the country, the common denominator are that the victims and perpetrators are young and black. However, in this situation two innocent bystanders were caught in the crossfire. Over the years many initiatives and much government expenditure has been ploughed in trying to turn the tide of violence plighting the black community. But yet black-on-black crime spreads like an incurable cancer.
As this crisis deepens, black leaders have put the responsibility on teachers, blamed it on racism, unemployment and even slavery. However few if any never approach the heart of the matter. A stable nurturing family can help a black child beat all those obstacles and come out a decent and responsible member of society.
It is time (30 years too late in my opinion) for black people to look at their parenting skills. If black families and communities do not take as their responsibility to help keep black boys from getting astray, it makes it frankly impossible for the rest of the wider society, from law enforcement agencies to business to government to help.
Too many black "baby fathers" make children as trophies and do nothing to raise them or show them decent masculinity. There are black mothers who are also violent and hopeless and do little to stop their sons (and sometimes daughters) being drawn into the pervasive black sub-culture of drugs, rap and violent crime.
The government needs to get tougher on the failing black parents of criminal children and force them to attend classes. Black children are vastly over-represented in penal institutions and foster care. Black families must bite the bullet and start taking responsibility for their children and not blame society for the truly chaotic situation that they have themselves created. It is only when black parents, along with black community leaders, black politicians and the wider black community realise this, and only then will this tragic descent into complete self-destruction be halted. The culture of non-responsibility and self-denial among Afro-Caribbean people needs to stop or else black people will become pariahs in society; feared and hated by all.
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Black Denial Black Responsibility - Smiley Culture a Case in Point
I was saddened to read about the death of Smiley Culture - real name David Emmanuel. However, it seems obvious to me that people behind this drive for a separate independent investigation into the death of Smiley Culture have their own political agendas.
The likes of Mike Franklin and Lee Jasper who are taking the lead in wanting a dual inquiry, I believe are exploiting the singer's death for their own reasons and it has very little to do in getting behind the real cause behind Smiley Culture's demise.
Its is plain that the likes of Franklin and Jasper have already made up their minds irrespective of what The Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation may bring up. They want to believe the artist was murdered by police officers and feed this message to the Black community, in order to stir elements within the community for direct action towards the police. Lee Jasper has previous form for this.
Franklin and Jasper's motives are quite simple - to achieve political power and kudos not only within the Black community but wider society as well. They are the people that governments would go to with lucrative contracts to speak on behalf of Black people. One thing is for certain is that they and their ilk don't speak for me and for millions of other Afro-Caribbean people making a honest living in this country.
Unfortunately, we are a community who are willing to indulge them and embrace their message. If as black people we were so concerned about violent black deaths we would only have to look internally and see young men and women being stabbed and shot on an almost daily basis on our very streets. But this would mean examining ourselves, taking accountability - cease the culture of denial - but we are not ready to take responsibility for any of our actions. When we realise that we have to stop seeing ourselves as victims and not blaming society for all our ills is then and only then we can progress and prosper.
I wish as many people turned up at Brixton Town Hall in an animated fashion every time a black teenager lays dieing on a London pavement as a result of a gunshot or stab wound. But this would never happen as someone may tell the unpalatable truth that we have only ourselves to blame for this carnage happening in our own community.
It is so much easier and simpler to look at the death of David Emmanuel and have our so called community leaders lead our moral indignation in order to seek the 'truth' surrounding Emmanuel's death. In reality this is not about the truth and never will be. Its about victim hood and searching for scapegoats to blame. We have been doing this for the last 40 years - whether its education, crime, jobs or mental illness - someone has to be answerable. God forbid that we take an introspective examination of ourselves.
By the way at the time Emmanuel's arrest he was on bail for conspiracy to supply cocaine. This will be lost when he is feted as a hero in the Black community in the same light as Nelson Mandela - madness indeed.
The likes of Mike Franklin and Lee Jasper who are taking the lead in wanting a dual inquiry, I believe are exploiting the singer's death for their own reasons and it has very little to do in getting behind the real cause behind Smiley Culture's demise.
Its is plain that the likes of Franklin and Jasper have already made up their minds irrespective of what The Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation may bring up. They want to believe the artist was murdered by police officers and feed this message to the Black community, in order to stir elements within the community for direct action towards the police. Lee Jasper has previous form for this.
Franklin and Jasper's motives are quite simple - to achieve political power and kudos not only within the Black community but wider society as well. They are the people that governments would go to with lucrative contracts to speak on behalf of Black people. One thing is for certain is that they and their ilk don't speak for me and for millions of other Afro-Caribbean people making a honest living in this country.
Unfortunately, we are a community who are willing to indulge them and embrace their message. If as black people we were so concerned about violent black deaths we would only have to look internally and see young men and women being stabbed and shot on an almost daily basis on our very streets. But this would mean examining ourselves, taking accountability - cease the culture of denial - but we are not ready to take responsibility for any of our actions. When we realise that we have to stop seeing ourselves as victims and not blaming society for all our ills is then and only then we can progress and prosper.
I wish as many people turned up at Brixton Town Hall in an animated fashion every time a black teenager lays dieing on a London pavement as a result of a gunshot or stab wound. But this would never happen as someone may tell the unpalatable truth that we have only ourselves to blame for this carnage happening in our own community.
It is so much easier and simpler to look at the death of David Emmanuel and have our so called community leaders lead our moral indignation in order to seek the 'truth' surrounding Emmanuel's death. In reality this is not about the truth and never will be. Its about victim hood and searching for scapegoats to blame. We have been doing this for the last 40 years - whether its education, crime, jobs or mental illness - someone has to be answerable. God forbid that we take an introspective examination of ourselves.
By the way at the time Emmanuel's arrest he was on bail for conspiracy to supply cocaine. This will be lost when he is feted as a hero in the Black community in the same light as Nelson Mandela - madness indeed.
Sunday, 29 August 2010
Father loses his position as head of Black British Family
THE COLLAPSE of the British Black Family is undoubtedly, in my opinion, the cause of all the social ills facing the Afro-Caribbean community. Regrettably, this malaise has deepened over the last 20 years with no prospect of improving in the future.
More than half of black children are now born out of wedlock and this statistic will increase during the next decade. In this period poverty, crime, health and disadvantage linked with family collapse have marched side by side with one another.
The trend away from traditional child-rearing patterns in Europe has increased since the 1980s. But there is a world of difference between illegitimacy in the suburbs of Stockholm and Paris compared to the urban working class areas where Black Britons reside. In many European countries there is a blurring of the distinction between cohabitation and marriage, whilst in Britain, and particularly among Afro-Caribbeans, it is more closely tied to being brought up in a single parent family, and the consequent continuing poverty and disadvantage.
Black children growing up without fathers face severe social consequences. Over 50% of all Black people living in poverty are single mothers and their children. Two-thirds of these black children who have no genuine relationship or contact with their father later become dependent on welfare at some point in their lives. Illegitimacy, viewed as an aberration within the black community in the first wave of mass immigration to Britain in the 1950s, has now become the norm.
I think the high black unemployment rate has reduced the pool of marriageable black men. Black single mothers are much more likely to bring up their children with the help of grandmothers and other female relatives. Black fathers escape lightly with very few helping out financially, let alone giving emotional support or acting as a decent role model for their off-spring.
I would argue that a contributing factor regarding the decline of the British black family is welfare benefits. Undeniably, welfare has replaced the black father. One suggestion to overcome welfare dependency is that black mothers who refuse to identify feckless fathers have sanctions imposed regards to welfare handouts.
I would also add that we need more financial support for black two-parent families. One-parent family should not be seen as an alternative as all the evidence shows that black families without fathers is not only bad for children (especially boys) but society in general.
More than half of black children are now born out of wedlock and this statistic will increase during the next decade. In this period poverty, crime, health and disadvantage linked with family collapse have marched side by side with one another.
The trend away from traditional child-rearing patterns in Europe has increased since the 1980s. But there is a world of difference between illegitimacy in the suburbs of Stockholm and Paris compared to the urban working class areas where Black Britons reside. In many European countries there is a blurring of the distinction between cohabitation and marriage, whilst in Britain, and particularly among Afro-Caribbeans, it is more closely tied to being brought up in a single parent family, and the consequent continuing poverty and disadvantage.
Black children growing up without fathers face severe social consequences. Over 50% of all Black people living in poverty are single mothers and their children. Two-thirds of these black children who have no genuine relationship or contact with their father later become dependent on welfare at some point in their lives. Illegitimacy, viewed as an aberration within the black community in the first wave of mass immigration to Britain in the 1950s, has now become the norm.
I think the high black unemployment rate has reduced the pool of marriageable black men. Black single mothers are much more likely to bring up their children with the help of grandmothers and other female relatives. Black fathers escape lightly with very few helping out financially, let alone giving emotional support or acting as a decent role model for their off-spring.
I would argue that a contributing factor regarding the decline of the British black family is welfare benefits. Undeniably, welfare has replaced the black father. One suggestion to overcome welfare dependency is that black mothers who refuse to identify feckless fathers have sanctions imposed regards to welfare handouts.
I would also add that we need more financial support for black two-parent families. One-parent family should not be seen as an alternative as all the evidence shows that black families without fathers is not only bad for children (especially boys) but society in general.
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