Sunday, August 07, 2011

The Tottenham riots were about race. Why ignore the fact?

What colour is Mark Duggan? Mark Duggan is the man who was shot dead by the police on Thursday in Tottenham. The Tottenham riots last night were sparked when people protested his death. This morning, I first heard of the riots on the radio, then on the television. I read articles on the internet. But oddly, no one would say what colour Mark Duggan was. No one would say the unsayable, that the rioters were, I suspect on the whole, black. Then, finally, Toby Young’s Telegraph blog post on the riots was published. Is Toby Young the only journalist out there who will dare say that these riots are about race?

Still, one paper did carry a photo of Mr Duggan. When I saw the photo, it confirmed what I knew instinctively: black youths once again have set London alight. More...

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2 comments:

  1. PAKI!!! soo the way you refer to the black community/people would you use the same undertones when talking about the Pakis, London bombings? immigrant people!

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  2. At first your article seemed fair But then your read it further and it was exceptionallly Biased!!1 BNP all the way. PAKI issues also an issues Not just black people!!! race is an issues not just for the Black people. gun and knife crime on All communities. You could had focused on arranged marriage, asain men in oldham having sex with young white girls But Oh no you decided to make emphasis on black on black so called violence - why ndon't you sniff your own backyard!!! Loser, fool.

    It's not a good situation But yoUR article doesn't really help with the situaiton AT ALL!!! leave d race issue aLOne and Focus on poor peoples sense of injustice and invisiblity!!..

    sad really that we're having another riot!!! its 2011!! very, very, very sad That should be the focus alone.

    BNP alone!!!

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