The truth is, violent white-on-black crime is a rarity in Britain, by
comparison – although white-on-Asian crime is rather less so. The
overwhelming bulk of violent street crime in London is committed by young
black men, and in numerous cases against white people, although one would
not impute a racial motive; the statistics suggest that young black male
criminals are quite happy to stab or shoot anybody who hoves into view with
either a bulging wallet, a mobile phone or an assumed reflection of
disrespec’ in their eyes.
Apologies if this offends – but that’s how it is. At most, the African
Caribbean population of London is about 12% of the whole. But black males
are responsible for nearly 60% of arrests for robbery – and the overwhelming
majority of gun crime, most of it black-on-black violence.
We skirt this issue, mostly for decent, if deluding reasons – that a
proportion of young black males is more likely to commit violent crime than
other sectors of the population. It is a form of racism, though, to assume
that the problem is simply a given, and unalterable – but we have been
hamstrung in our attempts to deal with it for reasons of political
correctness.
The propensity of some young black males to underachieve at school and later
commit crimes of violence has been seen for too long as a roguish expression
of cultural diversity, exacerbated by our own inherent racism and economic
oppression; in other words, it’s not their fault. Indeed the culture of
violence, misogyny and epic drug abuse, exemplified in rap music, has been
lapped up by a bovine liberal white culture that finds the vibrancy and
“edginess” of gangsta rap something in which we should all exult and indeed
emulate.


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