The reality of Violence
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:41 am
Racism or not, to me this spells out the reality of violence - and this kind of violence is a threat to everyone. Sometimes it's provoked, sometimes it isn't.. sometimes the media swoop on a violent tale, sometime they don't. Racism is a stick the politically correct use to beat people over the head - is a racist unprovoked brutal attack worse than a non-racist unprovoked attack? I think not...
Here in Hull a few months ago an apparantly very violent man met with a very violent death when a few blokes met him outside a pub on a sunday night, sprayed him with pepper spray, chased him a few yards down the street and then beat him to death with hammers, so frenzied was the attack that the man was unregonizable, every single bone in his head was mashed... If the man had been the same but black this undoubtedly would been made out to be a racist attack and pounced on by the national media.
My point is it's not racism that's the problem, it's violence in society that's the issue.... Because of the problems caused by people grumbling about muslim fundamentalists and immigration, playing the "look how bad racism is getting" card everytime something happens is attempting to play down any such grumbles.... An attack on a black person by a white will always be a racist attack regardless of the circumstances.
It doesn't make it right though, but you don't have to be part of an ethnic minority to live in fear of violence.
Here in Hull a few months ago an apparantly very violent man met with a very violent death when a few blokes met him outside a pub on a sunday night, sprayed him with pepper spray, chased him a few yards down the street and then beat him to death with hammers, so frenzied was the attack that the man was unregonizable, every single bone in his head was mashed... If the man had been the same but black this undoubtedly would been made out to be a racist attack and pounced on by the national media.
My point is it's not racism that's the problem, it's violence in society that's the issue.... Because of the problems caused by people grumbling about muslim fundamentalists and immigration, playing the "look how bad racism is getting" card everytime something happens is attempting to play down any such grumbles.... An attack on a black person by a white will always be a racist attack regardless of the circumstances.
It doesn't make it right though, but you don't have to be part of an ethnic minority to live in fear of violence.