Well now.
Read the whole thread, have no idea what anybody is trying to say.
Except Witty, who's being funny.
Let's get this straight. Identifying something as 'black' is not racist; identifying something as 'black on black' is not racist. If it can be shown that the label is not helpful, then it will be abandoned.
It's like this thing with the prostitutes in Ipswich. Nobody objects if a headline reads 'schoolgirl murdered' or 'bank manager murdered' or 'caretaker arrested' - it's just a description. But for some reason the use of the word 'prostitute' sent some people into orbit. My opinion? They are the ones who have the problem; I'd be a bit stunned if someone told me she was a prostitute, but it wouldn't otherwise change my opinion of her as a person. I was a bit surprised to find out that Mariah Carey is black, but it didn't make me change my opinion that she's a crap singer.
We can't pretend that we are all the same, and good grief we shouldn't want to do so - we are a race of individuals, not a sort of spiritual porridge.
All those people who are surprised that a) the police and b) the politicians are scrambling to be seen to be doing something about a media scare story? · · · · I thought not.
My solution? Decriminalise drugs. It's the only way. Take away the profit motive, and the gang culture will fizzle out like last week's balloons. And, incidentally, not the slightest evidence that drug usage will increase, in the long term, over the current policy which makes some very, very unpleasant people unbelievably wealthy, perverts and twists the natural course of the lives of very poor children and subjects everyone else to levels of violent crime which are completely unnecessary.
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