RACK Tony Blair

[OCmike]

Blair blames spate of murders on black culture

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Tony Blair yesterday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture. His remarks angered community leaders, who accused him of ignorance and failing to provide support for black-led efforts to tackle the problem.
One accused him of misunderstanding the advice he had been given on the issue at a Downing Street summit.

Black community leaders reacted after Mr Blair said the recent violence should not be treated as part of a general crime wave, but as specific to black youth. He said people had to drop their political correctness and recognise that the violence would not be stopped "by pretending it is not young black kids doing it".

Mr Blair said he had been moved to make his controversial remarks after speaking to a black pastor of a London church at a Downing Street knife crime summit, who said: "When are we going to start saying this is a problem amongst a section of the black community and not, for reasons of political correctness, pretend that this is nothing to do with it?" Mr Blair said there needed to be an "intense police focus" on the minority of young black Britons behind the gun and knife attacks. The laws on knife and gun gangs needed to be toughened and the ringleaders "taken out of circulation".

..."I think that is to do with the fact that particular youngsters are being brought up in a setting that has no rules, no discipline, no proper framework around them."

Mr Blair is known to believe the tendency for many black boys to be raised in families without a father leads to a lack of appropriate role models.

He said: "We need to stop thinking of this as a society that has gone wrong - it has not - but of specific groups that for specific reasons have gone outside of the proper lines of respect and good conduct towards others and need by specific measures to be brought back into the fold."

The Commission for Racial Equality broadly backed Mr Blair, saying people "shouldn't be afraid to talk about this issue for fear of sounding prejudiced".

Mr Blair spoke out as a second teenager was due to appear in court charged with the murder of 14-year-old Paul Erhahon, stabbed to death in east London on Friday. He was the seventh Londoner under 16 to be murdered since the end of January, and his 15-year-old friend, who was also stabbed, remains in hospital.

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It's about time that a politician with some stature had the cajones to stand up and speak the truth. No, not the mvscal "truth" that blacks are genetically predisposed to crime, but that certain aspects of their society and culture are leading a disproportionate number of them down the path of evil by glorifying murder, rape, drug-dealing, car-jacking and other crimes.

It's just too bad that we can't get someone on this side of the pond to say the same thing.

[PSUFAN]

It's just too bad that we can't get someone on this side of the pond to say the same thing.

Bill Cosby isn't good enough for you?

[Imus]

I'm telling you it's all over the world.





















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Hey Sharpton, say you're sorry

[OCmike]

It's just too bad that we can't get someone on this side of the pond to say the same thing.

Bill Cosby isn't good enough for you?

I'd prefer the President, to the pimp for pudding pops.

[The Seer]

We're on our way...and boy, are we mad.

[Invictus]

No, not the mvscal "truth" that blacks are genetically predisposed to crime,.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that ni...ggers all over the world act like violent, subhuman freaks.

Hopefully they will exterminate themselves before we have to step in and do it for them.

We? You mean mexicans? Shoot, you guys are too busy trying to climb border fences, circumvent the immigration process, steal benefits from good, hard working Americans, holding tourists hostage, raping nuns and other women at border towns, and tending to lawns to worry about a race of murderous Dr. Detroits.

[OCmike]

No, not the mvscal "truth" that blacks are genetically predisposed to crime,.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that ni...ggers all over the world act like violent, subhuman freaks.

Hopefully they will exterminate themselves before we have to step in and do it for them.

We? You mean mexicans? Shoot, you guys are too busy trying to climb border fences, circumvent the immigration process, steal benefits from good, hard working Americans, holding tourists hostage, raping nuns and other women at border towns, and tending to lawns to worry about a race of murderous Dr. Detroits.

Much of what you say is true, but if Katrina had struck a Mexican town, those people would have evacuated or taken care of themselves, as opposed to just sitting there waiting to be rescued, demanding handouts and claiming that whitey had caused the storm and/or levee to burst.

Mvscal, if we're talking about the most violent, bloodthirsty race in history, my nod goes to the 19th-20th century Japanese. And no one else even comes close. Those fuckers were ruthless.

[indyfrisco]

Much of what you say is true, but if Katrina had struck a Mexican town, those people would have evacuated or taken care of themselves, as opposed to just sitting there waiting to be rescued, demanding handouts and claiming that whitey had caused the storm and/or levee to burst.

At the very least, you know the Mexicans would have already built all the houses back up cuz they're good at that and stuff.

[Nishlord]

Nice to see that a small collective of people somewhere in the world doesn't think he's a basket case pissing away the last vestages of his disappointingly meagre legacy.

[poptart]

Every spearchucker on earth should be shipped back to Africa and the continent placed under quarantine until they get their act together or die. They have no place in civilized society.

I thought you liked your NFL.

[OCmike]

I'll manage.

With a league full of Merrill Hodge's at tailback? Not likely.