AJGO
Tuesday 9th August 2011 10:41am
London
4,987 posts
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ August 9 2011, 10:12 AM BST
That's a bit naive Ajgo, if I may. None of these shocking events have taken place yet in non white populated areas such as Bradford, Oldham, Burnley, Southall, Hounslow, Tower Hamletts, etc. The ones they have taken place so far in, are those already mentioned, where yes, the racial make up is heavily black, Afro Carribean. Someone is going to have to have the bottle to bring this alarming detail up at some stage! Or we will get nowhere!
I take your point, but think it's more to do with a disproportionate amount of non white people being poor, and so there may be a disproportionate amount of non white people taking part in these events. When someone suggests that it's racially motivated, I would interpret that as being a certain section of the community rebelling on behalf on their cultural background, and I'm just not seeing that here. There were white British people, black people, asian people, turkish people, and eastern european people taking part. This is more about poverty than about race, if it's about anything, and non white people are more likely to be living in poverty, or at least worse off than many white people. But there are plenty of white British people, and people from other cultural backgrounds also experiencing these inequalities, and participating in these riots.
But that's the political explanation, whereas a load of violent thugs nicking what they can because they know they can, without any cultural or political motivation, seems closer to the reality.