The hood can **** off - they don't own our streets, luv!

i bet you live in sum village in devon or suttin and you never been 2 the hood in your life

No I haven't - but that doesn't change anything! Anyone behaving like that should be in jail - that is where animals belong!

Then in that case teenage gangs hanging around on street corners have nothing to complain about if the police stop and search them every time they patrol past them, should they?

Well blacks seem to have that 'Us against them' attitude. They never cooperate with the police really anyway. They're only victims to themselves.

lol at the hood

you mean some skanky housing scheme with a bunch of junk food daisies and JJB sports clad numpties

wooooo

scary:joker:

I've seen that video of the Burnley riots. Crazy stuff.

Yeh same I come from a rough diverse area and the black lads used to get battered by the cops never mind just stopped the white lads never got that + the street/gang culture makes young black criminals more visible

I blame the black fathers, or lack of them

Exactly.......If a red car is seen in the course of a crime you don't expect the police to look for blue ones......They look for what fits the description........Political correctnesss madness.......I would love to see political correctness become a crime in its self.......

Its not just black youths that get involved in crime or have absent fathers, sure theres a problem with absent fathers/street gangs anyone from the black community would agree, but what use is there in singling the black community out when trying to solve a problem that invloves people from all backgrounds who are marginalised from society? , better to tackle the problem as a whole and each individual community involved need to step up and take action. When you've grown up in a poor area you can see perfectly well that theres criminal behaviour going on from white and ethnic minority groups, you just might be more likely to get yer spliff and crack from a black man and your e's and whizz from a white man, but it will be the minority groups that are more likely to get picked up for various reasons...and treated more harshly

Both sides are right really, I'm guessing most of the police are just using profiling methods and such but there'll always be a percentage that are prejudiced sadly. The police are human and like with everyone else some will have their faults not that it justifies baseless acusations and such.

It's weird how it's almost always black on black crime as well. The gang culture they've adopted is getting ridiculous.

Its not just a problem in the black community though, you get the same things happening amongst white marginalised subcultures in the most deprived areas too. Where you get poverty ,deprivation, no jobs, drugs are rife, no hope, no aspiration and your cut off and discriminated against by mainstream society....the same problems occur, its not a new thing and its not because they iZ Black aiiight

None of that in the deep deep highlands tho LT

Very true and good words - watch "Trainspotting" (or read the book) which is all about the sub-culture in the affluent City of Edinburgh for people marginalised

The phrase is 'social exclusion' in many circles

When I was a student at EDI, a few kept on going on about how nice Edinburgh was.........I got a shot of my dad's car and drove them to Pilton Circus (an almost round bleak set of 60s slums). We were able to drive around for about a quarter of the circle before the rubble in the road made it impossible to continue so I had to reverse all the way back which was easy as there were no parked cars.

I think people here forget that poverty and hopelessness still exist in UK too irrespective of race or colour.

Oh yeh and "social inclusion" massively on the agenda these days, which is good sign, just hope the cons dont get in and feck it all up, kick em back down....seen Trainspotting, class film

Hit us with more president - or did Gavin drag you to the chucch to have a committee meeting about it?


How deep is it in the highlands? Less deep than Wales?

I never said it was just a black prob. It's just this new underclass that has been created.