[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Okay, so it's a socio economic issue. But that's the cause, and the symptom is that knife crime, gun crime, and gang crime is higher in their communities. Whatever the solution is, it won't be helped by not taking steps to stop those crimes from happening.

The indicators of these issues have been the same for a couple of hundred years. Poverty, masculinity, access to education, and exposure to domestic violence.

England used to have white street gangs (and still does) involved in exactly the same kind of things that has now been labelled as "black on black" crime. Several regions in the country have higher "murder rates" than London does, and some of the most horrific incidents of knife crime over the last few years haven't included black people as either the perp or the victim, such as the 13yr old girl stabbed to death in Southampton, a 7yr old girl stabbed to death in York, and a 5yr old stabbed to death by the mother in Oxfordshire.

But when both parties are white, race suddenly loses it's importance in the conversation. The black on black narrative is purely to drive up the impression that the blackness is the key indicator. What about kids with a white parent? Is it the black half taking over the white half?

No one ever uses blackness as the reason for overachievement. The most academically successful family in the country is from Ghana, and the 4 y youngest pupils in the country to achieve GCSE's are all also black.