Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Toh... Blair e' pure razzista!  Ma solo quando e' "franco".

Questa mi era sfuggita.
Immaginatevi se, in uno sprazzo di ribellione alla famigerata
Political Correctness, Blair avesse detto che l'Olocausto e' stato
causato dall'inferiorita' della cultura tedesca, il fascismo da quella
Italiana, o l'oppressione Palestinese a una propensione culturale al
razzismo degli Ebrei.  Ma si sa, gli Inglesi sono culturalmente
portati a dire cazzate, oltre che a partecipare a massacri di
centinaia di migliaia di Afghani e Irakeni.  E' la loro natura.
Culturale, eh :-/
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2054958,00.html
Blair blames spate of murders on black culture
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".
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It needed to be addressed by a tailored counter-attack in the same way
as football hooliganism was reined in by producing measures aimed at
the specific problem, rather than general lawlessness.
Mr Blair's remarks are at odds with those of the Home Office minister
Lady Scotland, who told the home affairs select committee last month
that the disproportionate number of black youths in the criminal
justice system was a function of their disproportionate poverty, and
not to do with a distinctive black culture.
Giving the Callaghan lecture in Cardiff, the prime minister admitted
he had been "lurching into total frankness" in the final weeks of his
premiership. He called on black people to lead the fight against knife
crime. He said that "the black community - the vast majority of whom
in these communities are decent, law abiding people horrified at what
is happening - need to be mobilised in denunciation of this gang
culture that is killing innocent young black kids".
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".
Last night, British African-Caribbean figures leading the fight
against gang culture condemned Mr Blair's speech. The Rev Nims Obunge,
chief executive of the Peace Alliance, one of the main organisations
working against gang crime, denounced the prime minister.
Mr Obunge, who attended the Downing Street summit chaired by Mr Blair
in February, said he had been cited by the prime minister: "He makes
it look like I said it's the black community doing it. What I said is
it's making the black community more vulnerable and they need more
support and funding for the work they're doing. ... He has taken what
I said out of context. We came for support and he has failed and has
come back with more police powers to use against our black children."
Keith Jarrett, chair of the National Black Police Association, whose
members work with vulnerable youngsters, said: "Social deprivation and
delinquency go hand in hand and we need to tackle both. It is curious
that the prime minister does not mention deprivation in his speech."
Lee Jasper, adviser on policing to London's mayor, said: "For years we
have said this is an issue the black community has to deal with. The
PM is spectacularly ill-informed if he thinks otherwise.
"Every home secretary from [David] Blunkett onwards has been pressed
on tackling the growing phenomenon of gun and gang crime in deprived
black communities, and government has failed to respond to what has
been a clear demand for additional resources to tackle youth
alienation and disaffection".
The Home Office has already announced it is looking at the possibility
of banning membership of gangs, tougher enforcement of the supposed
mandatory five-year sentences for possession of illegal firearms, and
lowering the age from 21 to 18 for this mandatory sentence.
Answering questions later Mr Blair said: "Economic inequality is a
factor and we should deal with that, but I don't think it's the thing
that is producing the most violent expression of this social
alienation.
"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."
Some people working with children knew at the age of five whether they
were going to be in "real trouble" later, he said.
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.

ringleaders "taken out of circulation".
Vero.  Rendere piu' incisive le leggi e sbattere in galera i capi delle
gang non ha nulla a che vedere con il razzismo, per quanto il povero
Torrieri e gli idioti del Guardian possano pensare altrimenti :)
-Stefano