Gang!

Our area's been in the news, no thanks to some kid getting killed on a bus. The thing is, living round here I've never seen it so bad. I wrote a piece ages ago about how if Stephen Lawrence was alive now, he would face more problems from gangs and Africans than the far right, which seems to have collapsed here, and got an angry comment saying how. Well this is how. I'll reiterate this for you, the only other reason it made news here apart from being an abhorrent racist attack is that it someone stabbed and killed wasn't an everyday thing. And no I know Ste Lawrence wasn't the only one killed. But it wasn't 20 knife attacks a year then, there wasn't a large west African community here in the 90's (Lewisham, Brixton or Peckham was much more likely, but still more West Indian than West African,) or people wanting to run with gangs and the live and die by the sword mentality they bring. 

We had a large Indian and Pakistani community that was no trouble at all. We finally kicked out the BNP some time in the late 90's and West Africa moved in. The bingo hall became a church as did the Coronet Cinema in Woolwich (not far from where this attack took place, fact fans.) And it seems that we lost our identity along with our security. I have no solutions to these problems and if you are going to blame Islam because of the mosque I'll say it again for those at the back, we've had Muslims here for ages and have had no problems, same with the Sikhs at the gurdwara at the back of what was Gateway (now a big building project). Its Christians and fucked up gang mentality that is the cause of the problems. Maybe an eye for an eye really does make everyone blind. It certainly won't change whilst Khan is in charge.