Former Equality Commission chairman says white liberals need to ‘tell the truth about violence in UK semi-ghettos’
by Trevor Phillips, Mailonline:
Last week, the heartbroken family of another young victim returned to their home in Romania after just a few weeks living here in Britain.
London, they said, was a dangerous place where ‘terrible things can happen in the blink of an eye. If you say the wrong thing to the wrong person you could end up dead’.
Their own son, Beniamin Pieknyi, was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was stabbed to death in an East London shopping centre – just one more victim of a vicious urban conflict that has already cost hundreds of lives, five in the past week alone.
Three killings have taken place within ten minutes of my own front door this year alone – and shrines have been erected to boys and girls sacrificed in an unwinnable war.
I’m the son of poor immigrants and have no doubt that, were I a teenager today, I too would be caught up in the carnage.
This epidemic of knife crime has not appeared from nowhere. It has been gathering for some time, yet the warnings from me and others were ignored. Even now, the political response has been pathetic, focusing – irrelevantly, in my opinion – on police numbers.
In fact there is no evidence that having bobbies on the beat will deter teenage thugs. The chances of a policeman being on the right corner at the right time are probably less than the same officer being struck by lightning.
But there is plenty that we can do, and urgently.
First we need to be clear about who is dying and who is doing the killing, and we must be honest that there is a racial component to the violence.
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