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Errr....no it isn't. Try reading it again.
Oh and stop trolling.
Nope, did a quick wee search there and apparently it was abolished round the early 1980's. What's that got to do with the police today?
Ok, it says "can't" instead of "shouldn't," the point I'm trying to make is that she signles out blacks. Why not just everyone, what she is trying to say is that the police, a widely recognised white institution, is inherently racist against blacks. That to me is in itself, a racist comment.
I don't blame her for being bitter, but that doesn't make her bitter ramblings accurate, fair or tolerable.
It certainly doesn't mean she should be put on a fucking pedestal to say how fantastically great she is and how every word she utters is total truth.
It's not as prevalent as the lefties try to claim.
I think the BBC have proven several times that they are liars.
After all, that's what an independent judicial review concluded.
I was gonna say something intelligent, but actually, sod that, that comment is too stupid for words.
Take that implication and ram it up your fucking arse.
The racism here is that of the murderers of Stephen Lawrence and the insitutionalised one that was present in the police and prejudiced the case in such way (he's black so he must be a drug dealer so the murder was just drug related- case closed, let's go fetch some doughnuts).
And it cannot be denied that there have been (and sadly, they continue to be) mistreatment of black people at the hands of the police. The comments might or might not be wrong, but they ain't racist.
Sarcasm that was prompted by your cynical post full of allegations and accusations that remain to be proven.
Why did she single out blacks then. Why didn't she just say "No one can trust the police" She's infereing that the police are mainly white, they're racist and don't give a fuck about blacks when in reality, it was only a few corrupt cops.
The whole police, or just a few. The phrase, "Blacks can't trust the police" is very misleading IMO.
You wish. We all know the BBC wouldn't be 'bankrupted' - the license fee would just go up again.
You're not refering to Hutton are you?
Surely not so ultra right wing lying scumbags such as Rupert Murdoch can claim total dominance of world media and brainwash everyone just as they do to the American public?
The BBC is one of the few things mankind has produced that is precious and should be protected and treasured.
The most impartial news source in the world? Are you having a laugh? The Beeb is as biased as the rest, its just bias that agrees with your world view.
The way she construes her arguments is that ALL black people cannot trust the police, and the only reason why they cannot be trusted is because all police officers are white. As they are white they are therefore racists who will deliberately target black people.
Her attitude, shown in much of what she says, is that the police only did what they did because he was black, and the police only did what they did because they were white.
The main problem I have with her is that she seems to think she is some sort of authority because her son was murdered and the police cocked up the investigation. It's not like the police haven't done that before, and not all the victims of bungled investigations were black.
You're not this thick turlough, stop pretending you are.
The police have a history of being racist against blacks turlough. This is fact. People have memories.
I'm wondering if you've ever been to areas like Brixton, Hackney, St Pauls, Handsworth, Toxteth etc?
A black mate of mine in his late 30's who grew up in Hackney and now lives in Brixton has lots of stories to tell about the police stopping him and harassing hime merely because of his colour. It was very common for black people to be fitted up and beaten in the back of the van for no reason except their skin colour in the 80's. It still sometimes happens today.
Funnily enough, my mate now teaches race diversity training at Hendon.
Read up about Brixton in the 70's and 80's turlough. It might give you some insight.
I'm well aware. I've seen a documentary about the Brixton riots recently on T.V.
And the police, of course, never ever do that to white people.
:rolleyes:
I'm not saying the police are pure, but it sure as hell isn't all about black people. And I genuinely don't believe the police fucked up simply because he was black, because that implies they wouldn't have left a white lad of similar background there, and the police would have done.
You're not reading what I say.
I just don't think that every black kid who gets nicked is nicked because he's black- which is something Lawrence has tried to imply on a number of occasions.
The police treat people they don't like badly everywhere- the kids off the estates in Carlisle get treated like crap, and there ain't a black kid in sight there.
I'm wondering if you have any thing you can point to to support your opinion of her as racist?
She isn't stupid enough to come out and be openly racist.
The police have behaved badly in lots of areas, and it isn't just against black people. It never was.
I don't blame her for being angry at what happened, and I can understand why she hates the police, but what annoys me so much is how everyone else tongues her arse and says how fucking wonderful she is. Her son was murdered, sad, but it doesn't make her an expert on social policy. Mostly I think she's just a tired old gobshite.
I genuinely don't think it was cocked up because he was black, because the police cock up lots of things, and not all the victims are black. And I don't really believe or care what MacPherson said, as I think that report was more about appeasing the media darling Lawrence than anything else.
btw, find out something about Brixton policing in the 70's and 80's
It's an opinion formed on ten years of what she's said. As I've just explained, I can't point to one particular thing she's said. She hasn't said "I hate white people", but a lot of what she says implies that she does.
I'm also well aware of policing, thank you very much.
As usual Blaggy, you're falling into the trap of thinking that because I think its bullshit it means I don't know enough about it. I know plenty about it, and I think most of what Doreen Lawrence says is tired old gobshite.
So you can't actually back up your pov?