by Phillip Ellis

Created on: April 28, 2008

This is a black & white issue in the UK.

On an episode of Panorama-the BBCs flagship current affairs show-they did a report on child prostitution up north. Through the hour it became clear that most of the girls were very young and very white and most of the pimps were very black and very Asian, with Eastern Europeans running the show in the more rural areas of England. Its no secret that vice and immigration are mixed. Through some subtle editing and a nod and-a-wink to camera by the reporters we learnt the above facts. We also discovered that the police were too scared and over sensitive to come out and say it in public, and because the police tip toe around this type of crime there are hardly any arrests and so protection of these vulnerable girls. The lesson of Peterborough has not been learnt. Imagine the roles reversed and white gangs rounding up Asian kids for sex rings. My point here is that's it's the same with gun crime in the United Kingdom and that attitude in the police and white communities is out of sight out of mind, again prevailing because its a sensitive race issue. I really don't care if working class chavs will give oral sex for a packet of fags or cinema tickets in Bradford, but I do feel for the mums and dads who try their hardest to bring up kids and make it in the UK and their kids are gunned down in Hackney.

There was a bereaved dad on Radio Five last week who had lost his kid to this mindless violence. The boy had stepped into help someone being threatened and was turned on by a gang of youths, dieing in his father's arms twenty minutes later. Dad later set up a group called 3Unity, for other families and friends in their tragic position to get together and formulate a plan to fight back.
He explained that when he talked to these kids involved in gangs they told him that there are so many bad things and people in the borough yet it's the good guys that can change it who seem to get cut down, the guys who step in to stop it. That really stuck with me and I emailed his website to say well played, at least someone has got the guts to make that point. And let's be honest, younger kids guts are going to continue to spill out over the payments if this point isn't made. The black communities are the only ones who can really deal with this problem and the websites plan is to get as many people on board in the borough of Hackney so the bad guys are the extreme minority, eroding the wall of silence and fear. We know our crazy immigration policy

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