The obvious answer.
There is a regular tendency in certain quarters to 'go beyond the obvious' if negatives appear regularly with regard to a particular social or ethnic group.
In the 70s, we were told that blacks were more likely to be stopped by Police in certain areas under the old 'suss laws'.
The conclusion which we were informed would have to be reached was that the Police were racist. This ignored the immediately more obvious fact that in these areas, black men were more likely to be hanging around outside in the street, after dark. Consequently, there were more blacks stopped.
For forty five years the left desperately tried to disguise the simple fact that more crime was being committed by black youths than by white. Why do this? Is it not dishonest? Do you not play more rapidly into the hands of the BNP (and worse) by such practices than you do by being frank? Remember the attitudes of the liberal-left some years ago when London muggers were revealed as 90% black? What an outcry that the facts had been revealed. - Well, they NEVER were again!
When black girls of Caribbean origin began to top the leagues of academic success in schools - there was no similar digging to find an alternative explanation. When these were replaced by youngsters of Asian origins, where were the complaints?
The latest in a long, long line of double standards is an official study some time ago which investigated why black children were three times more likely than white children to be expelled from school. It concluded with that absurd claim that schools are 'institutionally racist'. Where have we heard that ridiculous expression before?
I can assure my reader that if a child about to be excluded is black, even greater efforts will be made not to expel as treatment is rarely even-handed because of the 'prejudice police' who are always on the lookout for a story - however unlikely or tenuous the link. As a result and out of fear of criticism, schools are considerably LESS likely to expel children from ethnic minorities. I know. I have been there!
If black children are expelled at the declared rate, I can assure you that the problem runs even deeper than at face value. The simple conclusion must be that they are the ones more likely to misbehave.
What a shame that the Police did not have a little more clout when they were described as 'institutionally racist'.
In the 70s, we were told that blacks were more likely to be stopped by Police in certain areas under the old 'suss laws'.
The conclusion which we were informed would have to be reached was that the Police were racist. This ignored the immediately more obvious fact that in these areas, black men were more likely to be hanging around outside in the street, after dark. Consequently, there were more blacks stopped.
For forty five years the left desperately tried to disguise the simple fact that more crime was being committed by black youths than by white. Why do this? Is it not dishonest? Do you not play more rapidly into the hands of the BNP (and worse) by such practices than you do by being frank? Remember the attitudes of the liberal-left some years ago when London muggers were revealed as 90% black? What an outcry that the facts had been revealed. - Well, they NEVER were again!
When black girls of Caribbean origin began to top the leagues of academic success in schools - there was no similar digging to find an alternative explanation. When these were replaced by youngsters of Asian origins, where were the complaints?
The latest in a long, long line of double standards is an official study some time ago which investigated why black children were three times more likely than white children to be expelled from school. It concluded with that absurd claim that schools are 'institutionally racist'. Where have we heard that ridiculous expression before?
I can assure my reader that if a child about to be excluded is black, even greater efforts will be made not to expel as treatment is rarely even-handed because of the 'prejudice police' who are always on the lookout for a story - however unlikely or tenuous the link. As a result and out of fear of criticism, schools are considerably LESS likely to expel children from ethnic minorities. I know. I have been there!
If black children are expelled at the declared rate, I can assure you that the problem runs even deeper than at face value. The simple conclusion must be that they are the ones more likely to misbehave.
What a shame that the Police did not have a little more clout when they were described as 'institutionally racist'.
NO to special treatment! YES to equality of responsibility for all!
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