Ben Kinsella: A racist murder?

[max_tranmere]

Three black guys chase a white guy down a north London street at 1.00am in the morning and knife him to death, and it is just 'a murder'. I can absolutely gaurentee that if three white guys had chased a black guy down a London street and knifed him to death it would be 'a racist murder'. Not only that but politicans would be passing comment on it, 'community leaders', who no one would ever have heard of, would be dominating the news programmes talking about how racism is a cancer in our society and needs to be removed. The Police commissioner would regularly be on TV talking about the huge efforts they are putting into trying to solve it (as they would be so petrified that this may be another Stephen Lawrence type issue for them). There would also be burseries set up that give grants to under priviledged youngsters (but stangely only under priviledged youngsters of the same ethnicity as the person who had been murdered), a 'centre' would be opened named after him, and so on. None of these things have happened in the wake of Ben Kinsella. Hardly a level playing field is it?

[number 6]

It wasnt a racist murder though.

[max_tranmere]

Number 6, my whole issue is that if it was a case of three guys killing someone else, just for his wallet or whatever, and they would have done it irrespective of what colour he was, then it would STILL be called a racist murder if the assailants were white and the victim was black - and all the other things I've outlined would have occured aswell. So it would 'be' a racist murder even if it wasnt as such. Why doesnt this happen the other way around? Even if these three guys (who were black) werent going after Ben because he was white - and would have done him whether he was white, black, chinese, anything - why is THAT not viewed the same way? [I also don't want to let it be forgotten just how evil this all was - Ben Kinsella had his whole life ahead of him, and these three pieces of shit killed him. I hope they die in jail!].

[Peter]

Remember how the window-smashing at the Stephen Lawrence Centre was immediately called a race attack, until they found out one of the kids who did it was black, then it was convieniently changed to vandalism?

[videokim]

Because our goverment as weird pc policies two wrongs don't make a right,
being brought up in West ham i have a lot of black / indian & other ethnic friends who cop it just for their skin colour. A black friend of mine used to be pulled every time he went out in his sports car because simply he was young & black.
Having friends in the ICF & Upton Park Black Mafia i saw lots on naughty things but most of it was gangland not a black/white thing as the media make it out to be.

John

[JonnyHungwell]

Of course it's racist, although that's not the spin the police/politicians want to put on it, for fear of upsetting minorities ---- that's why people vote for the BNP, because everyone knows the shit that goes on in our system.

[number 6]

They vote BNP cause they want clean politics do they??lol,only thick ignoramuses or nazis vote BNP,everyone with half a brain knows they are scum. Dont make excuses for the braindead.

[dynatech]

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