I hate the way the word 'culture' is used...

...well by most people anyways.

Anyways, here's Tony Blair on 'black youth culture':

In a speech yesterday, Blair said the violence was not a symptom of a broader social malaise and should not be treated as part of a general crime wave, but as specific to black youth, The Guardian reported.

He said people had to drop their political correctness and recognise that the violence would not be stopped "by pretending it is not young black kids doing it".

"What we are dealing with is not a general social disorder, but specific groups or people who for one reason or another are deciding not to abide" by society's codes of conduct, Blair said. Continue reading here

Hey, but if that's not enough - why not moralize around the issue and essentially blame WMS's favorite lynch-pin, black women, for the problem?

Mr Blair is known to believe the tendency for many black boys to be raised in families without a father leads to a lack of appropriate role models.

He said: "We need to stop thinking of this as a society that has gone wrong - it has not - but of specific groups that for specific reasons have gone outside of the proper lines of respect and good conduct towards others and need by specific measures to be brought back into the fold." Continue reading here
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In other news:

One more reason to girlcott Chapters, that is if you hadn't already!

I've decided to shift my blogging efforts to be more local, as I just haven been doing that at all - oddly enough most feminist bloggers have me listed as an AMERICAN! now, now...

Lake Oswego, Oregon - make yourself known!!! I see you in my site-meter and I'm wondering if we've ever been formally introduced ;)