Musician Akala perfectly explains an important point about the reporting of knife crime
Hip hop artist, Akala, is one of the clearer voices we hear cropping up on current affairs programmes. In a segment on Good Morning Britain, Piers Morgan asked him this question.
“Do you think there is a racial element to that in terms of cultural issues, racial issues, or is it the same problem they had in Glasgow where they were white, and actually the race part of this is something where we look at the statistics, think it’s a black problem and actually it’s not?”
Akala’s reply is a very powerful and logical argument against painting knife crime as a black issue.
‘Black-on-black violence is used to give the public the ridiculous impression all black people are at an equal risk of [committing] violent crime.’@akalamusic explains why making knife crime a race issue is counterproductive. pic.twitter.com/E9pFrTBdcw
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) March 18, 2019
“You will never be called upon to explain that not all middle-aged white men are paedophiles, despite the fact that hundreds, maybe thousands, of them are convicted of sex offences every year.”
His clear and reasonable comment drew a lot of support.
Akala should be on news programmes daily to provide actual facts and sense rather than the usual irrelevant right wing muppets they have on.
— uncrushedsaboteur ❄️ (@lukewhostalkin) March 18, 2019
This guy knows what he is talking about. Should be a politician. Everything he spoke about was true. If we took the predominantly white teenagers from Glasgow in the 60s/70s and dropped them in London then exactly the same wiuld happen. Nothing to do with race but social balance
— GordOldSkool (@Gord1954) March 18, 2019
Amazing to hear someone who actually knows their facts and can give a proper root cause analysis of what is actually happening in society #Akala
— Naveen J Shaikh (@NaveenJShaikh) March 18, 2019
Love @akalamusic ❤️❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/D2Sq1mNjd3
— Ian Wright (@IanWright0) March 18, 2019
need this man to come give me a pep talk everyday, absolute national treasure. It's not just what he says, but also how he says it…brilliant human https://t.co/hMad5p4BWM
— LINA (@agirlcalledlina) March 18, 2019
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— Natasha Junejo (@natashajunejo) March 19, 2019
H/T: Indy100