Gun-don Galling
This morning I hear that yet another Teenager has been killed in Islington North London bringing the total number of teenage gang related murders in the capital to 4 since the weekend.
Surely London is acquiring Manchester's (Gunchester) unwanted crown of Knife and Gun capital of the UK. Perhaps this most dreadful event on New Labour's doorstep may spur them into action. Though even it does I am doubtful that it will get to the root of the problem and will focus naively on 'unpleasant music lyrics' or some other easy target which are in reality an exacerbating symptom and not a cause.
I was interested to hear that Desmond Tutu is bring his truth and reconcilliation foundation to help out in the UK. The foundation based upon the principles of "No one is necessarily evil" and of ubuntu (as in the Linux distro)- that is "I am because we are" or more fully:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1999):
“A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed"
Whilst the truth and reconciliation events in South African did some good I'm unfortunately sceptical that it will be meaningful in the UK.
Surely London is acquiring Manchester's (Gunchester) unwanted crown of Knife and Gun capital of the UK. Perhaps this most dreadful event on New Labour's doorstep may spur them into action. Though even it does I am doubtful that it will get to the root of the problem and will focus naively on 'unpleasant music lyrics' or some other easy target which are in reality an exacerbating symptom and not a cause.
I was interested to hear that Desmond Tutu is bring his truth and reconcilliation foundation to help out in the UK. The foundation based upon the principles of "No one is necessarily evil" and of ubuntu (as in the Linux distro)- that is "I am because we are" or more fully:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1999):
“A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed"
Whilst the truth and reconciliation events in South African did some good I'm unfortunately sceptical that it will be meaningful in the UK.
posted by Bois Y Cilie at 7:41 am
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