Who'd Be A Teacher These Days?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27193638
Knife weilding savages running around. What's it comming to?

[emmie]

awful story - this is still a rare event

[emmie]

why make this about colour, a teacher is killed by a 15 year old boy,
a truly horrific case.

[B00]

The child is a middle class Goth, so I doubt he'd be black, not that it should make a difference I know, but it does seem that colour's raised its ugly head once again.

[youngmafbog]

No they are not SP. You have overstepped the mark this time.

For once please get that chip off your shoulder, this is far more important than the colour of your skin.

[emmie]

Boo, where does it say that, about being a Goth...

[anneasquith]

really, you are discussing the boys colour ? do you think the ladies family care what colour he is, :(

[emmie]

i wasn't but it has been mentioned.

[Svejk]

Teflon brought colour into it, again.

[anotheoldgit]

emmie

/// where does it say that, about being a Goth ///

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2615421/Middle-class-drug-user-Grim-Reaper-drawn-Facebook-page-Classmates-tell-murder-suspect-bright-boy-loner.html

[emmie]

i only read the BBC report this morning.

[sp1814]

I am making this about race because there are certain members of AB who have jumped at the chance of conflating every other knife story in the past couple of years with a chance to slate black people.

Therefore, it's relevant.

Unless of course, we are allowed to only mention race when the suspect is black?

Are only 'certain persons' on AB allowed to mention race in relation to knife crime.

[youngmafbog]

No SP, this time you are bang out of order trying to turn this into a race issue.

Maybe he is black, maybe a Goth, maybe whatever. It really is of no relevance.

[grumpy01]

I haven't read all posts so this may have been mentioned before.Possibility this lad,who apparently did not stand out as a "bad apple", had been coerced into trying drugs with catastrophic results.

[emmie]

then why didn't you say that he was a white boy before anyone said.
it doesn't matter, the poor lady has lost her life, a senseless killing

[sp1814]

Look at this:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question669521.html

This is what a certain person said about black people:

When are you hand wringing leffties going to wake up and admit that it is not the colour of their skin, but their whole culture that makes them the savages they are.

So before any of you clamber up of your high horses, recognise that these kinds of statements have been made in relation to black kids an AB for years.

[sp1814]

That second paragraph is me, not the original poster.

[emmie]

perhaps that's what gets in the press, pretty much like your assumption that fat white bloke, sporting tattoos and draping themselves in the flag of St George are all knuckle dragging morons. you said as such the other day

[dunnitall]

Agree with YMB there was no need to turn this into a racial issue, why do it when the story is horrendous whoever killed the poor woman? Race surely doesn't have to be brought into such issues and it was wrong to do so IMO.

[sp1814]

Yes emmie - exactly.

I find it odd when some here are allowed to use racist terms.

[emmie]

you do, sorry but sometimes you can't see it