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Two racist attacks

AntiRacist | 04.12.2002 10:08

A tale of two race attacks, one is reported, the other isn't. No prizes for guessing which.

A Tale of Two Attacks

420 miles separate the largest cities of England and Scotland. In terms of media reporting of two equally tragic incidents that have recently occured in London and Glasgow could be worlds' apart.

Within an hour of a 32 year old Iranian asylum seeker being horrifically attacked and stabbed by young white thugs the media launched a flurry of emotive headlines about this appalling crime.

Superintendent Colin Campbell, of Strathclyde Police, said: "As a result of our investigation so far, and in accordance with standard procedures, we are now treating this attack as a racially motivated incident."

Meanwhile in London the politically correct Metropolitan Police Force are being very coy about identifying the victim and the alleged attackers who kicked and stamped to death a young shopper outside Tesco in Lewisham, south London. This horrific killing occured on Saturday evening.

Fatal Race attack outside Tesco in Lewisham on Saturday 30th Nov. hasnt been labelled as such by the Met. Could this be because the victim is White?







The press and the Met havent issued the news that is now well known in local circles that the victim was a young white male and the alleged murderers were from an ethnic minority background. Today Police released the identity of the victim as 30 year old Scott Osborne. Police have arrested 4 local teenage youths who still currently being detained, but have still not stated that they are treating this as a racially motivated incident.

With regard to the media handling of the 2 incidents we have to question is the fatal attack on a White Briton no longer worth reporting whereas the equally appalling but non-fatal attack on an asylum seeker a better headline?

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Why don't you lefties realise that this is what is happening to our country. Thanks to you white people can now be attacked and nobody hears about it. This is the truth. We are facing genocide in our own country and all you lot can talk about is letting more ethnics/asylum seekers in. No wonder you have no support among your supposed constituancy, the working class, who have to face this daily misery in our multiracial hell holes.

AntiRacist