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Is It Time To Stop The Annual Festival Of "Caribbean Culture"?
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Drug dealing, Violence, attempted murder.....sounds like fun!
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Imagine a festival to celebrate 1,000 years of white culture taking place in London. I know but kid yourself. Firstly I don't think there are enough in London any longer and secondly It wouldn't be allowed to happen. If there was however and violent crimes were committed on day 1, then Rowley's wannabee stormtrooper
20:06 Mon 26th Aug 2024
Other cultures manage to clebrate without too much violence attached.
I don't think it should be stopped, but organisers and police and councils need to get together to re-think the format. It's now too big and all in one place. Perhaps break it up into parts and spread it around more geographically; it would be more pleasant for all concerned - except the dealers and the crooks.
Perhaps
"Is it time to stop this annual xenophobic rant on answerbank."
The rant is not xenophobic. In fact it's not a rant at all. It is a perfectly reasonable question and it get's asked annually because the same issue crops up annually.
Xenophobia is a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners, or of people from other countries. The people causing this annual mayhem are not strangers, foreigners or from other countries. By and large they are Londoners.
This "Carnival" should never have been allowed to take hold. The place to properly celebrate Carribean culture is in the Carribean where they seem to like that sort of thing. It is nothing but a shambles and causes enormous disruption over a wide area for the entire Bank Holiday weekend.
It is an attraction for drug dealers and other undesireables and inevitably leads to violent crime.
I once worked with somebody who lived in a flat in All Saints Road. Every year she had to leave her flat on the Thursday before BH and go to stay with her mother until Tuesday. On two occasions she returned to find her flat had been burgled and on the second of those occasions her flat and four or five others nearby had been denuded of everything of any value and the place trashed. She wasn't living there the following year.
This time there is a 32 year old mother fighting for her life and a police spokesman said (as they do most years) that the Carnival "had been marred by an unacceptable level of violence".
"Carribean culture" obviously includes drug dealing and stabbing people. It must do because we're told that's what the Carnival celebrates and those offfences occur every year.
Local residents should not have to put up with this year after year. They are entitled to enjoy the BH the same as everybody else without fear of being mugged, burgled or stabbed. I suggest those wishing to celebrate Carribean culture should save up for the fare to the Carribean.
TORATORATORA "Drug dealing, Violence, attempted murder.....sounds like fun!"
From your link, "A man wanted for attempted murder was spotted at the carnival and arrested."
He was wanted for attempted murder, it hadn't happened at the carnival.
How does the number of alleged offences per 100,000 at the carnival compare to the number of offences per 100,000 folk in London on average?
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