what a disgrace and a waste of life.

[jumpy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6483491.stm

I wonder how long it will be until this guy is let out for good behaviour? I know I'm pre-empting things a bit as he's not even been sentenced yet but I don't hold out any great hope of any real justice being served.

I get the impression that many young men like Bradley Tucker put great emphasis on 'respect' (innit?); unfortunately their attitude to this appears to be bleeding into communities other than their own. Sadly most of these people (if you can call them such) have no understanding of what respect is really all about; you have to give it to receive it. This perversion of theirs, this misapropriation of a value they do not understand under the auspices of finding a way to elevate themselves to some higher social standing, where threats to their 'respect' (innit) have to be met with force, less they seem to their equally warped peers that they are being 'dissed', is a gross and terrible example of how litte true respect many young people actually have for anyone or anything.
Of all of the avenues of social development black communities could have followed, this trend in the younger generations has to be one of the worst, evoking some of the nastiest and most antisocially motivated filth to date.

In the current state of apologising for slavery I have to see the irony of then and now (albeit in the darkest of humour): then us evil whites considered blacks as less than human, and now, in regards to this particular incident I have to say very litte has changed imo. A dog is a dog and should be treated as such.
That probably sounds like racism to some, but I would hope that those who know me here can see it for what it reflects: my disgust at the callous and cavallier murder of a young father by a boy who deserves to spend the rest of his life the servitude that his people struggled for so long to be free from. Perhaps that would show him the value of life, of which he is currently so obviously ignorant.