MEST 4 Xmas Task #3

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/4241/Are-young-black-kids-to-blame-for-the-gun-and-knife-crimewave

This article shown above is from the daily express talking about the increase of knife and gun crime and whether young black kids are to blame for the gun and knife crime wave that UK are currently witnessing. This article was displayed a long time ago in April 2007 whilst Tony Blair who was the former prime minister was in charge. Tony Blair felt that the young black British teens are the ones to blame. Having said that, he strongly believed that it was the fault of black teens committing these crimes as he is quoted in the article saying “We won’t stop this by pretending it isn’t young black kids doing it,”

This outburst has not only had a negative response from the audience but also the MPs. In which there response was provoked exasperation among victims’ groups and MPs. This article was showing how the number of not only knife crime but also gun crime as increased which has expectably caught the attention of the British government with death toll increasing ever so much.

This article has nothing in the matter of consideration for those lost ones as ruthless as it sounds this article have no consideration to those who have lost their children, partners and loved ones. I believe that this sums up the article as inconsiderate and only want to get what they believe is true in terms of who to blame for the tragic losses. As mentioned above, this article was published in early 2007 highlighting another young innocent victim of knife crime. In addition, the reason why I chose this particular article was because it interested me also because of how thoughtless it was to the people who may have lost their children and all it discusses about was what Mr Blair said.

This article has displayed typical skills of reinforcing stereotypes as they have put a hot topic from the news into their daily newspaper only giving from one point of view. Having done that, the daily express have then allowed the audience to have their say knowing that they have just been fed information from a different perspective. In addition, the question on whether black British teens are the ones to blame for the increase of gun and knife crime has allowed parts of the audience to agree with the institution who are arguably incorrect.