Sunday, April 13, 2008
PUSSYFEET
Editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald:
What we have not been told is the full story behind this attack. Why, for instance, are lockdown drills needed in a Sydney high school? Clearly an incident of this sort has been expected for some time. The children at the school had no doubt that most of the alleged attackers were of Pacific Islander background. Is that a dreadful thing to acknowledge? Not if it is true, surely. Yet to listen to some youth workers and education experts speak about the events at Merrylands is to hear a torrent of the most extraordinary obfuscation, and a reluctance to acknowledge the reality that local residents live with every day. There is no point pussyfooting around the issue of ethnicity.
This is from the same newspaper that constantly deletes references to Middle Eastern crime suspects from police reports.