The worst news from England in quite a while

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While 20% of white people between 16 and 24 years of age are unemployed - which is bad enough - 48% of blacks are. Whatever the reason, and whether or not anything can be done to correct it, that means bad trouble to come. And more to the point, there is something essentially wrong with it. A fair society should not put up with a whole section of it being unable to access employment.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8468308.stm
http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2010/01/20/53753/nearly-half-of-young-black-people-are-out-of-work.html

[panobjecticon.livejournal.com]

thanks, i'm not sure that the conditions exist for the term tinderbox to apply anymore. but i'll bet there's been few tea urns nicely polished, just in case...

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Considering that the violent teen-age gangs that haunt the streets of London and other British cities are composed in large parts of disaffected black youths, I think the script is practically written.