The Benefits of an Independent School Education...

[Zigenare]

Diane Abbott spoke about her son during a TV interview when she was running for the Labour leadership in 2010. Explaining her decisions about his education, she said: ‘I knew what could happen if my son went to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd. ‘They are subjected to peer pressure and when that happens it’s very hard for a mother to save her son. Once a black boy is lost to the world of gangs it’s very hard to get them back.

Read more: the full article

Are the City of London School Alumni classed as gang members?

[darmstadt]

No mention by the Mail or many other media outlets that the most recent offences took place when he was a patient in a psychiatric intensive care unit. Why let facts get in the way of a story.

[DaveB]

No mention by the Mail or many other media outlets that the most recent offences took place when he was a patient in a psychiatric intensive care unit. Why let facts get in the way of a story.

Nor any indication that any of this was in any way gang related.

[BlasterBates]

Thugs from independent schools are quite common.

Independent school thugs conspire to beat up a journalist

People even vote for them at a general election.

[Zigenare]

Nor any indication that any of this was in any way gang related.

So his mother, hypocrite that she is sends her precious bundle of joy to an independent school to keep him away from bad influences because "Once a black boy is lost to the world of gangs it’s very hard to get them back." and yet even after all that privilege the boy in question assaults a Police Officer. Looks like it's not just gangs that turn these boys bad.

[sasguru]

So his mother, hypocrite that she is sends her precious bundle of joy to an independent school to keep him away from bad influences because "Once a black boy is lost to the world of gangs it’s very hard to get them back." and yet even after all that privilege the boy in question assaults a Police Officer. Looks like it's not just gangs that turn these boys bad.

I know you're a bit slow, but what part of mental illness are you failing to get?

[Zigenare]

I know you're a bit slow, but what part of mental illness are you failing to get?

I get the part that it's possibly being used as an excuse.

[sasguru]

I get the part that it's possibly being used as an excuse.

So he was in a psychiatric care unit for a laugh?

[Zigenare]

So he was in a psychiatric care unit for a laugh?

Was he?

[original PM]

"Once a black boy is lost to the world of gangs it’s very hard to get them back."

So if gangs are just a 'black' problem then surely stopping and searching based on skin colour is fine then?

If a white person said that it would be racist.