Susie featured this video recently and it reminded me of my reaction to the pictures of those arrested in the aftermath of the rioting in Britain. I haven’t seen anything that white since the last time I opened a new package of undershirts. Some of those people look like they belonged under a sheet at the medical examiner’s office.

So, British Prime Minister Cameron said the riots had nothing to do with poverty, but the Guardian, who didn’t buy the whitewashing of the hacking scandal, decided to check: England rioters: young, poor and unemployed

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A Liverpool University urban planning lecturer, Alex Singleton, analysed the Guardian’s preliminary data by overlaying the addresses of defendants with the poverty indicators mapped by England’s Indices of Multiple Deprivation, which breaks the country into small geographical areas.

He found that the majority of people who have appeared in court live in poor neighbourhoods, with 41% of suspects living in one of the top 10% of most deprived places in the country. The data also shows that 66% of neighbourhoods where the accused live got poorer between 2007 and 2010.

Singleton said: “Rioting is deplorable. However, if events such as this are to be mitigated in the future, the prevailing conditions and constraints affecting people living in areas must form part of the discussion. A ‘broken society’ happens somewhere, and geography matters.”
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When I read the media coverage I was expecting to see people of color, not pasty white Anglo-Saxons doing the perp walk. The victims were generally people of color, which would indicate that they were in multi-ethic neighborhoods, but the people taken to court don’t seem to be – they are just poor.

There must have been some non-white rioters, but perhaps the police can’t locate them. To some people all non-whites look the same.

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It looks like Harvey will roll over the Bay Island late tonight or early tomorrow, and may reach hurricane strength before hitting Belize.

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Boring…

Don’t you tire of that?

[Editor: Tonto isn’t impressed by much. She avoids the rush at meal time because one of her kids might want to renew their acquaintance. She has a hard and fast rule: after weaning, you’re on your own.]

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