The boot on the other foot.

 Subject: The boot on the other foot.





Each day we are made aware of kinks in our armour, every day we see cherished institutions like the police found wanting or more to the point individuals in the Force bring it into disrepute. The cry’s for reform come from parts of society who would never themselves venture out on a wet night not knowing if they might be injured or even killed. They are the people who rely on the police to keep them safe but reject the use of violence to do so. One of their weapons is to hurl abuse at institutions like the police by calling them institutionally racist. There’s no doubt at the sharp end of a battle the men charged with meeting violence with violence are left with mental scars and depending on the frequency they are asked to go into battle on our behalf, regardless of the training they receive some will become racist if the adversary is often the same.

What is never called into question is that if the adversary are themselves from an ethnic minority surely they too can be called racist by the very fact they hold their ethnicity as the reason for  going into battle on our streets, an act which the police force has to deal with which then reaffirms one of the reason for prejudice and violence.

One cannot only imagine the anger in the minds oppressed, hassled from an early stage in their life it helped instigate the violence seen in Manchester airport which eventually resulted in the brutal scene of the angered policeman kicking the man in the head. What we hadn’t seen was the punch thrown at his female colleague which broke her nose.. The niceties of combat and the reservoir of chivalry with which we are brought up to understand, “you don’t hit a woman” clicks in when the  policewoman is violently hit and clearly angered the policewoman. We are not shown how the altercation started of hear the the antagonism in the Pakistani groups rhetoric towards the police, all we get is the loaded  commentary from the media who, from the safety of their studio condemn the very tension their media contribution has helped bring about. The very “them and us” question mark which hangs over everything these days, from immigration to the ambulance service, from housing to schooling each amplified by media bias feeding and manipulating our minds. Even the concept of properly researched reporting is also manipulated and distorted in favour of the ‘spot check‘ assumption merited through the lens of a passer-by’s smart phone.

Dangerous times made more dangerous by the new television channels funded by Rupert Murdock where the show host can be as outrageous as he or she likes ( the shock jock) whilst the BBC walks on eggs with its version of the truth.

Everyone’s truth is tainted by everyone’s experience and we must never forget that everyones truth is equally relevant to them.