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Shouldn’t we hear from victims of African crime – not just of racism?

24 January 2018

12:30 PM

24 January 2018

12:30 PM

Melbourne journalist Benjamin Miller writes in Fairfax Media on African crime “A mature society can talk about these issues in a way that does not paint every member of a particular community as a potential or likely threat.”

Yes, let’s.

Miller boasts local knowledge and displays refreshing interest in facts. But I’ll wager a Williamstown mortgage he doesn’t know about the council library west of West Gate Bridge where week after week gangs of young African men (often ten or more rampaging through the shelves when not fighting over wifi stations, usually the same ones – so gang is a fair descriptor...

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