literally another aussie in london

black steaming gangs

“Get out down to South London sometime moron and and see how long you last with your snowy white anti racist credentials. Funny how these black steaming gangs tend only to attack whites (often alone or in pairs and doing no more than going home after a night out probably having socialised with people of colour themelves).”

This comment was left on the blog Enemies of Reason, a sarcastic take on the Daily Mail and other pinnacles of Journalism.

I live in South London. Inner South London. Just off Brixton Rd.

I’ve still never been steamed, or seen steaming, in South London, and in general I’m in South London everyday.

It should also be mentioned that I am white.

Really white.

So white I almost glow in the dark.

I make ginger people giggle.

Every day I walk around South London, the dodgy bits, and the good bits. I play basketball in the park, go for a jog or to the cricket nets in a much dodgier park, walk at night, and generally live my life.

Never have I seen any violence.

The only violence I know of in my area was a kid being stabbed by another kid, both were black.

I have been burgled here, but I’ve been burgled on three continents by many different ethnicities and skin tones.

So I have no idea what this guy was going on about.

I’m not sure if he is from South London, or even from Earth.

I’m sure steaming does exist, but if I travel by bus and tube, plus walking, all around South London all the time, and I have never seen it, I doubt people visiting for an afternoon for proof of people of colour (as he so respectfully describes them) mugging random whites.

Sometimes when I read about London it conjurers up images of some rat infested city where everyone has a knife and no white person is safe, then I leave my front door and walk to Brixton Rd and see a white woman walking her baby.

The baby does not have a knife.

March 9, 2010 Posted by Jrod | living in london | knives, racism | 2 Comments