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.
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I was always under the impression that steaming was a specialised form of pick-poketing. That a gang would work a crowded area. [So if you get done over in the dodgy park when on your own that would be bog standard mugging.]
So Oxford street, Covent Garden, Camden Market and events such as the Notting Hill Carnival. Gangs work guaranteed big crowds of big wallet carriers in crowded areas, often tourist rich – none south of the river, unless there is an event on Clapham Common etc. They are more professional and organised than yer average drugy mugger. The most obvious [non tour party] tourists in London tend to be white whether from Germany, Spain, Aus or America.
If the media is to be believed a large proportion of young men of all types carry knives – but generally in N London it is the ones who are hearing voices emanating from the next lamp post that you really need to watch out for. [Or indeed young ladies in the vicinity of the Holloway Road and the like.]
When I checked it out steaming was when a group of people cornered one person and made them give up their shit. But the dude probably heard the term on talk back radio or in the Mail.