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Film maker:
Anthony Weekes
AKA Romantic Juggler
Length: 1.10
mins
Date: 4
Feb 2003
Subject: Community |
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Title:
Gun Culture
Anthony says gangster rap music is behind the rise
in gun crime in inner city Manchester. As a DJ on a community radio station
broadcasting to Moss Side, Hulme and Longsite he bans bad language and gun
music. He blames American pop artistes for driving communities - and sometimes
families - apart.
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How
do you stop gangs using guns?
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Jason
says:
Coming from a DJ, blaming music for the problems of Gun Crime to me is very
disturbing. So he doesn't play music with bad language on his shows. So
what? Other stations and even other shows on his station will. It is not
the music that is behind Gun culture, it is the people themselves. Can Anthony
really sit there and say, "yes, they heard So Solid, so they went out and
got a gun and shot someone"? Be real. Pointing the finger at music and American
pop artists is not the solution to this problem. You can even take off all
gangsta rap and other music with bad language. Will that stop crime too?
No. It is the people in these gangs, peer pressure, family values and social
deprevation that are among the areas which need blaming. It's easy to ask
the question how to stop gangs. But you need the resources and the capabilities
to manage that solution and clearly, our government isn't either prepared
too, or cannot afford to provide such resources. Solutions such as the gun
amnesty, which I think was a success, is needed more. There's too much talk
in our government and not enough action. Legalising or reducing the class
of certain drugs is another positive step. This issue has already been raised
before but could prove to be a major breakthrough with these gangs. They
have nothing to sell if drugs were legalised. I guess the depths of such
a solution is something this Government cannot fathom. |
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