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The state of comments on this story had us reminiscing on the estate Grant grew up on & how violence has been a cycle going back to his dad’s youth & friends we had growing up who ended up getting sucked in to dealing or theft or fell victim to random attacks. https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1357843686177046528
One of these type stories fifteen years ago was Grant’s cousin. Killed randomly at a party. I lost contact w/ my best bud from primary as we went to secondary & bumped into him during 6th Form, he’d just gotten out of prison for dealing. I have had a recurring nightmare since...
... we were teenagers that Grant had been stabbed because people we knew got mugged at knifepoint on the way home from school/on the bus/round the estate. The 
crew spin it as a race issue or an immigration issue, from what we saw it’s a poverty issue, an opportunity issue...
crew spin it as a race issue or an immigration issue, from what we saw it’s a poverty issue, an opportunity issue...
... and a fear issue. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the day the plod came to my school with a knife arch & the lad I sat next to for yeeeears in tutor time turned around and went the other way to hide a knife he’d been carrying. He was & still is I beat a lovely guy.
This was all the early 2000s - 2010s when Trident & knife crime were constantly in the press & hoodies & chavs were the hot topics. Being white & a girl I’m really aware of the privilege I had. The closest scrape I ever had was being beaten up a bit on the way home & having...
... a bit of my hair set on fire as I walked home cos I didn’t look like I was from the area.
