By©Muhammad Haque
1220 Hrs GMT
London
Monday 2 June 2008
The poverty that dominates the evidence about the East End of London has been in the main CREATED poverty. As all poverty is. But in the case of inner city East End of London, POVERTY HAS BEEN CREATED.
As poverty is about human beings, the human beings that make up the community in ordinary East End have been treated by the controlling forces in the economy with contempt.
The result has been that in the 'schools' and other 'institutions of education', there has been DEFICIT EDUCATION. Rather than positive education, the schools in Tower Hamlets have been the sources of DEFICIT education. In other words, they have ADDED to the negative human p[profiles of the vast majority of their 'students' across DECADES.
This has created the mainly underachieving, under-schooled, non-educated parts in the population that has been also denied the access to activities that would provide decent sustained incomes...
Like the man, a Bangladeshi one, who has been seen to be asking for money from passers-by on the Whitechapel Road... Those who know him also know his age and his history... He is known to spend the money on alcohol...
A more stark reality would be hard to imagine in the East End...
Why?
Because everyone knows that alcoholism is a road to self destruction... And the destruction of all around the person......
And everyone also knows that 'culturally, Bangladeshis are a million miles away from anything to do with alcohol'.
Or are they ?
And how could Bangladeshis get to be alcoholics in the East End of London? Or in any other part of London or the UK!!!
This is the question that is linked with our examination of the many ';benefits' that the pluggers of Crossrail hoe,attacks peddle....
They say that 'Crossrail would bring benefits to the East End'.
They don't mean benefits that are rationally described...
They mean distorted benefits. In fact they mean deficits that destroy the person. The community...
[To be continued]
