Iam so pissed off with the ‘yuff’ using the word ‘ghetto’ to describe the environment that they find them selves in…there are no ghetto’s ( i.e. areas in which there is only one ethnic group in London ) ….I live in the heart of the infamous north Peckham and it’s not a ghetto. There are Chinese, Vietnamese, south Americans and whites here too. The ‘yuff’ only think it’s some extension of an American ghetto because that’s the only ‘culture; they’re exposed to. London ‘aint’ L.A. The ‘yuff’ on my street ( when they can string two words together in a coherent sentence WITHOUT using the word ye-get-me, use the ‘thug-life’ bravado as a shield to disguise the real misery of their lives; single or in many cases no parents who are themselves children, still the feelings of alienation within a country that still thinks of them as the ‘other’. And of course the glass ceiling.

The government has just within the last few years started pumping millions within these areas that desperately needed the money 15 years ago…you forget that the teenagers of today come form the parents of the early nineties and late eighties…