African 'rite of passage' to cut black crime


Black youths are being urged to go through an African-style 'rite of passage' to help tackle high levels of crime and underachievement.

The role-model training programme offers disillusioned black youngsters a support system based on an African cultural tradition which aims to help youths develop into responsible young adults.

The rites of passage programme will be run by 'elders' or mentors, according to the Afro-Caribbean organisation, Institute for Rites of Passage UK.

Its founder, Glenor Roberts, said similar programmes already operate successfully in America. He added: 'Black crime, gang culture and black underachievement is a direct consequence of missing out on this transition from adolescence to adulthood.

'Basically, many black people are still behaving like adolescents and are simply not in touch with the responsibilities of adulthood.'

The programme, which also trains black adults as mentors, includes life skills and economic, social and moral competency skills.

The organisation said that the consequences of black economic underachievement costs Britain nearly £1billion per year.

Beverly Davis, spokeswoman for the institute, said: 'The current escalation of gang murders, gun crime and knife attacks demonstrates that all the notable efforts of the police, the politicians and even community groups are not working. Something more radical needs to be tried.'

African 'rite of passage' to cut black crime | Metro.co.uk

rite of passage. my people go through one, called mize. dunno what the word means but it has no conection to the Jewish rite, unless you want to start with the black jew white jew debate. what's a Jew anyway?

the main function of the rite is to uproot the kid's emotional anchourage away from his family and into the wider community.

done properly, that crossover turns any kid into a responsible man.

it will work for some kids, though I doubt non-circumcizing Africans will agree to have their children do that stuff, or will it not include the skin cutting aspect ... mere tuition? how do you expect to make such a dramatic turn in personality without physical marking?

painful, memorable marking... in a place where they will cuss someone out for the rest of their lives.

lol...

I suspect the people who came up with this idea giving examples of success in America do not know how deeply the filthy establishmentarian hand is involved in the messing up of the minds of our kids out here... that problem ishould get priority, otherwise the whole thing simply will not work.

This is already taking place in the UK


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to "cut" black crime?

checked the website out.

keep up the good work.