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we-adora-mamora! Well articulated, couldn't have put it better. I had hoped peoples attitudes would have been more positive or constructive instead of showing such prejudiced and ignorant views that would be more understandable in the countryside.I still love east dulwich!

a great post Marmora and getting the kudos it deserved


I've taken the postcode/wall/them posts with a pinch of salt as I think a whole bunch of views (some tongue in cheek, some looking for a rise, some possibly genuine) have been conflated, but as clear a line in the sand that is a splendid effort


Again, my thoughts go to the family involved, but for the rest of us... it's one thing to feel fear, to be aware of it and admit it. It's another thing to give in to it....


Today I changed nothing - walked back via parts of Peckham and ED on the way home. Absolutely fine. And for pretty much every one of us that is how life will continue

As Sean points out, right or wrong, and maybe on this particular thread ,tastlessly, there are a lot of posters who look for a bite plus maintain a bit of ongoing banter...it's not quite the bed of elitist Nazi's that you worthy types believe...

well said we-all-adore-mamora.......:))


this incident happened at the end of my road but hey i ain't goin nowhere! these things happen, deal with it!


those who are planning to leave.... see ya! might free up a few properties round here!

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> @ Felicity

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> yes we do... not a huge number to be fair. And

> agreed


Thanks Sean. Loads of my friends in ED are black but many forum-ites seem to have a vision of ED being quite white and a bizarre implication that all the black people live in Peckham and shoot each other while the whites live in ED and shop for free-range meat and expensive cheeses. Not so.

What i don't get is why so many people on this thread are questioning why and how this sort of thing can happen here.


We live in London. We live in SE London. Just because we have a Foxtons, Cafe Nero, popular "village" butchers and fishmongers, and 30 something mothers pushing kids round in Bugaboos does not make this part of London immune to, well, London.


Anyone wondering how this can happen here is naive, probably hasn't lived here for long, and probably isn't from London born and bred. Frankly, considering where we live, i'm surprised this sort of thing doesn't happen more often.


Condolences to this kid and his family, if any of them are reading this.

Well said Marmora. (Applauds)


I logged on to this site this morning, as the shooting is such a sad, horrible local event, and I knew it would be discussed. Quite frankly I was appalled at many of the comments made, (and even more appalled at the "we're only joking - it's mordant humour, get over it." saddo excuses that were used to slap any criticism down).


Do you ED's have any idea of how the general tone of this thread comes across? I know that the media read it. Do you really want to be known as sneery, racist, aspiring, East Dulwichites? Cos (despite many attempts from decent types to keep things in perspective) that's how it is coming across. Loud and clear.


And not for the first time, which is why I very rarely post on here.


Oh, and yes I am black. As black as your blackest nightmare. You are making this excellent Forum come across as really mean spirited and racist, which is deeply sad - but is just a fact of life. Like this awful shooting.

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