Why I'll Never Write Off The White Working Class, Even Those Who Are Racist

It's a Life or Death Matter

It's approaching a year since three primary school aged girls were brutally killed and eight others injured in Southport. We didn't have long to feel the tragedy of it as a country before misinformation flooded social media and messaging sites like Signal and Telegram.

Within a matter of hours streets were ablaze, obscuring that three sets of parents, the girls’ friends, teachers and we as a society were in mourning.

In an essay called, Notes on the House of Bondage, the author James Baldwin wrote, 'The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.'

So why weren't we given time to mourn these three children?