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Anthony Weekes AKA Romantic Juggler
Length:1.10 mins
Date:4 Feb 2003
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| |  | | | | Title: Gun Culture
Anthony says gangster rap music is behind the rise in gun crime in inner city Manchester. As a DJ on a community radio station broadcasting to Moss Side, Hulme and Longsite he bans bad language and gun music. He blames American pop artistes for driving communities - and sometimes families - apart.
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Filming Tips | | | | | | | |  | | | | Jason says:
Coming from a DJ, blaming music for the problems of Gun Crime to me is very disturbing. So he doesn't play music with bad language on his shows. So what? Other stations and even other shows on his station will. It is not the music that is behind Gun culture, it is the people themselves. Can Anthony really sit there and say, "yes, they heard So Solid, so they went out and got a gun and shot someone"? Be real. Pointing the finger at music and American pop artists is not the solution to this problem. You can even take off all gangsta rap and other music with bad language. Will that stop crime too? No. It is the people in these gangs, peer pressure, family values and social deprevation that are among the areas which need blaming. It's easy to ask the question how to stop gangs. But you need the resources and the capabilities to manage that solution and clearly, our government isn't either prepared too, or cannot afford to provide such resources. Solutions such as the gun amnesty, which I think was a success, is needed more. There's too much talk in our government and not enough action. Legalising or reducing the class of certain drugs is another positive step. This issue has already been raised before but could prove to be a major breakthrough with these gangs. They have nothing to sell if drugs were legalised. I guess the depths of such a solution is something this Government cannot fathom. | | | | | |
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