The racial attacks on Steven Lawrence were recently brought
into the news recently. Because of new technology discovering that Gary Dobson
and David Norris, were guilty of the murder of the black teenager Steven
Lawrence. The evidence they found was; Gary Dobson’s bomber jacket had traces
of Steven Lawrence’s blood on it; also inside the jacket there were fibres from
the teenagers clothes he was wearing on the night of the attack, Blood flakes
of the young teenager were found on a ten pence coin in the pocket of the
killer’s jacket; David Norris’ trousers were examined for blood but none was
found. But soon after, forensic scientists examined the trousers a second time
and yet again there were no traces of blood. But this time there were 2 pieces
of 1mm long hairs that matched the DNA of Steven Lawrence.
This goes against Jesus’ teaching of “Love thy neighbour”. As a racial attack is hardly loving your
neighbour. What really makes me angry about this story is that Steven Lawrence
Couldn’t help the opinion people had about the colour of his skin. He was born
with it, there’s nothing he could do about it. So what if someone has a
different skin colour to you, it doesn’t affect you in any way, so get on with
life. Everybody’s different.
George D says: You are right no one should be prejudged because of the colour of their skin or religion, they should except them for who they are. This was a senseless killing of an innocent man who had done nothing wrong,just by being
ReplyDeletein the wrong place at the wrong time.I agree with your comments.