Yes, readers, you read that headline correctly. And here’s why:

HAVE we gone mad? A few drunk Sudanese louts bash a policeman yesterday and we carry on as if we’ve never seen such savagery on our streets.

Never, bellow the talkback callers to an eager ear, until we let in these uncivilised Africans.

With all due respect, Mr Talkback Caller, you are an idiot. We’ve got thugs of all colours—white in particular—now punching police and anyone else they find, and the Sudanese aren’t the worst of them.

While you were on the phone panicking about a few Africans, 50 extra police were this very week deployed into the city to deal with the grim fact that scores more people are getting bashed in the heart of our state’s capital, and not by Africans. Panic about that, sir.

And panic, too, about two other scary things we haven’t been short of lately: drunks and underparented children. Both of which, I suspect, have contributed to an alarming rise in violence—and a crime rate in Victoria that’s worse these past few years than anything seen since 1934.

Take the half a dozen white beer-brains at a Mornington Peninsula caravan park, who an hour after the Sudanese scuffle were pushing around police sent to shush them, and had to be sobered up with pepper spray and a trip for three to the cells.

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