An Answer to “The hurl was ours”: why the article needs to do rather more than simply shift culpability…

The Soapbox piece “The hurl was ours” written by Sara Morrison, put up on Saturday night, sets out to present an alternative advocacy for the working-class community of east Belfast through a significant qualification on the racist riots of this last week. It identifies her personal credentials to authorativly speak on this: I’ve lived in Belfast most of my life; I’m writing this listening to helicopters overhead for a second day. I know these streets, and I know these communities, ......