Racism and the London Riots

I have been following the riots in London that’s spread throughout the rest of the UK now and I found a number of interesting materials on the web on how Black Culture has been spoken about by journalists on television and in newspapers. This troubled me because I don’t even think that the riots really originated from a racial issue between white and non-whites but it was based on the issue of class in the UK. I found this interesting as to how this came about and why media outlets choose to portray minority groups in that way during a significant event. Why not instead focus on the root of the problem that actually caused this disorder….

References
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/15/david-starkey-newsinght-race-remarks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAGTE_RGN4c