Racist Media?

Racist Media?

On Thursday the sixteenth of august I went on my break in work and was disappointed to find I had forgotten to put a book in my bag and the only thing I could read was The Sun, I should have just left it alone but with nothing better to do I began to flick through the pages. I was only really looking at the headlines until I came across an article written by Rod Liddle with the headline “Salute MP Fighting Stone Age beliefs”. Obviously it drew my attention so I read the whole thing finding myself more appalled the further I got through it. Basically it was about Africans that practise Voodoo and abuse children, gleefully he tells “there have been 83 cases over the last 10 years and many could have been stopped but for the old bill treading a little to carefully, afraid they might offend some one.” He then chose to pick out cases that involved Africans or Pakistanis clearly showing that your little white children aren’t safe as long as they are on our shores. Apparently “all of these vile practises need to be stamped out and the Neanderthal beliefs challenged”.           
            After reading this I felt so dirty that I threw the paper in the bin in an attempt to save some poor soul I work with having the misfortune to read this or worse still believing it and have spent a little time since researching child abuse cases, trust me when I tell you there are much better ways to spend your time.      
         Seen as Liddle brought up Neanderthal beliefs I thought I would like to start with the Catholic Church, I know how original is it to call a priest a peado however it has to be done. In February of this year (2012)  a Senior Cardinal of the Catholic church revealed that in the past ten years 4,000, let me say it again 4,000 cases of child abuse committed by CATHOLIC PRIESTS have been investigated.    Cardinal Levada, who is head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, went on to describe the figure as a 'dramatic increase'. Yet nobody calls for Catholicism outlawed. However I don’t want to only talk about priest as that would be unfaier. Christian parents have been convicted for beating their own children to death with crucifixes, locked them in cages and starved them. If that isn’t enough what about Christian parents that warp their own kids minds, can you imagine growing up in a fundamentalist Christian household house hold if you were homosexual or worse still Atheist, how many people under that kind of pressure have grown up hating themselves or simply taken their own lives. Every one knows all this already  though,don’t they, even if it’s only relatively recently that these matters stopped being “taken care of” internally and the perpetrators made to pay for their sins rather than simply given a slap on the wrist and moved on to another trusting community. Just to be clear I am not just priest bashing here, does anybody need reminding about Ian Huntley, baby p, the murder of James Bulger, Fred West, Mary Bell… I can keep going if needs be but I really would rather stop. By Liddles his own words should these case not be considered an anomaly and all white people are “human filth” (just to be clear that quote wasn’t taken from the article I am writing about, it came from an article he wrote for his Spectator blog in 2009) and he continued with “The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African-Caribbean community. Of course, in return, we have rap music, goat curry and a far more vibrant and diverse understanding of cultures which were once alien to us. For which, many thanks”. An interesting side not on that quote is that thanks to a number of complaints Liddle became the first journalist to have the contents of his blog censured because he couldn’t back up his claim with statistics, shocking. Even if every word he said was true I believe that unless you are going to at least try and objectively explain the reasons behind this or solutions to the problem you are doing nothing more than inciting racial hatred, which I thought was a criminal offence according to the Incitement of Racial Hatred - Sections 17-29 Public Order Act 1986, which by the way carry the maximum penalty of seven years in prison, just a thought. How this story made t into a national newspaper is beyond me but it just tells you everything you need to know about the feelings of the editors that allowed this to be printed thinking it was a fair and unbiased piece of journalism. If you agree with Liddle that is your right but I urge you to read about the worlds history before you take the word of a BNP member as fact because whether you like it or not we are all the same and this type of thinking only holds the entire species back, so how about we sort our selves out and move forward to make every ones life better or maybe I’m wrong and you can go back to eating your curry while you moan incessantly about those damn immigrants taking over “your” country. Child abuse is just wrong no matter who's doing the abusing and to turn it into a racial issue is just illogical, offensive and dangerous and I would rather not read the opinions of sombody that has proved themselves to be a bigot time and again, save it for your BNP meetings Liddle.