{"id":49196,"date":"2012-07-23T08:08:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T08:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=49196"},"modified":"2017-11-20T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T11:09:25","slug":"this-is-how-racism-takes-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/this-is-how-racism-takes-root\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is How Racism Takes Root"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/josephharker\" rel=\"author\">Joseph Harker<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The different ways the media covered two cases of men grooming children for sex show how shockingly easy it is to demonise a whole community<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>By now surely everyone knows the case of the eight men convicted of picking vulnerable underage girls off the streets, then plying them with drink and drugs before having sex with them. A shocking story. But maybe you haven&#8217;t heard. Because these sex assaults did not take place in Rochdale, where a\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2012\/may\/09\/rochdale-gang-jailed-sexually-exploiting\">similar story led the news for days in May<\/a>, but in Derby earlier this month. Fifteen girls aged 13 to 15, many of them in care, were preyed on by the men. And though they were not working as a gang, their methods were similar \u2013 often targeting\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Children\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/children\">children<\/a>\u00a0in care and luring them with, among other things, cuddly toys. But this time, of the eight predators, seven were white, not Asian. 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