‘White Community’ must confront child abuse!

Yesterday when I read Joseph Harker’s article in the Guardian, demanding the ‘White Community’, confront a pernicious, hidden, and long standing paedophilia, I thought this would unleash the ‘dogs of hell’, upon him. After all it was a blanket accusation arguing that White society has largely ignored the cries of young children when they have accussed carers, celebrities and others in positions of power of serious sexual abuse.

Harker highlights in particular the recent case of Stuart Hall, the BBC presenter, the North Wales care homes, and the cases surrounding the Jimmy Saville investigation.

Actually, Harker’s target is not really ‘White society’s collective inability to address child abuse, important as that is. Harker’s main target is the hypocrisy that blames the whole of the Muslim community when paedophile gang members have been from those communities.

Harker’s contribution is essentially about language, and how shocking and disturbing incidents can be used to demonise, and criminalise minority communities. His piece is full of irony, he has used the language of the oppressor, but has replaced ‘Muslim, or Black’, for ‘White. The affect is shocking, but Harker wants White society to see how we feel. Harker, like many of us are aware that whether its paedophiles, rioters or city fraudsters the racial labelling only occurs when the perpetrators are not white.

How can that be right!

Here's a snippet of the Harker's article:

Every day across Britain, it seems, there's a new and horrific revelation of sexual abuse: last week we had the guilty plea of veteran TV presenter Stuart Hall, who confessed to 14 cases of indecent assault against 13 girls, the youngest only nine years old.

Days earlier the possible scale of child abuse in north Wales children's homes was revealed. We now know there were 140 allegations of historical abuse between 1963 and 1992. A total of 84 suspected offenders have been named, and it's claimed the abuse took place across 18 children's homes.

But after the shock has subsided and we have time to reflect on these revolting crimes, the main question in most reasonable people's minds must surely be: what is it about white people that makes them do this?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/06/sexual-abuse-in-white-community

Thank you for your contribution Joseph.

Simon Woolley