Glasgow - July 2014
The Commonwealth Games
Another Propaganda Opportunity for Multi-cultural Britain
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| This patriotic image does not reflect the 'international and multi-cultural' undercurrent behind the media coverage of the Commonwealth Games. |
At every opportunity the national media have used coverage of the Commonwealth Games as a show-case for multi-culturalism. In particular the BBC, both on television and on radio, have rattled on and on about 'Britain's cultural diversity' and have pushed non-white competitors to the forefront of interviews and live coverage of the games.
At every possible opportunity non-white 'British' athletes have been given air time to present themselves as the standard-bearers of 'British sport' in the 21st Century, this has been especially true for those who are of mixed race.
The national media use these international sporting events to present the image of many nations, many races, nationalities and cultures coming together in the pursuit of sporting excellence.
Then in the same vein presenting the great racial and cultural harmony of the games between nations being reflected in the make-up of the British sporting teams - the same cultural and racial diversity in sporting harmony in miniature.
Anyone watching the games in Glasgow will realise that this is especially true for team England, where non-white immigration has had the greatest impact, but the trend is starting to creep into team Scotland.
Meanwhile Another 'Multi-cultural' Feel-Good Story Bites the Dust......
The Rosdeep Adekoya Murder Trial
When the appeal went out in Fife for public help in finding a missing Asian child Mikaeel Kular, the media went into overdrive presenting the sight of hundreds of local volunteers from 'all communities' turning out to search for the missing little boy. Although there was great concern for the welfare of the child, missing from home during a period of very cold weather, the story presented to the national media was that of a multi-cultural community working together to find a lost child.
Here was the great story of community diversity working in collective harmony, the good Scots folk of Fife turning out in great numbers to search for an Asian boy. Local people supporting the unhappy mother Rosdeep Adekoya and her parents who lived in Kirkcaldy.
Race and ethnicity was not an issue - here was a multi-cultural community in action for the common good.
Unfortunately this feel-good story was not reality. At the high court in Edinburgh the boy's mother Rosdeep Adekoya has admitted to the killing of her own son by repeatedly beating him until he died of his injuries at her home in Fife, then hiding the body in woods near her mother's home in Kirkcaldy.
All those kind souls searching for the missing child were acting on a lie.
Now as the court case draws to a close the bitter truth is that unlike the initial press story, Rosdeep Adekoya was not a caring mother. The children were known to social services in Fife and Edinburgh and had temporarily been taken into care in the past.
The mother lived a "chaotic lifestyle" in the words of one Scottish commentator. She had turned her back on her own culture and lived a decadent lifestyle; drugs, alcohol and 'clubbing'.
An Edinburgh newspaper has now published photographs of Rosdeep Adekoya in the company of known drug-dealers and was reported to have locked her children in the house alone while she spent the night out till early next day.
If Rosdeep Adekoya is an example of the new culturally diverse Scotland - God Help us all.
The national media use these international sporting events to present the image of many nations, many races, nationalities and cultures coming together in the pursuit of sporting excellence.
Then in the same vein presenting the great racial and cultural harmony of the games between nations being reflected in the make-up of the British sporting teams - the same cultural and racial diversity in sporting harmony in miniature.
Anyone watching the games in Glasgow will realise that this is especially true for team England, where non-white immigration has had the greatest impact, but the trend is starting to creep into team Scotland.
Meanwhile Another 'Multi-cultural' Feel-Good Story Bites the Dust......
The Rosdeep Adekoya Murder Trial
When the appeal went out in Fife for public help in finding a missing Asian child Mikaeel Kular, the media went into overdrive presenting the sight of hundreds of local volunteers from 'all communities' turning out to search for the missing little boy. Although there was great concern for the welfare of the child, missing from home during a period of very cold weather, the story presented to the national media was that of a multi-cultural community working together to find a lost child.
Here was the great story of community diversity working in collective harmony, the good Scots folk of Fife turning out in great numbers to search for an Asian boy. Local people supporting the unhappy mother Rosdeep Adekoya and her parents who lived in Kirkcaldy.
Race and ethnicity was not an issue - here was a multi-cultural community in action for the common good.
Unfortunately this feel-good story was not reality. At the high court in Edinburgh the boy's mother Rosdeep Adekoya has admitted to the killing of her own son by repeatedly beating him until he died of his injuries at her home in Fife, then hiding the body in woods near her mother's home in Kirkcaldy.
All those kind souls searching for the missing child were acting on a lie.
Now as the court case draws to a close the bitter truth is that unlike the initial press story, Rosdeep Adekoya was not a caring mother. The children were known to social services in Fife and Edinburgh and had temporarily been taken into care in the past.
The mother lived a "chaotic lifestyle" in the words of one Scottish commentator. She had turned her back on her own culture and lived a decadent lifestyle; drugs, alcohol and 'clubbing'.
An Edinburgh newspaper has now published photographs of Rosdeep Adekoya in the company of known drug-dealers and was reported to have locked her children in the house alone while she spent the night out till early next day.
If Rosdeep Adekoya is an example of the new culturally diverse Scotland - God Help us all.
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