{"id":677,"date":"2006-05-31T15:41:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/31\/2001_riots_fuelled_by_racist_propaganda"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:05:00","slug":"2001_riots_fuelled_by_racist_propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/31\/2001_riots_fuelled_by_racist_propaganda","title":{"rendered":"2001 riots &#8220;fuelled by racist propaganda&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Report says riots product of racist propaganda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/race\/story\/0,,1786816,00.html\">Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Report says riots product of racist propaganda<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Burnley race riots of 2001 were fuelled by racists exploiting the perceived imbalances in council spending on different communities, according to a report published today.<br \/>\nThe strongly-worded document, Burnley &#8211; the Real Story, admits &quot;there is a serious problem of racism in Burnley&quot;.<br \/>\nIt cites segregated schooling, unemployment and poor civic pride among the underlying causes of division in the Lancashire town.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &quot;segregated&quot; schools in question being bad secular state schools which just happened to be in racially divided catchment areas, not well-funded faith schools, but doubtless this will be lost on the &quot;mix all the kids up together and let them not hear of religion&quot; brigade &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA controversial &quot;positive regeneration&quot; scheme, that involved spending government funds on an area with a large Asian population, &quot;ironically contributed to social fragmentation by increasing neighbourhood rivalries,&quot; the report says.<br \/>\n<strong>&quot;Racists latched on to and encouraged the resentment&quot;<\/strong> about the decision, it adds.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Report says riots product of racist propaganda The Burnley race riots of 2001 were fuelled by racists exploiting the perceived imbalances in council spending on different communities, according&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-far_right"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-aV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42429,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/42429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}