![]() Surely this serves to challenge this mind set. I happened to tune in to The Big Question last Sunday morning, and one of the topics that came up was the inexplicable question of whether white people could ever be victims of racism? Certain (non white, funnily enough) audience members had some pretty jaw dropping reasons why they couldn't, but this case certainly served to raise the bar on the issue, with these poor, emotionally neglected, not terribly well educated young girls being targeted for what appeared to be cultural reasons by large groups of Asian men, who saw them as inferior because of the way they behaved and their apparent lack of values. But while they worked well to eliminate much of the racism around, there have been instances where these new mind sets were terribly subverted, especially by those in charge, where the protective wall of anti racism was abused by those it was meant to protect, never more horrifically than in Rochdale and several other Yorkshire towns, which this drama delves into. ![]() In order to achieve the fairly cohesive multicultural society we live in today, many laws were passed in order to prevent discrimination and prejudice based on religious, racial, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, which were pretty successful in their aims and formed a defensive, concrete wall around those who held on to such negative attitudes and their freedom to employ them in any capacity. Despite years of concerns being raised by many, including health care worker Sara Rowbotham (Maxine Peake), a series of institutional failings by police, social workers and local authorities led to the perpetrators being allowed to get away with it for years, even with one trial collapsing due to lack of evidence, before a successful trial went ahead. STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning In the Yorkshire town of Rochdale, a series of girls with chaotic home lives were sexually abused over a number of years by a group of Pakistani men who operated from a takeaway store in the city, but were never challenged by those in authority for fear of being branded racist.
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