The Sun says Beat Race Hate

A front page with children holding up placards depicting terms of racial abuse would until a few weeks ago have met with widespread condemnation.Tis morning,however the Sun is using this strong language to launch a condemnation of racist abuse.

The Sun says

OUR top story today tells you all you need to know about racism in Britain today.
All of these youngsters from different backgrounds have to put up with labels which offend.
Some may be intended as light-hearted playground stuff. But it’s bigotry all the same.

All the children featured in the photograph have a story to tell

REISS WALLACE, of London, 15 when pictured, has been called “Nigger”, from Latin niger, meaning black. He says: The most painful thing is when my friends and I are targeted by grown-ups.When you’re walking down the street and a car pulls up and a man shouts out “Nigger” that’s hard to take. I get that and “black b*****d”.The thing to do is ignore it. But it does make you angry.

On the same day its Great rival the Mirror carries an exclusive interview with the person embroiled in this controversy,Shilpa Shetty,who is shown by the paper the footage of Big Brother.It describes how:

as the film begins, her smile is replaced first by a look of bewilderment - then openmouthed horror and disgust.
She winces as ringleader Jade Goody, who yesterday booked into London's Priory clinic suffering from depression, spews out a stream of four-letter abuse during the now infamous bust-up over who used the house's Oxo cubes.
And as she watches the row escalate from a squabble about food to a ferocious personal assault, Shilpa squirms in her chair - pulling her knees to her chest and wrapping her arms around herself in a comforting gesture.
Shilpa says: "Watching this now, I can understand why people complained so much. It isn't just one or two attacks - it's incessant. I still can't figure out what I did wrong."

There is no doubt that the last couple of days have seen an increase in racial tensions in the media.Yesterday's coverage of the survey into Muslim attitudes in papers such as the Telegraph

Young, British Muslims 'getting more radical'

Its alarmist message that 40% want to live under Sharia law and one in eight admire Al Qaeda.

This morning all the papers are reporting David Cameron's comments.Apologies to the Telegraph for using it again to illustrate,

Cameron: Britain must face down extremists