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Young people need to find their confidence and lack the sense that the United Kingdom also

In the months after the riots this summer, I interviewed young black men who participated in riots in the Guardian and LSE is reading riots project. I also talked to friends and colleagues of Caribbean and African. The consensus was that vital community resource - care, support, unity and empathy - have been revitalized by the events of the summer. The unrest has led to closer to the black community.

applies to the question of the extent to which the British black community has worked as a network of self-support in recent decades. However, after disruption of the landscape that had a strong sense of solidarity. Discussion between individual members of the community is becoming more and more towards self-help, support for children who have been traditionally in the education system and the use of the riots as a springboard to better things.

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Paulina Pearce, a radical of chaos in the streets of Hackney, in August, resonated strongly, showing opportunism fool. And it was not the only one to speak. Since the looting began in Tottenham, black parents I talked to made sure that their children knew he was not a legitimate means to achieve what they wanted. There is a tacit understanding that, as the eyes of the police against black people than ever before, black is also looking at each other.

But at the same time a black community more united and self, can obviously be seen as a positive thing for Britain, it is feared that this may also mean "close ranks" the isolation of a multicultural UK. This could damage race relations - especially between black and white communities - that took decades to build

In the 1970s, when black men and women have been systematically attacked or professional and social discrimination, many have been removed effectively, a reaction that informed the subsequent generations. During the last 30-40 years, multiculturalism, anti-discrimination and equal opportunities have achieved greater integration and eliminates many problems associated with the formation of ghettos and segregation.

These words alarm me. Personally, I was always in English and this is my country. In discussions with fellow black writer, the conclusion was that it came from my sense of entitlement and confidence not only inherited my mother's white English, but an understanding of history, a privileged upbringing and sensitivity Windrush generation elderly parents and grandparents who came here with a sense of purpose, belonging and the desire to contribute to Britain.

This confidence and belonging has left many young black men today. Increasingly, their influences are less of a sense of post-colonial Britain as the homeland of the Commonwealth and the United States a sense of influence-culture against the rejection of the system that marginalizes: sociopolitical tropes found in rap and grime music.

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