The BBC is on the receiving end of a barrage of criticism after the release of a program to discuss the recent riots to the question: "Is there a problem with young black man?Speak speech program, sent internationally via the World Service, said the presenter Nuala McGovern his audience. "Many of you who came in contact with the BBC's fingers directly to young black men after seeing pictures of the riots, we ask, is it a problem with young black men?"
It provoked an angry reaction to online forums and voice, a news site for the black community in Britain.
They apologized to the BBC spokesperson said that "after" the choice of vocabulary was "too hard and could have been clearer."
But the spokesman added: "It was an attempt to discuss the responsible social attitude towards young black men, including if they had been wrongly accused of causing trouble."
Controversy follows ex ire after the BBC, initially referred to rioters as "demonstrators" rather than "criminals" and falsely accuse the commentator Darcus Dowe for participating in riots in the past.