Really ? All the coverage I saw/read mentioned it , often in the headline or first paragraph , must be some strange media you are viewing .
Well, I had radio 4 on on Sunday morning and after listening for an hour I had managed to piece together that some sort of disturbance had happened and that was it. there was no mention of "The black community think that a black girl was raped by Pakistani men and gangs of black and asian youths were kicking the bejesus out of each other."

And also asian against asian and black against black , look at news from the past 5 years from Lozells and surrounding areas (or even further bach if you wish). Gang warfare where what road/estate you live on is just as "important" as your ethnicty , where you drink , where you eat or what clubs you go to
That this may ALSO happen does not detract from the fact that saturday's riot was on racial grounds.

Oh, and on the great Brum debate, Brum is all right, IMHO. Silly accent though.