These are just some of the hundreds of examples of racial violence and lawlessness in more than 80 cities around the country as documented in my book: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America.
Thomas Sowell said : ”Reading Colin Flaherty’s book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities.” – National Review.
These are just some of the hundreds of examples of racial violence and lawlessness in more than 80 cities around the country as documented in my book: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America.
Thomas Sowell said : ”Reading Colin Flaherty’s book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities.” – National Review.
A smattering of black mob violence from around the country.
A preview of an article. Links and video below.
By Colin Flaherty
By Colin Flaherty
Large scale black mob violence is now a regular feature of life in many American cities.
Not just places like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Boston and Washington, D.C.
But smaller cities as well. Place like Irondequoit, New York. Grandview, Missouri. Peoria. Springfield.
Big or small, they share this: Local media is loathe to report it.
A smattering from the first two weeks of September:
In Kansas City, hundreds of black people created mayhem and violence last Saturday night at the Country Club Plaza, part of an upscale shopping district. Mounted police and members of the SWAT team used pepper spray to subdue and disburse the crowd.
Tweeting from the scene, local NBC reporter Garrett Haake said “Police and teens tell me after a movie got out, a large group came here to avoid the curfew and a fight broke out. Police arrived and sprayed.”
Assaults, robberies, vandalism, broken jaws, property destruction and other mayhem are a “perennial problem” at the Plaza, says one Kansas City TV station.
For three years, city officials have talked and talked and talked about how to stop these periodic outbursts of black mob violence. Some want a curfew. Earlier this summer, black city council members said curfews are racist because they target black people — though most news accounts refer to the lawbreakers as “teens.”
Former Kansas city mayor — and current congressman — Emanuel Cleaver said curfews don’t work: “All we are going to do is make a lot of black kids angry and they are going to take out their anger somewhere else.”
No one was arrested.
The night before in Irondequoit, New York, a suburb of Rochester, police had to close down a movie theater after 400 to 500 black people started fighting inside and outside a showing of the movie Insidious, Chapter 2.
“I saw police officers chasing kids, as we were pulling out of the parking lot to leave we saw police officer knock kids to the ground and one police officer was batoning kids,” said Alton Johnson to Rochester YNN.
Lt. Jonna Izzo explained it all to News 8: “They have pent up energy from being scared in the movie theater and they come out and they don’t know what to do with that energy.”
Some residents said it was strange that anyone could blame a large scale act of violence and mayhem on a movie. Other said it had nothing to with the movie: That mall and others in Irondequoit have been plagued by black mob violence for years:
“So it’s not the first time and won’t be the last !!,” said David Sevor at the web site for WHAM TV news. “It’s sad these young teenagers don’t know how to behave out in public.”
Mike Alpaha was more explicit:
It’s been a problem that has been escalating for a long time. White people are the real problem! Your all too scared to speak up and talk about the real problem!
These young black kids are out of control and have no discipline in the home. They have no respect for anyone (especially white people). But everyone is scared of being called a racist for telling it how it is.
I’m not a racist, but I can say that the inner city black youth are out of control and only getting worse!
Four police departments from neighboring jurisdictions assisted. City officials called the bus company, which returned the rioters to Rochester.
No one was arrested.
That same night in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a large crowd of black people were fighting. When it was over, one man was lying in the street, stabbed. He is in critical condition. No one was arrested.
That same night in Flint, Michigan, a local police scanner news service reported: “Officer on location with a large crowd and requesting assistance for a fight that has broken out.”
A Facebook entry picked up the story, even if this event was too common pace in Flint for the paper to report it: “I picked my daughter up with her friends,” said Marlena Henson Haubenstricker “First time…never again! These kids now days don’t know how to act. I watched yes 200 kids run out of the building into the parking lot acting wild and crazy because there was a fight!”
Everyone involved was black. Earlier this year, the FBI named Flint the most violent large city in America.
Two nights before in Indianapolis, Wednesday, police arrived at a black neighborhood to find 80 people fighting in the street, “some of whom wielded baseball bats.” The Indianapolis Star puts on its best antiseptic face:
The brawl is among a number of Indianapolis incidents in which a verbal spat among adolescents or young adults has escalated into violence among older adults.
Over the last three years, downtown Indianapolis has been the scene of dozens of cases of large scale black mob violence. Some connected to the Indiana Black Expo.
The Indy Star refuses to identify criminals by race. Which is frustrating for reader Rusty Johnson and others who wonder why the paper works so hard to refuse to identify a pattern of racial violence in that Midwestern city:
Ever come across a story and you just skip the reading and go straight to the comments? Paranoid by the fear that reading it might make you dumber? Where the comments make more sense? First one to post a link to the videos wins!
That same night in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the headline reads: “Police respond to another ‘riot-like’ fight among teens.” The Sentinel said 20 – 30 people carrying bats and tasers descended on a house to continue an earlier fight that day. “This comes two days after a large brawl was caught on camera along Rudy Road,” said the paper. The principal of the school insisted race had nothing to do with violence. And there were no gunshots. Neighbors — and video — report everyone was black. And several people insist guns were fired.
That same night in downtown New Haven, two people were shot and “multiple fights broke out” after a hip-hop night club closed.
“Violence to this degree is not typical,” said the NBC affiliate in New Haven.“But when it occurs in New Haven, it almost always stems from a venue that had promoted a hip-hop event.”
Despite the “non-typical” nature of the violence, police say they are increasing patrols there. And some residents are letting their actions do the talking.
Says the NBC affiliate: “Some who live in the area say they no longer feel safe walking the streets at night. “For the last year we’ve been looking to get out. We’ve been looking to move,” said Ashley, a New Haven resident.”
Everyone involved in the fights is black. New Haven has been the site of at least a dozen cases of black mob violence over the last year. Some high profile, as was the case when a mob of black people almost killed a downtown motorcycle mechanic when they stole his vehicle as he was riding it.
That same night near the campus of the University of California Berkeley, the Patch reports police responded to a large fight, where a “22-year-old man was assaulted by eight to 10 black males.”
One night before that, police found a large disorderly crowd 50 to 100 black people in Wilmington, Delaware after responding to a 911 call for gun shots near the downtown area. One person was arrested on guy charges after a witness identified him by his distinctive pink shirt.
Wilmington has been the scene of at least a dozen case of large scale black mob this summer. Many involving gun fire. Many involving large groups of black women. The News Journal reports everything except the race:
“Pastor Rev. Derrick Johnson said the incident is part of a disturbing trend that finds groups of teens, led by girls, traveling through Wilmington looking to assault their peers, sometimes boldly supported by their parents.
“So we have girls fighting girls, sanctioned by the parents,” said Johnson, pastor at Joshua Harvest Church. “I don’t know if it’s a psychopathic gene or what, but it’s totally unacceptable.”
The night before that in Chester, Pennsylvania, 100 black people were fighting with each other and police. Police arrested 10 people between the ages of 15 and 39 for charges disorderly conduct to aggravated assault on police.
“No one in the crowd was armed, but several officers were struck, kicked and punched while trying to break up the fight,” reported the Philly.com.
Columnist Stephanie Farr tried to get to the bottom of it: “When I called Chester Police Commissioner Joseph Bail Jr. today to ask about a fight in Chester last night that reportedly involved 100 people, his first response was “We’ve had bigger.”
On Sunday, September 8, a video shows nine black people invading the home of an 85-year old disabled Vietnam vet in Grandview Missouri. They threatened him with a gun. Then stole his antique gun collection, ammo, a cell phone and other valuables.
Two days later, they returned: Different people. Same result: They threatened the veteran. Stormed into his house. Stole. And left. All on video.
One person is in custody in connection with the robbery.
Late Saturday night, September 7, a large crowd of black people were fighting at a roller skating rink in Antioch, California when shots rang out. One person died. Two were wounded.
At another roller rink on the east side of Columbus, Ohio, police had to use mace to break up a large fight among black people.
A few days before that, September 4, a mob of black teens stormed a Jacksonville Taco Bell. On video.
“Some experts says this is a trend we can expect to see more of,” said the anchor for Action News in Jacksonville, as she talked over a video of 300 black people storming and looting a local Wal-Mart last summer. They had just come from a similar large scale violent event at a local party. Then the parking lot. Then the store.
In August, the same station reported that large groups of teenagers with bats and pipes and other weapons had been involved in at least three other attacks. All the suspects are black.
Jacksonville was also the site of large scale black mob violence over the Memorial Day weekend. Much of it on video.
“During the three-day holiday weekends, residents and business owners know that racial violence is a regular and unwelcome occurrence,” said Chuck White, of AM1600 WZNZ. “Business owners are asking for help from police before their businesses are ruined.”
On September 4, “officers responded to a large fight at Sheridan Park in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.” Fifteen to 20 black people were involved. Police shut down the park.
In the first week of the month, Cleveland experienced two attacks on gay people at the hands of black mobs. Both took place at the same bar. One crowd was about ten people. The other twenty. One attack was caught on video. The two attacks are part of a series of at least five attacks over the summer connected to Cocktails Cleveland.
The Cleveland area has been the site of at least a dozen other episodes of large scale black mob violence — some requiring dogs to bring under control.
The local paper describes the alleged rioters as “people behaving badly.” Much of the violence is also centered around Cleveland Heights. The headlines from earlier this year tell the story: “Large disorderly gatherings in Cleveland Heights require police intervention.”
The gatherings are black.
On September 1 in Saginaw, Michigan, “two people were shot outside a Saginaw nightclub after a large fight erupted early Sunday, Sept. 1, according to police,” said MLive.com. The shooters and the fighters are black. The club is located across the street from the police station.
Being gay is “about the worst thing you can be in black culture,” said Don Lemon, a gay, black news anchor at CNN.
Sometimes you see can see the antipathy in hip hop videos. Other times at the ballot box. Still other times black hostility towards gay people is expressed in the dozens and dozens of hyper-violent episodes of black mob violence against gay people. Some on video.
These crimes are a perfect storm of silence: Predators do not want to get caught. Victims do want to identify themselves as gay. And newspapers loathe reporting black mob violence.
Two recent cases within a week this month in Cleveland are representative.
Jared Fox is a Brooklyn teacher who returned in late August to his native Cleveland to visit family and friends — and a gay bar called Cocktails Cleveland located in a black neighborhood.
Police reports indicate that groups of black people had been hanging around the parking lot earlier that evening. And on other occasions.
But Fox did not know about any of that when he parked his car and was making his way to the lounge. Soon after, as he would later describe on YouTube, he realized he was in trouble:
I saw a group of youth on the same side of the street. So I crossed the street. My instincts and my experience with kids told me that kids in large groups are not up to any good. Especially on a side street in this part of Cleveland.
They charged and surrounded me. They asked what’s in my pockets. I said nothing. I’m broke.
They said ‘You are one of those broke faggots.’ Then I knew why they picked me. That I was an easy target.
Then they just started beating me. Ruptured my ear drum. Punched my glasses into my face. Stomped on me when I was on the ground. My ribs. My back.
They said ‘Give me your phone. Your wallet.’
I got up and started running. They tackled me again. This time they were stomping on my head. Calling me a faggot. And queer. They started to kick my face.
One of them said Do you want to die? Do you want to die?
I threw my phone And my wallet. ‘I told them my credit cards are in the back. My pin is 1234. Take it please its all I got.’
Eventually, Fox made his way to the bar, where employees called police.
Then the police came. Did I know these kids had been sitting there before? No.
I found out from the bartender that the cops had been called three times in the hour before I was attacked. These kids were sitting there waiting.
It wasn’t until I was attacked that someone came.
When the police officers came, Did they get out of their car? Did they ask to see the footage? No.
Nothing. They did nothing.
News accounts in straight and gay media were full of outrage and sympathy and calls for justice. And stories about how this had happened before.
Full of everything except one piece of truth. For that, we have to turn to the police reports for something local media would not say: The predators were black.
Some were wearing hoodies. Some even had masks. And this was not their only attack that night. A few weeks after the crime, local media published a video of the attack.
It is not uncommon for victims of racial violence, like Fox, to hesitate to describe the race of their attackers. Having been victimized once by an assault, many are reluctant to become victims again by being accused of racism. Some say identifying their attackers as black would be “too divisive.”
Cleveland media may be too squeamish to report the alleged perpetrators were black. But people who leave on-line comments are not.
This raises the ire of those who believe — despite exponentially higher rates of violence and crime among black people — this crime had nothing to do with race:
Said one poster at the New York Daily News: “I see a lot of you racist humps couldn’t wait to write your garbage About black ppl. OMG White folks have centuries of none sense killing and rape dating back 100 of years.”
Another pointed out that white people from the suburbs come to the neighborhood to buy drugs. Since they are guilty of crime as well, it is not fair to single out black people.
At YouTube, Hannah Lane offered a prediction: “It’s absolutely criminal; those men need to be caught & punished for their horrifying actions b/c THEY WILL DO IT AGAIN.”
And they did. Same place. One week later. This time to the manager, Rick Scardino. The police report describes the scene: Scardino was on the patio of Cocktails Cleveland when “10 young B/M (black males)” arrived on the other side of the fence.
They “began yelling ‘you faggots better get out of here. We don’t want you faggots around here.”
They were “throwing rocks over the fence at the victim and other patrons sitting on the patio.” Scardino and others chased the mob away. But they came back. This time with sticks and a broom handle. They found Scardino outside and threatened to sodomize him with the broom and “beat his faggot ass with this.”
Then they assaulted him. “I reached in my pockets for a can of Mace. A boy in a white shirt yelled, ’Faggot’s got a gun!’ and they scattered,” Scardino told Edgeonthenet.com.
Police arrested one suspect: a 13-year old black person. The manager of the bar says there were at least three other cases of mob violence prior to the attack on Fox.
All the suspects in all of the attacks are black. That was never reported in any daily paper or gay media outlet.
Cleveland is hardly alone. In the Chicago gay neighborhood of Streeterville, residents describe black mob on gay violence as an everyday fact of life. And as hard as the local papers try to not let people know the victims are gay and perpetrators are mobs of black people, sometimes the information gets out anyway. Even if by accident.
After a series of attacks on gay people in Streeterville in 2011 — including a black mob stabbing a gay man on video — Chicago Alderman Tom Tunney belled the cat when he spoke with the local ABC news affiliate:
“There tends to be large groups of minority youths on Halsted. Whether they are patronizing the businesses or not, it’s an area where they feel safe. It’s a balancing act that we’re tying to make it safe for everyone.”
If anything it has gotten worse since then. At least one group has a Facebook page to to fight the violence. But more and more people are saying it has been happening too often, for too long, for them to stay in that neighborhood any more.
One gay, black video blogger summed it up on YouTube:
“A rash of violent crime by black youth in Chicago’s predominately gay and white Lakeview neighborhood (aka, Boystown) has residents on edge, and sparking age old tensions between Blacks and the White GBLT community. It’s been going on for a couple of years. People are getting very, very frightened.”
The blogger says white people are afraid to mention the race of their attackers, for fear of being labeled a racist. “But if its true its true,” he said.
Examples of black mob on gay violence are also easy to find in Atlanta, New York, Washington, D.C. Seattle and dozens of other cities around the country.
In Atlanta, mobs of black people attacked dozens of gay people at an annual film festival called Screen on the Green. This went on for several years until the event was cancelled in 2012.
Also in Atlanta, a video of a group of black people taunting and beating a gay person went viral last year, leading to their arrests.
In Washington, D.C., gays are a frequent target for black mob violence. Not just in the streets surrounding the clubs and cafes, but also on bike paths.
In June of last year, three black people were accused of hurling anti-gay slurs at a gay teenager, then holding him down while they stabbed him. Then it got really strange in the reader comments section: “I can’t understand why they are angry – did the guy ask them for sex?,” said black commenter Debra Winfield. “Stupid people do stupid things.”
Other readers excoriated her for blaming the victim. Winfield doubled down, saying they were stupid. Over at the Washington Post in a report on the same story, one gay commenter summed it up and said what the paper would not:
The level of homophobia within the black community is overwhelming, and in a most calculated way, they spin it to blame gays, when they themselves are voting against LGBT rights at best, and ATTACKING gays at worse. Time to confront the elephant in the room and stop being so politically correct. Black homophobia is celebrated in the black community and no longer does the LGBT community have to stand for it.
A few months later, not too far away, five black people beat up a gay guy. But first they called him a lot of names. The gay media occasionally identifies the alleged perpetrators by race. The Washington Post and other local media? Never.
The gay papers are strangely silent on this black on gay violence as well. But every once in a while, someone speaks out. After exit polls revealed black people voted overwhelmingly against gay rights initiatives in California and New York, Dan Savage could not hold it in any longer:
I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there .. are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color.
These are just some of the hundreds of examples of racial violence and lawlessness in more than 80 cities around the country as documented in my book: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America.
Thomas Sowell said : ”Reading Colin Flaherty’s book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities.” – National Review.
The Society of Professional Journalists and Black Mob Violence: Let Them Come to Indianapolis.
Links below. Preview of an article for Front Page magazine.
Strange that the Society of Professional Journalists should wonder if its members write enough about race.
The SPJ is already one of the most race-conscious groups in America. And that is easy to see in every aspect of SPJ’s operations, including its magazine, web site, blogs, meetings, training, conventions and membership.
But race and crime? Not so much.
Abe Aamidor is wondering if that is a good idea. Aamidor wrote a thumb sucker for SPJ’s Quill magazine called “When Race is Relevant.” It does not ask about the relationship between race and crime. Or the different crime rates among races. The numbers are overwhelming and well known already. Even to the most obstinate reporter.
Aamidor asks a different question: How much should we let people know about it? Answer: not much.
Aamidor ignores how often SPJ members already report about race. How every day, we read about the black caucuses, black colleges, black churches, black labor unions, black businesses, black neighborhoods, black leaders, black victimization at the hands of supremacy, and on and on and on.
Many of these stories are written by members of the SPJ and the National Association of Black Journalists.
But when it comes to reporting on black crime, or black mob violence, these same reporters suddenly turn color blind.
What’s a reporter to do? asked Aamidor. Aside from following a link in the main photo of his article which connects to a web site of the “Party for Socialism and Liberation,” here’s the only answer Aamidor can muster: “Working journalists may need to look no further than their own media outlet’s policies, which likely will offer guidance on how to report on race and crime.”
More of the same.
Fair enough. Let’s check Aamidor’s former paper, The Indianapolis Star, where he toiled for 22 years.The Star’s policy toward reporting race and crime can be summed up in one word: Don’t.
One hour after after I read Aamidor’s piece, I came across a Tweet about one of the more popular euphemisms for black mob violence: Large fights. This one in Indianapolis, involving 80 people with baseball bats and other weapons. Everyone was black.
The next day, the Indy Star dutifully reported some of the details of the riot. Everything except the race. The paper also dutifully reported that this kind of large scale violence had happened twice before in the last year. And dutifully gave some details. Except the race.
Dutifully ignoring the frequency and intensity of black mob violence in Indianapolis.
In the last three years, there have been dozens of episodes of racial violence in this once bucolic slice of middle America. Many documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it.
Much of it on video.
But because the participants are not carrying signs with racist slogans, or
promoting violent black revolution as some did during a recent public meeting in Indianapolis, many reporters say there is no evidence of racial violence in Indianapolis. Or anywhere else.
No matter how many videos there are. No matter how far out of proportion black mob violence is. If they do not report it, it does not exist. And if it does not exist, how can they report it?
Every discussion of racial violence in Indianapolis must begin with the Indiana Black Expo. Over the last ten years, this annual, week long celebration of racial consciousness has been the site of shootings, assaults, property destruction, violence against police, and large scale mayhem that can only be called riots.
It got so bad even the Indy Star could no longer ignore it:
“Although none of the shootings or fights was directly connected to Summer Celebration events or venues, the annual celebration of black culture that attracts more than 200,000 people Downtown during its 11-day run has been inescapably tied to the violence.”
Much of the violence is on video. You can find a more complete record of the violence at the Black Expo here.
At this year’s Expo in August, hundreds of police smothered the downtown in anticipation of more black mob violence. Especially since the Expo occurred in the week following the acquittal of George Zimmerman.
When it did not occur, some accused the police of racial profiling. Others said police prepared for and prevented a predictable event. They wondered why an even larger event — the Indy 500 — required only a fraction of the police. And had fewer incidents.
Black mob violence is hardly limited to the Black Expo.
Downtown Indianapolis has been the site of dozens of cases of large-scale black mob violence over the last three years. The Indy Star reports these perpetrators as “unruly teens,” or “unruly youths” or any number of other euphemisms. But the videos tell the story.
The mobs are black.
Downtown Indy is supposed to be a gleaming center of commerce and government and tourism.
Instead, downtown on weekends today often resembles an armed camp with police officers, barricades, helicopters, and an increasing number of empty storefronts from merchants who no longer wish to tolerate the black mob violence that occurs with regular and violent intensity.
Earlier this year, after constructing a Maginot Line-like wall around the downtown, black people just went to one of the suburban malls and wreaked havoc there.
That is also on video.
By July 4 of this year, even the Indy Star knew there was a problem downtown. Here’s how they described it: “a city core overrun by unsupervised teenagers who fight each other and occasionally fire weapons.”
On July 4, despite dogs and helicopters and more than 100 police officers on the street, it happened again. But if you wanted to get the real flavor of the violence from the Indy Star, skip the reporting and go directly to the comments:
James Parson posted on the IndyStar.com:
“I was downtown with my family last night, I saw the gangs roaming the streets. I will not be coming downtown ever again,nor will my family. The insults that were thrown at my family by the black gangsters were out of line. One called my wife a fat whore. Glad to se that Ballard is doing something about these killers in training. I will not be back downtown.If you value your life you will not come either.The gangs own the streets in our city.”
Mark Magers chimed in:
“I agree James! I was downtown for the fireworks with friends and the gangs were ominous and ugly. What is going on downtown? We used to take pride in presenting a safe and fun filled experience.”downtown. I too will not be back and next year will go to the Geist “blast on the bridge”. A better show and nicer group of people!”
The national headquarters of the Society of Professional Journalists is four miles from the epicenter of this racial violence. But somehow, racial violence as a regular feature of the largest black expo in America did make it into this Aamidor’s discussion.
He did however, talk about how television news directors in Pittsburgh met last year with black activists to form an agreement as to how to reduce the coverage of black crime in that city. Aamidor reports the head of Black Empowerment Project said observing crime is bad for white and black people:
“If the only information about black people is what’s in the news, there’s a reason why the unemployment rate is astronomic and why we have all these negative issues — because the imaging of black people is extremely negative,” said Black Political Empowerment Project president Tim Stevens.
“Not only does it affect the viewpoint of white people with their thoughts on black people, I say it affects the psychology of black people.”
No news whether local farmers are complaining about the weather reports.
It’s time for some tough love in this town. There is a criminal element in this town that consists primarily of young black men.
The recent attacks on the Monon; the perpetrators were young black men. The “Pop It Off Boys” gang; young black men.
The most high ridden crime areas of the city, who are the bad guys? Say it with me, they are usually young black men.
This may be painful, but the truth hurts. … There is also something even more wrong when people will read this column and get mad at me and call me a “sellout” or an “Uncle Tom” because I was the guy who was brave enough to tell truth.
Indianapolis, you have a problem. Your problem is young, black men who are out of control. It’s time to step up and start making examples out of people.
Decent citizens black and white should not have to live in fear of urban terrorists.
The elderly man who marched for civil rights in the 1950s and 60s should not have to live in fear because some Robin Hoodlum doesn’t know how to honor the social contract.
Young people who are trying to do the right thing, shouldn’t have to live in fear because a bunch of cast extras from a Spike Lee film don’t know how to behave.
And I shouldn’t have to write blog posts like this because young black men act like social predators and terrorize the very neighborhoods they live in.
Not coming soon to your local chapter of the apologists at the Society of Professional Journalists.
Post Script: The Society of Professional Journalists is headquartered in Indianapolis. Of the 35 people staffers and members of the board or directors, none is black.
These are just some of the hundreds of examples of racial violence and lawlessness in more than 80 cities around the country as documented in my book: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America.
Thomas Sowell said : ”Reading Colin Flaherty’s book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities.” – National Review.
Letter from another reader who believes that observing racial violence is the same as causing racial violence.
This will be the last email that I send.
I am so disappointed that a white person, who has a strong voice and following is doing nothing but stirring up the pot of hatred.The last email that I sent to you asked you if you thought that you were helping the issue of violence or causing more harm.
I received your answer and hoped that it would be more than just a comment of, I am the fireman and not the arsonist.
How so? Every article that you place on your website is generalizing black people as mob attackers and criminals.
This doesn’t help the issue of violence because many of your followers are already afraid or prejudice against us anyway. You think that you are helping to bring awareness to an issue by complaing that the plauge of viloence agains white America is not getting enough recognition in the media.
I have a question sir, how long did we have to deal with the plauge of violence against us, and I am not talking about the civil rights movements that received media air time. I am talking about the race wars that I experienced in high school in 1998 in Wisconsin!
I am talking about the nights I was pulled over by an officer who asked me what was I doing in a certain neighborhood. That did not get any air time either. Am I walking around bitter at staking claims that all white people are corrupt and prejudice, no.
You are painting a picture that is going to cause some people to act out of unnecessary fear and anger. You say you are not the arsonist but I see you holding the match. Would you be having this same affection to your movement if it were white on black violence, or asian on indian violence probably not because your problem is with black people period.
Sir, you fit the mold of those same prejudice people I had to protect myself from in high school. I thought you made good points and were enlightened but I see you have just joined the lowest class race of people on this planet, the ignorant.
I hope that a black man helps you the next time you have a flat tire lol. Maybe that will ease your tension.
After I posted a few excerpts form Michelle Obama’s senior thesis at Princeton on my Facebook page, I heard from my old buddy from Newsweek:
“You are such an asshole,” quoth Jamie Reno.
The only rationale explanation is that someone hijacked former Newsweek reporter Jamie Reno’s email.
Or that Jamie was dipping into the sauce when this former Newsweek reporter saw a posting on my facebook page about Michelle Obama’s senior thesis.
Which I have tried to read several times. But, aside from the occasional complaint that the entire Princeton campus is racist, it reads like a lecture from Professor Irwin Corey.
But it is a precursor to the Critical Race Theory that is so popular today: Racism is everywhere. Racism is permanent. And lots of white people are not aware of it.
Saying you are not aware of it — or are not guilty of it — is the absolute surest way to know you are guilty of it.
Critical Race Theory is the most corrosive idea in the history of this country.
But Jamie Reno posted: “You are such an asshole.” And “get a life.”
Now you know where people get the crazy idea that liberal whack jobs drove Newsweek into the ground with relentlessly liberal reporting.
So here is what I told my old buddy Jamie Reno:
Regarding your comments about me posting an article about Michelle Obama’s senior thesis at Princeton, I remind you:
when someone presents an article and makes comments about it — as I did with Michelle Obama’s senior thesis — if other people disagree it is usual for them to say:
colin, here is why what she said is not racist.
or, colin, you have it wrong, that document is a fake.
or, colin, she recanted that.
or, colin, some idiot broke into my facebook page and is sending out stupid messages.
These are just some of the hundreds of examples of racial violence and lawlessness in more than 80 cities around the country as documented in my book: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America.
Thomas Sowell said : ”Reading Colin Flaherty’s book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities.” – National Review.
The two cases of racial violence in New York over the last week were so graphic that even NPR and the New York Times could not ignore them.
But the largest and most influential black web sites in America did.
In the first attack, Lashawn Marten allegedly declared his hatred for white people then punched Jeffrey Babbitt in the face as he walked through a Manhattan park Wednesday afternoon. Babbitt died five days later.
Two days after the Babbitt assault, a white man was riding a bus through Harlem when a black man confronted him, called him a cracker, and punched him in the head. The unidentified victim suffered several broken bones in his face. Police have released a photo of the suspect.
These are hardly the first cases of black on white violence in New York City. The book White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it documents dozens of such cases.
But it is unusual for the predators to announce their racial intentions so boldly. Rarer still for The Times and NPR to report them, however timidly. However briefly.
But that is more than the largest black web sites in America did. A sampling:
TheGrio is one of America’s more influential black web sites. The site is a division of MSNBC and gets its name from the term for “African story teller.” But this place for “African American breaking news and opinion” had nothing on either hate crime.
The Grio, however, did run several recent stories about George Zimmerman, including one titled “We told you so.” Reporters at The Grio also found time for features on “fashion racism,” and how an Oklahoma school district is banning dreadlocks.
Over at BET.com, the web site of Black Entertainment Television, the editors ran one story about George Zimmerman and his run-in with his wife, one story about “girls with grillz,” and lots of advertisements for Chicken McNuggets from McDonald’s.
But nothing on black on white violence in New York City.
The Huffington Post has a separate section for black people called “Black Volces.” Huffpo did run stories on the hate crimes in other sections, but nothing appeared in the pages of Black Voices.
Black Voices, however, did publish a full treatment on the “Tiana Parker” controversy. Parker was sent home from an Oklahoma school this week for violating district regulation against wearing dreadlocks. The Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus is conducting a full investigation of the matter. No word from Black Voices when or if Oklahoma black legislators will be looking into the killing of the white Australian student Chris Lane in Oklahoma last month at the hands of two black people.
One of the alleged killers proclaimed on Twitter that “90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM.” The other had pictures on his Facebook page featuring a flag of Africa with the words “Black Power” on it.
TheRoot.com is the Washington Post’s black web site. The Post claims it is “the premier news, opinion and culture site for African-American influencers.” It was founded in 2008 by Dr. Henry Gates — Skip, to President Obama — who became even more famous for complaining about racist treatment at the hands of Cambridge police. An incident that culminated in the “beer summit” at the White House.
The Root published nothing on either alleged New York hate crime. But it did run recent stories including “Will an HBCU (Historically Black College or University) Make My Kid too Black? No, and such assumptions about these schools suggest you might be the one who needs an education.”
These are just some of the hundreds of examples of racial violence and lawlessness in more than 80 cities around the country as documented in my book: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America.
Thomas Sowell said : ”Reading Colin Flaherty’s book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities.” – National Review.
In Newark, Delaware Monday night, police disbursed more than 3000 rowdy teenagers who were just blowing off some steam at a “Shmacked Tour” party event.
According to WDEL:
More than 1,000 people were partying in the backyard of a house, where a DJ was spinning. When police arrived, the crowd broke up, blocking traffic on South College Avenue and Main Street. Police say many of the students walked on the hoods of cars.
After the party broke up, the crowd — mostly of students from the University of Delaware — swelled to 3000, say police. Local media called it a “riot.”
What a disappointment:
No fractured skulls.
No Apple picking.
No panicked calls to 911.
No bricks through storefronts.
No bottles thrown at cops.
No murders.
No stabbings.
No kick downs.
No bloody faces.
No broken jaws.
No one in the hospital.
No gun fire.
No locks in socks.
No permanent brain damage.
No racist threats.
No beating old people.
No kicking pregnant women.
No baseball bats in the face.
No robberies.
No pushing people into moving cars on a busy street.
No toddler taunting.
Just one measly car fire. And a couple of people jumped on cars.
There was some public urination. And a few guys dropped their drawers, displaying their tighty whities. Other than that, a few parents wondered what videos of their children acting stupidly were doing up on the internet.
You call that a riot?
The Shmacked Tour is organized by a video company that goes from college town to college town, filming college kids in their natural environment. The charge $20 to $75 a ticket. Think lots of beer and scantily clad college girls. Kind of a “Girls Go Wild” lite. The videos of the parties attract hundreds of thousands of viewers.
The company also sells t-shirts and other accessories.
On the bright side, they did have some pretty good excuses. The founder of the roving frat bash, Arya Toufania, explained it all to the Daily News after he learned his cameraman was one of three people arrested at the “riot.”
“The real instigators of the riot were the police. They could have shut the party down, cornered it off, it just seemed as if they were, like, monitoring the riot.”
At least they got that part right. The excuses, that is.
Meanwhile, the same night a few miles up the freeway in Chester, Pennsylvania, 100 black people were fighting in the street. Ten people were arrested. No one called that a riot. They called it a large fight.
When Philly.com tracked down Chester Police Commissioner Joseph Bail Jr. to ask about that riot, he put it all in perspective:
These are just some of the hundreds of examples of racial violence and lawlessness in more than 80 cities around the country as documented in my book: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America.
Thomas Sowell said : ”Reading Colin Flaherty’s book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities.” – National Review.
This is great: “She’s rich.”