New: Colin disingenuous? Letter from a TV news director — in denial?

March 25, 2014 — 1 Comment

So I send some media folks an email this morning. Here’s one letter and one honest reply:

Mr. Chris Huston:

re: Racial Violence breaks out in seven cities. ALL LAST WEEK. No one connecting the dots.

Hi Chris,

Racial violence hit seven cities in the last week. Yet no one is talking about it.

The black mob violence in Louisville Saturday night was a lot worse than anyone first reported.

But it was not the only case of black mob violence last week. It might not even have been the worst.

In Louisville, by the time the 200 black people were finished rampaging through the downtown area, 17 people were attacked, six hospitalized, cars were trashed, trash cans thrown, property destroyed, and many, many people in Louisville were quietly admitting this has been happening there for a while.

Similar cases happened in Kansas City, where hundreds of black people at a Free Zoo day fought and fired guns. And oh yeah, its been happening there a long time.

In Philadelphia, a gang of black people attacked two college students, hitting a woman in the face with a brick. And oh yeah, its been happening there a long time.

In Seattle, an aspiring human rights lawyer suggested to a black mob on a train that they stop smoking and start behaving. They broke his jaw. And oh yeah, its been happening there a long time.

In Dover, Delaware, hundreds of students from a black college fought, destroyed property, defied police at a local casino. And oh yeah, its been happening there a long time.

In St. Louis, 50 black people stormed through downtown, fighting, destroying property, terrorizing residents.And oh yeah, its been happening there a long time.

In Rochester, black students at Frederick Douglass high school fought and destroyed property. Five arrested. And oh yeah, its been happening there a long time.

In Orlando, police used pepper spray to break up a large group of black people fighting, destroying property.

 These are ALL last week.

I am the author of White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It — which for the last six months has been the #1 Best Selling Civil Rights Book at Amazon.

This book has been featured or talked about in just about every talk show in America. And the subject of lots of glowing columns from Thomas Sowell, Allen West, Daily Caller, Breitbart, American Thinker, and loads of others.

So let’s talk.

Colin Flaherty
619-379-6156

p.s. Here is a link to stories about all the above incidents.

 

THE REPLY FROM LOUISIANA:
Colin,
I’d like to suggest that it’s pretty disingenuous to say that “the media is silent” and “no one is talking about it,” and then provide links to media coverage of all the events you cite.  Clearly, the local media is NOT silent in these cities you mention.
I’m guessing that what you mean is that the major networks (including FOX News) aren’t covering the overall story of violent crime in America  to your satisfaction.   As a guy who makes his living in the local news wars, I’d ask that in future publicity releases you make that distinction, but I realize it’s a subtlety probably lost on your target audience.
At any rate, good luck with your book.  The issue of crime, regardless of the race of the people who commit it, continues to be a serious problem in America, as it has been for the last, oh, hundred years or so.   I can remember Nixon campaigning hard on the need to radically increase the number of police officers on American streets to combat “the ever increasing tidal wave of crime that continues to sweep across America.”  That was 1960.
As I’m sure you know, for decades sociologists have observed crime to be a manifestation of groups who perceive themselves as being essentially powerless within the larger social and economic picture, and tends to run most strongly along economic, not racial, lines.  Sometimes, of course, those lines intersect—but not always.
Again, good luck with your book.
Chris Huston
News Director
KTAL/NBC 6 News
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3150 N. Market Street
Shreveport, LA 71107
Office:318-629-6000
Reply from Colin:
Whew!
Congrats on the being the 99th news director to make such a straw man statement.
the media is silent about the central organizing feature of this violence.
Race.
But you already know that.
Colin

 

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Colin Flaherty is the author of #1 Amazon Best Selling Book: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it. He is an award winning journalist whose work has been published in over 1000 news sites around the world, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and others. He is a frequent guest in local and national media talking about racial violence. 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.