My secret is out.
From a kid I grew up with. Not even sure which Kevin this is. That’s the kind of neighborhood it was: Lots of Kevins.
Colin and I grew up blocks apart in the 1960s, and it’s no coincidence he’s written this book.
All of us from that time and space back in the old neighborhood saw and experienced street intimidation, humiliations, robberies, bricks through our windows, and beatings.
What we experienced was “The Great Migration” and the subsequent ethnic cleansing as the city became unsafe. What we experienced was a slow motion race riot. When us old Wilmingtonians gather we talk of these episodes and the truth of diversity as we lived it always shocks the young and those from out-of-state.
We are bitter. We lost our city and our homes. In a sick twist, those of us who left the city and it’s rising tide are criticized for leaving.
Liberal whites sometimes say we should have stayed and “fought.” I always wonder what that means? Blacks, upon learning one is a suburbanite or rural dweller, narrow their eyes as they assess you as a stone-cold racist.
Such is the tissue of lies that we live under. Meanwhile Wilmington is near the top of the list of cities its size in terms of shootings and murders.
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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.
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And so is Cleveland ,Ohio.A city that had many immigrant enclaves,Polish,Lithuanian,Italian neighborhoods all decimated.