Posted on 11/10/2014 8:06:58 PM PST by 11th_VA
COURT HOUSE – Colin Flaherty is a noted journalist for 30 years, whose works have appeared in major newspapers including The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, and has been published in 1,000 sites around the world and received 50 journalism awards. Flaherty made an appearance Nov. 3 at Atlantic Cape Community College to speak about black-on-white violence, a topic, he stated, which does not receive much press.
The subject makes editors uncomfortable, Flaherty said. Liberals, he said, cringe at the idea of black-on-white violence and police underreport it.
Flaherty documented cases in Chicago where Mayor Rahm Emanuel denied it, and in Philadelphia where Mayor Michael Nutter diminished it.
Flaherty appeared at Helen McCaffrey’s American History II class, Francis Raucher’s English class, and John Alvarez’s theatre class, to discuss his book, White Girl Bleed A Lot, and thesis that black-on-white crime is increasing, and that it is not sufficiently covered in the press establishment.
Flaherty said that race riots are occurring and they are largely ignored. Political correctness has reached a new high, according to Flaherty, as TV affiliates, newspaper editors and mayors fall all over themselves to avoid attributing race to the attackers, who are, he said, predominantly young black men.
McCaffrey, who teaches history at Atlantic Cape, introduced Flaherty. “The purpose of coming to college is to explore ideas, new ideas, and to think. If we are not making you uncomfortable, we are not making you think. Ask questions,” she said, “and feel free to agree or disagree. That’s how you learn to think.”
Asked about how the speaker got invited, McCaffrey replied, “I heard him on the radio, and I thought that he presented an unheard point of view. I told him that he needed to talk to college students, and he said, ‘Let’s do it.’”
Flaherty’s book, which is a bestseller on Amazon, begins: “Racial violence is back. In hundreds of episodes across the country since 2010, groups of black people are roaming the streets of America, intimidating, stalking, vandalizing, stealing, shooting, stabbing, raping, and killing.
“In private, they said that it was the Asian students’ fault. Lots of racism is targeted at immigrants, especially Asians, by young black men,” he said.
The students were also complaining because the administration did nothing to protect them. One video, featuring a black youth, said that the object was not racism, but financial opportunity. The people were helpless, had cell phones, did not speak English well and were not able to retaliate. They were afraid. So they were targeted.
Flaherty also detailed incidents of “knockout,” a game wherein a black mob appears and several members knock over elderly women or men, or a single person, while others beat them. The rest of the assembly stands by and cheers.
Flaherty said he addresses the problem like an old-fashioned newspaper reporter. He doesn’t ask why, he doesn’t comment on the causes, he just states the facts. He doesn’t care why it is happening, he cares that it is happening, and he thinks that truth is better than fiction. “And if it is happening, it ought to be covered,” he said.
In his book, Flaherty delineated a list of 90 cities under attack. Beginning with Atlantic City, the narrative continues across the country, including anecdote after anecdote, which includes Miami Beach ‘black beach parties,’ and college campus riots in Philadelphia and in the Midwest.
Closer to Cape May County, Flaherty reported many cases of black-on-white violence in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Washington, D.C. and New York.
He talked about liberals who want to give reasons for the behavior but who fail to recognize it for what it is. He mentioned newspapers calling attackers ‘youths,’ but never presenting their color. He talked about the newspapers minimizing the situation.
At one point during the talk at Atlantic Cape, a voice from the audience shouted, “Are you a racist?” That was Leon Hart, a black man.
“No, I’m just giving you the facts,” Flaherty replied.
Discussing Ferguson, Mo., Flaherty said that NBC reported, “The protests at Ferguson have been largely peaceful.” However, the police in the area had purchased $172,669 worth of tear gas, grenades, and other body armor. Demonstrations, he said, were violent, rampant with Molotov cocktails, gunfire, and residents were beaten.
Flaherty said the event was documented with videos, 911 calls, police reports.
He said that the reason a lot of black violence goes unreported is fear. In Philadelphia, he said, there are 2,500 cases of intimidation on the books. People were attacked in their homes, police went and broke it up, the attackers left, and then went back and threatened destruction if anyone spoke about it.
Flaherty went on to describe “polar bear hunting,” where blacks get together and beat up whites. It occurs, he said, at “a lot at colleges, like the University of Illinois. It’s always a lot worse than what I describe. Every story I do, people come up to me and say, ‘Oh yeah, that’s been happening around here, too.’”
Just saying.............
Whites still have choices to, sister............
Really? I think most cities...even here where I live,,have ordinances against 16-18 people living in one house.
Nice post....but wrong headed.
You are saying it's whose fault here?
I live in the city and cheer whenever a big housing project is torn down. We have lost a number of them on Capitol Hill over the past 20 years, and the area improves with each one that disappears. But as the projects close, where are the people supposed to go? I have posed that question more than once on this board, and the overwhelming response I get is ... immediate NIMBYism from the suburbanites, followed by ... silence, on the question of just where, when we shut down the project, people should actually move.
I am not in favor of a big federal sledgehammer. I would much prefer to work through voluntary accommodations and adjustments of incentives at the local level, recognizing that communities are different and that one size doesn't fit all. But one consistent planning objective should be to break up very large concentrations of the poor; the culture of poverty cannot be addressed if we continue to concentrate the poor in areas where dysfunction is normalized. Another basic objective should be to encourage affordable housing in reasonably close proximity to job centers.
I suppose, just to round out the discussion, we can also consider the option of bringing jobs to poor neighborhoods. The track record on this is mixed. There have been some notable failures, but also some successes. Here in DC, for example, the old St. Elizabeth's campus in Anacostia is being converted into a consolidated headquarters for Homeland Security. The St. Elizabeth's site is a spectacular piece of real estate that has been begging for a major anchor tenant for many years, and it is finally happening. This will bring thousands of high paying jobs into an interesting, and challenged, area. (Anacostia has a number of quite nice enclaves, some near St. E's; it is not the complete disaster area out-of-towners assume.) This part of town, in 20 years, will be transformed, and the ancillary development will much enlarge the local jobs base. All to the good.
But the point remains, poor people need to live somewhere, and NIMBY isn't an answer. I keep reading that gentrification, in many cities, is already pushing poverty further out into the suburbs. Suburbanites should perhaps give serious thought to this before the displacement reaches critical mass.
I was making a hypothetical argument about what would happen under an absolute private property rights dispensation. Get rid of exclusionary zoning, including occupancy rules, and poor families could double and triple up in four bedroom split levels out in cul-de-sac land. And some would. Some of this already happens illegally, of course, but it is discouraged.
If you don't want that to happen, what would you do to allow poor families access to better school districts and greater proximity to job centers? Not all the poor will want to move -- but a lot of them are desperate to get out. A lot of misdirected policy over the past half-century has conspired to keep them fixed in place.
I worked on the St. E’s grounds in the early 90’s. Some beautiful buildings and scenery there, as well as small 5-10 stone Civil War graveyards. Great view too.
The rest of Anacostia, well...
There are some nice areas off Branch Avenue, Alabama Avenue and Ridge Road. Hillcrest is all new. Westover is one of the best kept secrets in DC. Even the old downtown has spruced up considerably.
Yes, it's still patchy and a work in progress, but a big fedjob center at St. E's will make a big difference.
That’s all well and good until someone runs by and snatches the purse off her shoulder and gone, gun and all.
“Don’t know if the second part is happening.”
It’s called “gentrification.”
Oh....okay, thanks.
libs want to disarm whites so they can be shut down and herded by a viscous group
...I can just picture them oozing down the street being herded by a viscous group...ghastly...
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