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.’”
It’s not Eric Holder, it is Hussein Obama
Hussein has been working hard to bring racial strife to America. The more Americans killed in racial battles means less Americans the Muslims have to kill
Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground in PA.Bang! You’re Dead!
PC is still the prevalent ideology even on 'conservative' sites.
Typical. Who could have seen that coming?/s Let's delve into Leon's beliefs and background. Wonder what we would find there?
No. The problem is an adversarial, frequently criminal, subculture in the underclass. This is rooted in illegitimacy, too many fatherless children, and long term welfare dependency. The problem has been exacerbated as the black middle class, now the substantial majority of the black population, has moved up and out. The really festering areas are dominated by the left-behinds, by now the product of three or four generations of inbred failure which rapidly became the excuse, the expectation and the norm for the underclass.
Several things have to happen. The black middle class needs to stop rationalizing and excusing dysfunction. Most of the feral "youths" roaming the streets have near relatives -- uncles, cousins, brothers -- who got a job, and left the mean street behind. We are way past the point at which white people can preach to this crowd, but the black community needs to start demanding more of its own. And the black leadership needs to change; when the sober histories of this era are eventually written, there will be a special level of contempt reserved for the army of race hucksters who stepped to the front after the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.
Here in DC, the big centralized housing projects, one by one, are being closed. Low income housing needs to be dispersed, and is being dispersed. If that means the suburban jurisdictions have to shoulder part of the load, so be it; the suburbs are where the service sector job growth is to be found, so the suburbs are where lower income people need to be living if we expect them to work. And disastrous inner city schools have to be fixed. School choice will do that, over time, and in the long run I think we will win that battle.
Integration has not failed. It is the un-integrated left behind population that constitutes the problem.
Bad policy created this problem. Good policy is needed to correct it.
It will stop when they have to guess whether you are carrying or not after of coarse there are a few examples made
...was as forbidden on Free Republic as supporting Rand Paul.
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Supporting Rand Paul should be forbidden! ...Apologies to all FR Paulbots, but it’s my opinion that someone who supports amnesty and other left-of-center movements should not represent Conservatives. .........Also am very tired of seeing the MSM and leftist blogs/sites continually referring to Rand Paul as “far right” or a “conservative”.
The revolution is about to start. Lock and load.
The revolution is about to start. Lock and load.
Never thought of that.
Hmmm..a conversation starter...kind of like a dueling scar or that odd skull-shaped dent on my bass guitar! hahaha
I served with an old time warrant officer who said there were massive race riots at some army posts in the 70’s, but the military did their best to cover them up.
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Had big racial set-to on my aircraft carrier around 1961. Occurred in a fairly empty hanger bay and lasted for a couple of hours, while all hatches from the HB were secured and they were allowed to fight it out.
Lots of minor injuries, but no deaths. ....Was also hushed up by the brass, even though one (maybe two) of the black instigators were “lost overboard” at night within a couple of days.
Ever since The Queer-in-Charge was immaculated (elected for those morons) the black on white crime has increased.
Yepper - finally got my wife to start carrying a spare for her weapon too...
Sorry, EE stands for Employee.
Of course, that ruins a perfectly NICE purse!
I think it would be really cool to walk around with a purse with a bullet hole in it, besides the obvious losing of my change.
I am not a chick. I am just sensitive, and with an eye for window treatments.
Auster was a good man.
He was not driven by hatred even though he was constantly accused of that.
You know, a bullet hole in my purse would be kind of cool!
And a 380 doesn’t make TOO big a hole.
A .45, on the other hand....
Your #65 and #66 postings are VERY generalized and don’t apply to most of the US. ....I understand that you may be only expressing what you have experienced by living in liberal areas. .......Most of the country is not what you described.
PC means the death of free discourse and freedom to discuss topics, but only for white people.
My wife sometimes is appalled at the comments I make, and I always ask: is it due to your courtesy that makes my words unpalatable, or is it your PC programming?
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