BOOK REVIEW: 'White Girl Bleed a Lot': Color Blindness in Crime Reporting Misleads Everybody
One of my favorite cat pictures -- I'm a cat person -- has one cat with his paws around another cat's neck, with the caption : "Keep walking...this doesn't concern you".
I mention this because Colin Flaherty's "White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It" (WND Books, 416 pages, $17.95 trade paperback, revised 2013 edition, also in eBook editions, notes, sources, links to YouTubes, index) says this is the attitude about the American phenomenon of black "youths" or "teens" (that's how they're often identified, with no racial description) attacking whites and Asians in cities across the country.
Flaherty points out -- providing dozens of examples -- that editors ignore the fact that the vast majority of the attacks are perpetrated by young blacks -- male and female -- against whites, gays, Jews and others deemed to be weak who won't defend themselves.
In many cases, the attacks aren't even in crime statistics, because police don't include them -- or fail to file reports. Cops in several cities are telling potential victims to arm themselves -- and they are, with results that are deemed "vigilantism" by left-leaning journalists, "civil rights" leaders and the other usual suspects.
I first became aware of this phenomenon that has spread like a toxic rash across the nation when I read of an attack in Milwaukee that gave Flaherty the title of his book. A group of white picnickers were attacked by a group of blacks in Brew City, with one teen-age black girl commenting "White girl bleed a lot."
Flaherty includes this incident in his book, along with the 2011 race riot at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis, a suburb of Milwaukee, the incident that prompted my columns. I was a reporter/editor at The Milwaukee Sentinel from 1967 to 1976, so this was a natural for me to blog about. I had always known about the underreported violence in Milwaukee, which is becoming a majority black city similar to its much larger neighbor to the south, Chicago.
Flaherty, a radio talk show host in Wilmington, Delaware, a city that is 60 percent African-American and which appears in the book with descriptions of black on white attacks, says:
"I wrote this book for the people who deny we are in the midst of an epidemic of racial violence.
There are lots of them out there: Reporters. Liberals. Police administrators. Editors. Mayors. Ten years ago, this would have been a he said/she said story. But no more. Today we have thousands of videos of black mob violence. In cities big and small.
"Today, for the first time, you can follow these videos on your computer or your smart phone as your read the book. All you have to do is hit a link or scan the QR code. Very easy.
"This book offers no grand causes. No grand solutions. Neither does it apologize. It is written without racism. Without rancor. Just the facts: One after another. The violence. Then denial in the press.
"Over and over and over.
"Here is what I have learned from writing this book: Many, many people around the country are relieved that someone is telling the truth about racial violence. And doing it without racism.
"Unless, of course, you think facts are racist. Don't laugh. Some do. Those folks need a copy of "White Girl Bleed a Lot" as well.
"Lots and lots of copies of this book have been presented to liberal brothers-in-law at a family gathering with the admonition: "Read this, you blankety blank expletive deleted."
"Lots and lots of cops read this book too. They are the sources for many of the stories.
"When you are finished reading it, I hope you will come over to my web site and let me know what your think. Or @ColinFlaherty on Twitter."
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Racial violence is back, Flaherty writes, especially on mass transit, which gets a chapter by itself in the book. If you're a white, an Asian, a woman, elderly, gay, an observant Jew, riding in a rapid transit system like New York's, Atlanta's, Chicago's or just about anywhere can be hazardous to your health, Flaherty writes, giving documented examples of gangs of young blacks terrorizing passengers on these transit systems. Being a train operator or a bus driver has become a hazardous occupation, with "youths" and "teens" attacking these workers.
Along with widespread racial crime — even riots -- in hundreds of episodes in more than 80 cities since 2010, groups of black people are roaming the streets of America — assaulting, intimidating, stalking, threatening, vandalizing, stealing, shooting, stabbing, even raping and killing. This is happening in cities big and small -- expected and unexpected.
But local media and public officials are silent, he writes, fearing being labeled as racist for telling what's really going on. Crime is color blind, says a Milwaukee police chief. Race is not important, a Chicago newspaper editor assures us. That denies the obvious: America is the most race conscious society in the world.
In "White Girl Bleed A Lot" we learn that every day from black caucuses, black teachers, black unions, black ministers, black colleges, black high schools, black music, black moguls, black hair business owners, black public employees, black art, black names, black poets, black inventors, black soldiers, black police officers.
We learn it in stories written by members of the National Association of Black Journalists. We talk about everything except black mob violence and lawlessness. That is Taboo. Result: Few know about it. Fewer still are talking about it. Today it is at epidemic levels at almost every city in the country.
The list of cities under attack is long and getting longer — with some cities suffering dozens of attacks in the last two years alone: Chicago. Miami. Philadelphia. Las Vegas. New York. Atlantic City. Milwaukee. Charlotte. Mobile. Kansas City. Denver. Birmingham. Saratoga Springs. Seattle. Portland. Nashville. Washington, D.C. Los Angeles. Rochester. Wilmington. Georgetown. Greensboro. Nashville. Peoria. Vallejo, CA, Des Moines. Dallas. Rehoboth Beach. Baltimore. Montgomery County, MD (Yes, Silver Spring, even!), Boston. St. Louis. Brighton Beach.
To use a familiar slogan, I found Flaherty's book fair and balanced, especially when he included comments by black leaders who call for parents to take charge of their kids and who exhort civil rights leaders to stop denying what everybody knows. Particularly loathsome are attacks on whites and Asian-Americans and others by black "teens" and "youths" -- to use the routine mainstream media terms -- that purport to avenge the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
And in the "what the F--- were they thinking" department, Flaherty writes about communities like Myrtle Beach, SC, that cater to a predominantly white customer base scheduling a "Black Biker Week". Check out pages 72-73 for his description of how this once peaceful event has turned into a disaster for Myrtle Beach businesses and residents. Most of the events have turned into riots, along with similar large gatherings of partying blacks in places like Miami Beach.
Black author Thomas Sowell: ”Colin Flaherty has done more reporting than any other journalist on what appears to be a nationwide trend of skyrocketing black-on-white crime, violence and abuse.”