Colin Flaherty > Quotes

“Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma’am.”
― Colin Flaherty, White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America

“Here is your law enforcement and media question of the day: Was the TV show COPS real or BS?

It might have been real incidents, but it wasn't really all that real. They edited the episodes to make it appear as if black people were committing fewer crimes. That is what the show creator John Langley said in a 2009 interview in response to people who were unhappy his long-running reality show, COPS, was showing too many black people getting arrested.

What irritates me sometimes is critics still watch and say, 'Oh look, they misrepresent people of color.' That's absolutely not true. To the contrary, I show more white people than statistically what the truth is in terms of street crime..It's just the reverse. And I do that intentionally, because I do not want to contribute to negative stereotypes, said Langley, the show's producer, in 2009.”
― Colin Flaherty, White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America

“Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.”
― Colin Flaherty, White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America

“I don't do the mob mind-reading trick, so I do not speak to motivation. But I do keep my eyes open and watch what happens. It is called reporting.”
― Colin Flaherty, White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America

“The flip side of the rising tide of black mob violence is what the prison psychologist calls "infantile omnipotence." This is the feeling that because something has not happened to you directly, you can ignore it. Like an infant who thinks it is not vulnerable to any danger, because all it has ever known is the safety of the womb or the crib.

This is what accounts for widespread willingness to ignore the violence among members of the media and some members of the public.”
― Colin Flaherty, White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America

“Ninety-nine out of a hundred conversations in the media about race go through the same kabuki: Ignore the victims. Humanize the thugs. When it is over, congratulate each other for superior moral sensitivity.”
― Colin Flaherty, White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America

“The level of violence finally forced the local paper to do what the local police would not: Talk to the victims. Shaina Perry remembers the punch to her face, blood streaming from a cut over her eye, her backpack with her asthma inhaler, debit card, and cell phone stolen, and then the laughter. They just said “Oh, white girl bleeds a lot,” said Perry, 22, who was attacked at Kilbourn Reservoir Park over the Fourth of July weekend.2”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It

“Something happened and I confirmed it. Or I did not write it. There is no seems. I did not say the attack was anti-white. I describe the attackers as a mob of black people as part of a pattern of such attacks.”
― Colin Flaherty, White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America

“What she did was like the people stirring up the riots in Egypt and Libya," said my liberal brother John Flaherty. "Just say anything without even caring if it is true. That is how riots start.”
― Colin Flaherty, White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America

“That brings us to the essence of this book: There are so many episodes of black mob violence, so astronomically out of proportion, so often celebrated in popular black culture, that we no longer have to do the mob mind-reading trick. Something is happening, something peculiar to black people. And no one wants to talk about it, because people don’t know how. Here’s how: No generalizations. No stereotypes. And also, no apologies. I also don’t do causes or solutions. It’s above my pay grade.”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It

“Excuses do not have to be true, or relevant.”
― Colin Flaherty, White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America

“When the Department of Justice came in and found the school had a long history of black-on-Asian racial violence that school officials ignored, school officials admitted they might have had a problem. So they printed up some pamphlets and gave them to the Asian students, instructing them how to avoid antagonizing their black schoolmates with their racist behavior.”
― Colin Flaherty, White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America

“The Chicago Sun-Times is a national leader in two areas: 1) Denying that racial mob violence exists, and 2) Explaining why it does. When a mob of five hundred people stormed through downtown Chicago, beating and threatening and destroying property, do you know what the excuse was?
1) Warm weather”
― Colin Flaherty, White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America

“I don’t care where you are in America, if you’re on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there’s some violence going down. It ain’t the safest place to be. You can’t call nobody and tell them you are lost on MLK.”  (If you do, they will say) RUN! RUN! RUN!”
― Colin Flaherty, 'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it.

“Let's not forget Chicago. There have been tons of attacks on Chicago Transit Authority buses and trains. The head of the CTA said riders should be more aware of their surroundings. More blaming the victim. Maybe the riders need some pamphlets on how not to anger the rioters.”
― Colin Flaherty, White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America

“Another report came out about how a major city cooks the books on crime. This time Los Angeles: “LAPD MISCLASSIFIED NEARLY 1,200 VIOLENT CRIMES AS MINOR OFFENSES,” says the headline.  All during a one year period ending September 2013. “Including hundreds of stabbings, beatings and robberies, a Times investigation found.” “The incidents were recorded as minor offenses and as a result did not appear in the LAPD's published statistics on serious crime that officials and the public use to judge the department's performance.”[407] Black people make up 9.6 percent of the city’s population, but 30 percent of the general jail population.[408] Hispanics make up 45 percent of the city. The Times does not get into whether black people benefit from this under reporting. People at cop web sites chimed in this happens a lot: “Cleveland does the same thing, to cover up their short comings, because they wanted to snare the Republican Convention, they did, Watch Out Republicans, there is a lot of crime downtown by the casino.”[409]”
― Colin Flaherty, 'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it.

“In Cleveland, a black mob attacked a disabled army veteran. They first saw him on a bus, then followed him when he left it. They kicked him, punched him, and knocked him down -- all the while saying ‘Knock that boy out! White boy. Cracker. Knock that white boy out.  He lived. [356] And oh yeah: The reporters say “teen mobs” do that a lot in Cleveland, before, during and after Black History Month. Though they never seem to get around to writing about it.”
― Colin Flaherty, 'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it.

“Just a few days before the attack on Burke, Parenting magazine named Wilmington the most “dangerous city in America.”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It

“My question to readers accusing us of political correctness is: Why do you care so much about the attackers’ race? If you fear or dislike blacks, I suppose it would confirm your prejudice. But otherwise, it tells you nothing useful.20 Well, Mr. Steve Chapman, here’s one reason that we should care: when papers like the Chicago Tribune support affirmative action, racial quotas, and other race-based solutions to very difficult problems, asking for the paper to identify the assailants is one way of asking “How’s that working out for you?” On a more practical level, giving the details may help someone avoid being a victim of the next mob attack.”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It

“Editors and readers of the New York Daily News want us to know that race had nothing to do with the ten black people who stopped a car and beat a young white couple in Brooklyn. All the while yelling racial epithets. “It’s not just a black and white thing,” reported the Daily News. “It’s stupid teenagers thinking they can do whatever they want.”[806] They just happen to be black. And the fact they just happen to be black astronomically out of proportion has no meaning. Got it? The attack happened Monday, in October 2013, six days before the Daily News got around to doing a story on it. A group of 10 black youths — one of them a 12-year-old girl — pummeled a husband and wife in Brooklyn after peppering the couple with racial slurs, authorities said. “Get those crackers!” some of them screamed, according to court papers. “Get that white whore!”
― Colin Flaherty, 'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it.

“mob violence is what the prison psychologist calls “infantile omnipotence.” This is the feeling that because something has not happened to you directly, you can ignore it. Like an infant who thinks it is not vulnerable to any danger, because all it has ever known is the safety of the womb or the crib. This is what accounts for widespread willingness to ignore the violence among members of the media and some members of the public, he said.”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It

“CONFESSIONS OF A GANGSTER A former gang member talks about racial violence from way back in the eighties. “It started out innocently,” Jones, 39, tells me at a Starbucks on Chestnut Street near the group’s old stomping grounds. The posse walked to South Street seeking action. “They had a term, ‘clocking wigs,’ that meant hitting someone in the head,” he recalls with shame and disgust. “They preyed on women, whites, and Asians.” “They were selective,” driven less by hating whites than wanting to feel superior to weaker, vulnerable strangers, he explains. “If they saw anyone who could defend themselves or pose a threat, they wouldn’t do anything.”1 Any questions?”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It

“The mob took over South Street that warm Saturday night, the first of spring, as though popping up from nowhere, witnesses said. It seemed to be following the patterns of three similar mobs that had quickly assembled in Center City on March 3, Feb. 16, and Dec. 18. “They had smiles on their faces as they scared people at random,” Assistant District Attorney Angel Flores said in an interview with The Inquirer a week after the March 20 attacks. “They thought that assaulting others was a form of enjoyment.”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It

“No one knows how often guns are used for self-defense. According to a Cato Institute white paper called Tough Targets, the number of crimes thwarted by guns every year ranges anywhere from tens of thousands to as high as two million. The work of author John Lott is the best place to go for more of this kind of information.15”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It

“The Second City Cop is a blog for and by Chicago police officers. After a recent violent weekend featuring three attacks of black mobs in the 018 beat, the downtown area, the blog reported: And for the record, the “three” “muggings” that are being “investigated?” Add a zero to that for incidents occurring last night in 018. Crime is down and if no one reports it or the media doesn’t get a hold of it? It never happened.12 Crime is down. But the number of unreported crimes is up. Go figure.”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It

“After 30 years as a court-ordered and prison psychologist, Newburn has seen up close what happens when schools excuse bad behavior for any reason, including race. Especially race. The liberal is the prototypical appeaser of bad behavior, and for decades, liberals have run public schools in America,” Newburn said. “I've seen firsthand where the most brutal school space-taker (not, "student") will be given scores of chances instead of permanently sending it home for parental repair. After all, the public school potentates believe school thugs are just misunderstood and should be given unending chances to destroy the learning environment. That the teachers are paying the personal price for this thug-enabling system comes not as a shock. It is predictable. I lied: There’s too much of it. I cannot fit it all in just one chapter. Or even two. Or even one book.”
― Colin Flaherty, 'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it.

“It’s time to step up and start making examples out of people. Decent citizens black and white should not have to live in fear of urban terrorists. The elderly man who marched for civil rights in the 1950s and 60s should not have to live in fear because some Robin Hoodlum doesn’t know how to honor the social contract. Young people who are trying to do the right thing, shouldn’t have to live in fear because a bunch of cast extras from a Spike Lee film don’t know how to behave.”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It

“If you raise your children to be victims, they’ll be victims as adult. Who do they attack? The elderly, the poor at the bus stops, immigrants, weak yuppies, the Woody Allen crowd, pencil neck geeks on their iPhones. Why? Because they won’t fight back. They’re looking for an easy victim. The root of the problem, in my opinion, father’s not raising their children.7”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It

“On July 29, 2011, a man in hospital scrubs was walking down the street at 2 p.m. Coming towards him were seven black students from Mastery Charter School in Philadelphia. Oprah gave the school $1 million. Not as a reward. The Oprah dollars came before the attacks so that the black children could have shiny new computers and nice uniforms, which they were wearing during the attack. As the man passed the students, they turned and pummeled him. It was all caught on tape from two surveillance cameras. Maybe we’ll see this on the Oprah Network.17”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It

“Despite the news accounts from other reporters, despite the calls I made to police and city council members, she said none of it happened. She admitted that “the party grew to unanticipated proportions,” but she claims there “was no lawlessness. There was no mob.” And here is how she knew: “I know this even though I wasn’t there — because there were no arrests. If there had been lawlessness and violence, there would have been arrests.”6 At times like this, times of monumental … uh, innocence, a reasonable man has only one response. To quote the Godfather: Michael: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.”
― Colin Flaherty, 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It