{"id":1307,"date":"2015-06-05T18:41:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T22:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2015-06-05T18:41:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T22:41:26","slug":"a-review-of-a-momentous-book-colin-flahertys-dont-make-the-black-kids-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2015\/06\/a-review-of-a-momentous-book-colin-flahertys-dont-make-the-black-kids-angry.html","title":{"rendered":"A Review of a Momentous Book: Colin Flaherty’s, “Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin Flaherty, the author of the best-seller, White Girl Bleed A lot, <\/em>has once again revealed his heroism in his latest, Don\u2019t Make the Black Kids Angry.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not since Ilana Mercer\u2019s, Into the Cannibal\u2019s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa, <\/em>have we witnessed such steely resolve in reckoning with the great unmentionable evil of black criminality and violence.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Make the Black Kids Angry <\/em>consists of 511 pages, 944 endnotes, and a super abundance of references to videos meticulously documenting over 1,000 <\/em>instances of black mob violence spanning just the last few years<\/em>.<\/p>\n

From sea to shining sea, in hundreds of cities both large and small, and in every<\/em> region of the country, mobs of (mostly young) black people\u2014males and females<\/em>\u2014have been busy unleashing reigns of terror upon virtually every other conceivable demographic: whites, Hispanics, and Asians; homosexuals; Jews; the elderly; women, small children, even babies; the mentally and physically disabled; bicyclists and hikers; veterans; Sikhs; and students.<\/p>\n

The terror knows no boundaries. It takes holidays, but it takes them hostage, for Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, and even Christmas Day have repeatedly<\/em> been occasions for mass property destruction, brutal beatings, stabbings, and shootings. And beaches, parades, malls, shopping centers, sports stadia, high schools, college campuses, festivals (including Asian <\/em>festivals), gas stations, parks, and biking trails have been among the locations for these displays of inhumanity.<\/p>\n

Of course, we\u2019d be remiss if we didn\u2019t list the police among the victims of black mob violence. It\u2019s always the same: Hundreds <\/em>of black people set their sights upon the properties and persons of their victims, the thin blue line asserts itself, and the rioters attack the forces of law and order with a range of weaponry: rocks, bricks, bottles, and\u2014get this\u2014even fireworks, <\/em>i.e. makeshift bombs.<\/p>\n

While the terror of Islamic militants is accompanied by cries to Allah, that of the black mobs is accompanied by\u2026laughing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lots of laughing.<\/p>\n

Flaherty frequently cites Marlin Newburn, a prison psychologist who \u201chas been on the front lines of racial violence for 30 years.\u201d According to Newburn, these \u201cpredators,\u201d do not <\/em>reflect \u201ca subculture,\u201d but \u201ca primary part of the black culture [.]\u201d This culture \u201cis one of sadistic and primitive impulse where they [the predators] believe themselves to be 10 feet tall, bulletproof, very smart, good looking, gifted, and tougher than anyone.\u201d These \u201cpredators\u201d live \u201cwithout any sense of personal responsibility or boundaries with others.\u201d Hence, while \u201cassaulting or killing someone, the absence of a conscience is considered among their peers as an indicator of strength and power.\u201d The expression of \u201cjoy in the process [of violence] only heightens their street cred.\u201d<\/p>\n

When two Muslim thugs shot up Charlie Hebdo, segments of the American media were apoplectic over the number of France\u2019s \u201cNo-Go\u201d zones, Islamic neighborhoods that non-Muslims dare not enter. Yet America has had legions of its own No-Go zones for decades: We just call them \u201cinner cities.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is no hyperbole.<\/p>\n

Flaherty relays the story of a \u201cCalifornian college girl\u201d who was arrested at an airport in Chicago and then released by police into the city\u2019s \u201cdeepest and most dangerous ghetto [.]\u201d Within no time, she was set upon and thrown from the top of a seven-story building. <\/em>Her family sued the city. During the trial, a professor from Harvard introduced the court to \u201cRoutine Activities Theory\u201d (RAT), the fancy name given by specialists to the phenomenon of violence committed by blacks against whites who pass through black neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

The judge presiding over the trial declared that being a white woman \u201c\u2018in a predominantly black, poor neighborhood,\u201d the victim \u201chad a much higher risk of predatory victimization.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Translation: For whites, areas that are \u201cpredominantly black\u201d and \u201cpoor\u201d are No-Go Zones.<\/p>\n

Flaherty speaks to another dimension of this national scourge of black mob violence that is no less frightening than the violence itself:<\/p>\n

The vermin in the streets that are traumatizing, hospitalizing, and murdering innocents have enablers and even apologists in the media.<\/p>\n

Whether locally or nationally, members of the press invariably ignore or otherwise misrepresent the nature of black mob violence. Readers of this column know the drill: Reporters either won\u2019t remark at all on black-on-non-black terror or, if they do, they fail to mention the races of the attackers and their victims, choosing instead to refer to the assailants simply as \u201cteens\u201d while waxing perplexed as to how or why the incident in question occurred.<\/p>\n

No short supply of media talking heads, along with their accomplices in academia, Hollywood, and Washington D.C., go so far as to excuse black mob violence. The most common strategy of choice is to invoke what is known in academia as \u201cCritical Race Theory\u201d (CRT), the theory that, ultimately, black criminals are the victims, <\/em>the victims of \u201cinstitutional racism.\u201d Their white prey, though, are the real culprits, for they enjoy \u201cwhite skin privilege\u201d courtesy of an incorrigibly racist society.<\/p>\n

Flaherty nicely distills the essence of CRT: \u201cCritical Race Theory says three things: White racism is permanent, everywhere and explains everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The apologists are what Hannah Arendt referred to as \u201caccessories\u201d to the crimes of those for whom they run cover. Thus, they too shoulder responsibility for this wickedness.<\/p>\n

Flaherty writes: \u201cI\u2019m not frightened of black mob violence. But I am terrified of the bat shit crazy people in the media and government who ignore it, condone it, encourage it, and even lie about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He concludes: \u201cNow those <\/em>folks are dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colin Flaherty is a national treasure. It is at our peril that we neglect his Don\u2019t Make the Black Kids Angry. <\/em><\/p>\n

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