The "New" Old Time Racism and "White Girl Bleed a Lot"

"White Girl Bleed a Lot"- which I haven't read and have no intention of reading- is a book that purportedly (read bullshitingly) claims that America is suffering a "horrific" (the author's word in an interview with Front Page Magazine, which I will not link to) outbreak of black mob rioting in over 70 cities.

What? You didn't know this "fact"? That's because the librul media is hiding it from you- according to the author, Colin Flaherty, natch.

Here's a piece I will link to: Alex Pareen in Salon:

We get a lot of unsolicited batshit racist email here at Salon HQ, as pretty much all media outlets do, but this one — which went to just about everyone on staff in one form or another — was a good example of not really crafting a message that will convince or appeal to your chosen audience:

Hi Alex,

Thomas Sowell says he did not know how bad racial violence really was until he read “White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It.”

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So, this Flaherty guy is pretty sure that there’s a black crime wave going on, and also that there is a conspiracy — by the media and the police — to cover up this crime wave by not always pointing out when the perpetrators of crimes are black. His evidence? YouTube clips and newspaper comment sections, mostly. The book seems to be a collection of literally every single crime Flaherty could find, over the last few years, involving black perpetrators and white victims (though some involve incidents where the victims were black, and in many incidents the “victim” was property owned by white people), plus a lot of material on roving, rampaging gangs of black teenagers. Exciting stuff! Look, Thomas Sowell loved it, because it shows how dangerously close we are to an actual racial civil war:

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I’ve never been entirely clear on the definition of the right-wing epithet “race hustler” (it usually seems to mean “a black person who talks about racism”), but I’d figure a person writing a silly book designed solely to scare white people would qualify.

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But this epidemic of racial crime isn’t an epidemic. It’s barely a blip. According to the FBI, there were 575 crimes motivated by anti-white bias in 2010, nationwide. There were 545 anti-white crimes in 2009 and 716 in 2008. There were more than 2,000 crimes motivated by anti-black bias in each one of those years. Of course, the book insinuates that all black-on-white crime is racially motivated, but even by that standard things are looking pretty rosy in America right now.

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http://www.salon.com/2012/08/13/why_conservatives_obsess_over_flash_mobs_and_race_riots/

So why post about this stupid racist piece of shit book? Because more and more of this shit is piling up and infecting the larger society and expect to hear more and more of it as the elections of 2014 draw closer.

Racism is demonization. It's not only ugly, it's dangerous. And racism against African Americans is what is still epidemic in this country and institutionalized.