A new book from Washington Post-award winning reporter Colin Flaherty. Along with reviews and interviews from around the country: "Important." "Brave."
Order here from iTunes for iPads and iPhones.  | Race Riots are Back: White Girl Bleed a Lot.A New book from Washington Post-award winning reporter Colin Flaherty Race riots are back. Along with widespread racial crime and violence. In hundreds of episodes in more than 50 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. But local media and public officials are silent. Crime is color blind, says a Milwaukee police chief. Race is not important, a Chicago newspaper editor says. That denies the obvious: America is the most race conscious society in the world. 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. Everything except black violent crime. That is Taboo. Result: Few know about it. Fewer still are talking about it. The list of cities under attack is long and getting longer -- with some cities suffering dozens of attacks in the last year alone: Almost as astonishing is the willingness of people in authority and in the media to deny it. Ignore it. Explain it away. Even condone and lie about it. In Chicago, after weeks of racial violence where the newspapers refused to mention the crime was almost exclusively black gangs on individual whites, the Superintendent of the Police said he knew what was causing the violence: Sarah Palin. A member of Congress from Chicago, Bobby Rush, said black violence in Chicago was routine and the only reason anyone was paying attention to the race riots in downtown Chicago was because it was it was black on white violence. This is a theme heard in Rochester, Washington, D.C., and dozens of other places: ‘What’s the big deal? This has been happening a long time in black neighborhoods.’ Congressman Rush is probably right. Which means this problem is hundreds of times worse than we think. |
Colin Flaherty
Award Winning Investigative Reporter
Colin Flaherty's work and by-line has appeared in over 1000 newspapers and magazines around the world, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, San Diego Union Tribune, Time Magazine, and others, including:
San Diego Union-Tribune.
"It is abundantly clear that Kelvin Wiley would still be locked up were it not for the efforts of an investigative reporter acting on his own, Colin Flaherty, who dug for the facts that should have been seeking to prove Wiley's guilt or innocence."
Los Angeles Times
“Time and time again, Flaherty's investigation, which he detailed in an article for the weekly San Diego publication The Reader last fall, raised issues about DiGiovanni's credibility and the thoroughness of the investigation into the incident.”
San Diego Business Journal
“Colin Flaherty was one of the best reporters I've ever worked with. He was a total bulldog with great sources. If I could assemble a dream-team reporting staff, Colin would be on it!”
(former) Editor
San Diego Business Journal
San Diego Press Club and
Society of Professional Journalists:
Best of Show -- Two Times
Best Political Reporter -- Two Times
Best Columnist -- Four Times
Best Investigative -- Two Times
And 40 others ...
Writers ON FLAHERTY:
"Colin Flaherty is a strong favorite."
David Ignatius
Washington Post Columnist.
New York Times Best Selling Author
"Great Reporter."
John Stryker Meyer
Author of “Over the Fence: The Secret War in Viet Nam”
"Flaherty is one of the best writers in America."
Jimmy Lee Shreeve
Author of Dr. Snake
“Colin Flaherty is one of the best reporters I've ever worked with.
Christi Dunn
Former Editor
San Diego Business Journal
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