AS 'KNOCKOUT GAME' GROWS, AUTHOR WAS AHEAD OF THE NEWS
In 2012 author Colin Flaherty published his book chronicling the "epidemic of black mob violence" and was immediately labeled a racist for his central thesis that racial violence is growing in the United States despite the claims that violent crime statistics have fallen in recent decades.
Flaherty's book declares that, "Racial violence is exploding across the country. Cops deny it. Newspapers do too. Thank God for YouTube."
"Racial violence is back," the book begins, "In hundreds of episodes across the country since 2010, groups of black people are roaming the streets of America intimidating, stalking, vandalizing, stealing, shooting, stabbing, raping, and killing. But the local media and public officials are largely silent about the problem."
This sort of rhetoric is, of course, quite incendiary in this day of political correctness. A soon as the book came out Flaherty was attacked as a racist. His facts were challenged as over generalizations and his conclusions called unsupportable.
Only weeks after Flaherty's book came out, Salon.com insinuated that the American right was filled with racists and the book proved that conservatives have "suddenly became very, very frightened of black people."
All that finger pointing and name calling, however, may seem unfair with news exploding all across the country that gangs of black youth are indulging the "knock out game" in cities all over--even as the media is reticent to identify the racial aspect of the mounting crime wave. . . .
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