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Are Race Riots News? (Thomas Sowell)
Creatots Syndicate ^ | July 17, 2012 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 07/16/2012 9:09:45 AM PDT by jazusamo

When I first saw a book with the title, "White Girl Bleed A Lot" by Colin Flaherty, I instantly knew what it was about, even though I had not seen the book reviewed anywhere, and knew nothing about the author.

That is because I had encountered that phrase before, while doing research for the four new chapters on intellectuals and race that I added to the revised edition of my own book, "Intellectuals and Society," published this year.

That phrase was spoken by a member of a mob of young blacks who attacked whites at random at a Fourth of July celebration in Milwaukee last year. What I was appalled to learn, in the course of my research, was that such race riots have occurred in other cities across the United States in recent years — and that the national mainstream media usually ignore these riots.

Where the violence is too widespread and too widely known locally to be ignored, both the local media and public officials often describe what happened as unspecified "young people" attacking unspecified victims for unspecified reasons. But videos of the attacks often reveal both the racial nature of these attacks and the racial hostility expressed by the attackers.

Are race riots not news?

Ignoring racial violence only guarantees that it will get worse. The Chicago Tribune has publicly rationalized its filtering out of any racial identification of attackers and their victims, even though the media do not hesitate to mention race when decrying statistical disparities in arrest or imprisonment rates.

Such mob attacks have become so frequent in Chicago that officials promoting conventions there have recently complained to the mayor that the city is going to lose business if such widespread violence is not brought under control.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; amish; blackonwhite; holder; obama; racehustlers; raceriots; racism; sowell; thomassowell
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To: Chode; Travis McGee

” UP!!! it’s gonna be a long summer... “

Fall ain’t gonna be so swell either : )


41 posted on 07/17/2012 11:29:22 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
yup, and after he loses the election, all bets are off...
42 posted on 07/17/2012 2:38:08 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

send your uncle White Girl Bleed a Lot:

http://whitegirlbleedalot.com

hundreds of examples, with links.


43 posted on 07/18/2012 7:28:53 PM PDT by Mary Robinson (hate crime, flash rob, race riot, white girl bleed a lot)
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To: Chode
UP!!! it's gonna be a long summer...

See the events of the Summer of 1919 in Chicago.

Things were a little salty in those days before air conditioning.... But folks found their own entertainment.


44 posted on 07/19/2012 1:47:21 PM PDT by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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To: archy
we won't light the fire, but we can damn sure put it out...
45 posted on 07/19/2012 4:52:44 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Mary Robinson

Thanks for the link


46 posted on 07/21/2012 9:57:40 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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