Colin Flaherty, author of "Don't Make the Black Kids Angry", has spent a great deal of time posting videos of black people attacking white people. Apparently it happens... a lot. The videos are pretty intense, sometimes, and justice has always run a little short in this world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Girl_Bleed_a_Lot

amazon.com/Dont-Make-Black-Kids-Angry/dp/1508585024

Is it socioeconomics? Is it race? Are we allowed to study or even talk about this issue? Interesting questions, to be sure.

Exposure to violence transcends age and SES, affecting all levels of income, education and occupation. Although exposure to violence affects all SES groups, youth from lower SES backgrounds tend to have increased exposure and likelihood of suffering from detrimental future outcomes.

https://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/violence.aspx

The rate at which crime is committed varies greatly between racial groups. While most homicides in the United States are intraracial—the perpetrator and victim are of the same race—the rates at which African Americans (blacks) both commit and are the victim of homicide is about six to eight times higher than that of white Americans. The incarceration rate of blacks is more than three times higher than their representation in the general population.[2] Research shows that the overrepresentation of some minorities in the criminal justice system can be explained mostly by disproportionate rates of crime, but also by socioeconomic factors and racial discrimination by law enforcement and the judicial system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States

It's all pretty standard stuff.

What if it was Colin Flaherty's own kids in these videos though? Not the white victims but the attackers? What would we ascribe THAT violence to?

It's actually not a hypothetical question. A series of police reports and some witness accounts show that both of Colin's children attempted to run over and then violently attacked someone in California. The story is beyond strange and carries on with more violence and drugs.

A young Mormon man is standing alone at night at the end of a cul de sac when an SUV comes racing at him. Jumping aside and using a tree for cover, he has no idea what is going on or who is driving this car. He thinks it is an out of control vehicle. But then the passenger door flies open and out jumps Colin Flaherty's son, throwing punches and screaming obscenities for the whole neighborhood to see and hear. Colin's daughter got out and followed suit against the confused individual who attempted to escape into his friend's house. Colin's children chased him into the house.

I call them children but they were adults. They knew what they were doing. I think Colin's son had about 6 inches in height on this guy. While this individual was hanging out with no less than five girls his age and was outside giving them a minute to change to go swimming, Colin's kids were roaming the streets in their parents' car with the plan and intent of attacking someone. It only seems like one person in this story has their priorities straight. I think he ended up being locked in a bathroom and waiting for the screaming match between the assailants to die down and Colin's kids left.

The story gets more bizarre and involves yet another person moved to violence against the Mormon kid. Colin's daughter convinced her boyfriend to attack him at UCSB. A month or two later after the initial attack, Mormon kid and his friend are playing a game of chess on Halloween night in an open garage while watching the trick or treaters. The boyfriend of Colin's daughter (who is ASIAN, btw) attacks Mormon kid with a SAMURAI SWORD and the police had to take confiscate it. In the midst of holding Mormon kid and his two friends hostage with the sword he broke one students nose with a headbutt.

The Mormon kid never held anyone to task. Neither did the police who have the reports. The white kids and the Asian kid who committed pre-meditated acts of violence were not held accountable by the system or even disrespected by police at any point. They terrorized this kid for years and never faced any kind of accountability.

Colin's kids were kicked out of school later that year for drugs. Not weed, either.

My question is this:

What lead to the acts of violence by Colin Flaherty's kids who then manipulated even one or two others to violence?

Is that different from the videos of black kids attacking white people? Or is it the same thing? Was Colin an absent father figure? Were his kids poor? They certainly AREN'T BLACK but they exhibit the behavior that Colin wants us to think is mostly ascribed to black people. The stats aren't great. True. But the stats clearly don't tell the whole picture.

I get that black communities have a really bad problem with violence relative to a lot of white communities. I wish society was ready to discuss what the mechanisms behind this really are and be able to propose realistic solutions.

I think racism has become such an emotional trigger that we are not allowed to have conversations about real solutions. I don't think Colin Flaherty is on the right track. Not that I want him to stop doing or saying anything. He should do whatever he wants. If nothing else violence should be documented for the world to see in order to learn what not to do and how to better create safe environments.

A video of his children trying to run over a person or the Asian boyfriend leaving dozens of tiny cuts along a kid's neck in juxtaposition with Colin's videos really make me think that he is experiencing a great deal of denial and cognitive dissonance regarding the emotional turmoil within his own family dynamics.

I believe that is easy for people to get trapped in emotional cycles no matter what race and that being trapped in these dynamics only gets worse with each act of violence. Whether or not you are the victim of violence or the perpetrator violence has an immediate psychological effect a longer lasting hormonal effect and an even longer lasting epigenetic effect.

I got a few tidbits from witnesses but the Mormon kid's response was this:

"[Colin's daughter] had a romantic interest in me. [Colin's Wife] had a romantic interest in me. [Asian Guy] had a romantic interest in me. Their chaos is their own. I'm fortunate. The experience taught me that there are people out there with certain personality types that you should avoid. I've been able to side step other manipulations and attacks that only come from those types of people. They don't really know how to be happy and they can only fake it for so long."

But I'm sure they all grew up to be doctors lawyers or FBI Agents or something.

I often feel like Jimi Hendrix and Morgan Freeman were right. I liked their approach. It was basically, "Why don't you stop calling me a black man and I'll stop calling you a white man, and we just start calling each other "men." I bet it would help if more people felt that way.