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Colin Flaherty, author, journalist, and tireless reporter on black crime, has died. This is tragic in and of itself, of course, since, at the age of 66, the man was taken by cancer before his time. But for dissidents today, his passing has an even deeper meaning.
As of a few years ago, Flaherty was still a (barely) respectable mainstream writer who, while rankling many on the Left with blunt truths about black crime, still eschewed true dissidence. In his writings, he opposed “racism” and racial identity and spoke out for all victims of black crime, regardless of race. He abstained from offering explanations for the high rate of black crime (such as genetic proclivity towards violence, low general intelligence, and poor impulse control) and further abstained from calling for whites to organize in support of their racial interests. He just stuck with the awful facts, and let his audience come to their own conclusions.
The mainstream media also never left his crosshairs. He continually reported on the media’s excuse-mongering and cover-ups for black crime. Much of Flaherty’s work was aimed at busting the myth of black victimhood. He turned a deaf ear to all egalitarian moralizing and anti-white finger-pointing coming from the Left and put the blame squarely on the shoulders of black criminals themselves, as well as on the media elites who tacitly allow black crime to fester through their deliberate lack of interest. He never offered mitigating excuses for either of these offenses and never stopped caring about their victims. In his oft-banned YouTube videos, he’d euphemistically refer to his black subjects as “the fellas,” and underscore all their senselessness and barbarity with a wit both world-weary and irrepressible.
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His work often appeared in conservative outlets such as WND, Front Page Magazine, and American Thinker — and, before his turn towards black crime reporting, in mainstream publications such as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Time Magazine. His black crime books White Girl Bleed a Lot (WND Books, 2013), Knockout Game a Lie?: Awww, Hell No! (BookBaby, 2014), and Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015) — great titles, all — were reviewed in mainstream publications such as The Village Voice and The Washington Post (as well as by yours truly in Counter-Currents in 2016). He also received high praise from black conservatives such as Thomas Sowell and Allen West.
For the Dissident Right, however, Flaherty’s passing should be especially tragic given how, only in the past few years, he accelerated his rightward trek away from the mainstream. In what I call the Consolidation of the Right, we’ve been seeing recently how some conservative or independent writers, pundits, and opinion-makers have begun working with white identitarians and nationalists. Examples include Michelle Malkin speaking at the 2021 American Renaissance conference, Jim Goad joining Counter-Currents in 2020, and Colin Flaherty developing a positive relationship with Jared Taylor in 2019. These are all wonderful developments, not least because a writer of Flaherty’s prominence lends great credibility to notions such as race realism and white identity, the adherents of which the far Left would like to marginalize. People on the Right are beginning to realize that what we have in common far outweighs our differences, especially in the face of encroaching Leftist totalitarianism. It is thanks to people like Flaherty that this consolidation is taking place at all.
This is why his death is so untimely. I’m terribly sorry to see him go. They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but not so with Colin Flaherty. As a dissident he was just getting started.
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25 comments
I really liked this man. Respect.
one of the very few that would tell you the TRUTH….
Very sad. The other one who works with a focus on black crime is “Paul Kersey”. But I don’t think Kersey has as much Mainstream cachet. Spencer summed up the loss very nicely.
Another guy who focuses on black crime is Nicholas Stix. However, he doesn’t seem to write much any more compared to how much he was writing several years ago. I always read him on VDARE.
Respect.
What a shame. It was through the writing and videos of Colin Flaherty I first became aware of the seriousness of black crime in the US. I had read he was ill, but didn’t realize it was that advanced.
Vale Mr Flaherty.
He will be missed. His videos helped me red pill a few of our people. RIP Colin.
Very nice summary from an outsider’s perspective, Spencer. I of course knew him professionally and personally (stop me if you’ve heard this) for many years, and may do my own memorial piece shortly. What the average person usually misses is that Colin had a long career as a highly regarded political writer and public-relations executive. He was well connected, in California, Delaware, and DC, through politics, print media and radio. His father-in-law was a veteran congressman, while Colin’s brother was aide to a certain prominent politician whom we see every day.
I’d definitely be interested in reading that. I’ve seen you two reminisce with each other on Twitter.
The big guy was truly one of a kind.
My last memory of Mr. Flaherty is an informal and very funny hourlong chat he recorded with Jared Taylor in the latter’s backyard, sometime in August 2021. Both men appear as lifelong chums who taste the conversational menu with ease and joy. You can find it on Odysee.
I have never heard of Colin Flaherty. I am relatively new to the “dissident right,” at least as far as reading up on and being informed on issues that I have naturally had for most of my life. The last couple of years I have been dealing with my own health issues which has given me the time and opportunity to do a lot more reading than I previously had. (I am a carpenter by trade, so by the end of the day I was beat tired and just wanted to get home, take a shower, eat, and wind down with mindless tv, to just do it all over the next day.)
My brother turned me on to this site as he was a big supporter of Jim Goad. After reading up on a ton of Jim’s previous pieces, I started to explore more of the other writers on this site and have absolutely enjoyed all that this site has to offer. After a bit of time, I gathered the nerve to jump in to the comments and put my two cents in. In doing so, I have engaged in some great banter with others that I agree with, but better yet, others that I don’t necessarily agree with, and have put my foot in my mouth more than a few times. Point being, all of the information and knowledge that I have gained is priceless and I want to acknowledge and thank all the writers, contributors, moderators, and fellow readers for the privilege to engage. I have just begun to explore all that Colin Flaherty has contributed to the conversation and I am already hooked. Thanks again and Rest In Peace Brother.
Welcome to the Counter Currents community, matt marchi.
RIP Colin Flaherty.
R.I.P
I’m sorry to see Colin go. I always admired his work and found his pieces informative and always backed up what we have been saying. He was great on visuals.
I was bothered that he refused to discuss the genetic and cultural problems of black crime, but as Quinn said, he let people draw their own conclusions.
What Hunter Wallace (Occidental Dissent) said is true, in that the ‘racist’ assertions of Colin and many of us are slowly entering mainstream white thinking. As Macbeth said, I said the less but thought the more. Well, we’re seeing more thinking, and events are forcing people to see reality.
Matt Marchi, keep reading and thinking. Look and observe. There are a lot websites out here, and if we all have our differences, we have many common threads.
You can never have too many carpenters in our group. Now it’s time for you to build your mind as you built houses. We need you.
The author was correct to call this great man “irrepressible”.
Each time he was banned from one platform he would reappear on two new ones. And build an impressive number of followers.
And what may have outraged the Left most was his Irish wit. He loved to skewer black thugs and their white defenders.
RIP.
I read a statistic that will challenge your racist assumptions! Blacks’ wisdom teeth erupt between the ages of 13 and 16, as compared to the average age of 20 for whites. Blacks are more precocious than whites in this instance. How do you account for that? My wisdom teeth erupted at twelve I think.
OT – I was reading the other day that Africans have one of the lowest cavity rates in the world due to less depleted soils in which to grow crops than the US. (The loss of minerals directly related to tooth decay).
“Because of soil depletion, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and-nutrition-loss/
It’s also been said that because Africans having been exposed to so much more sunshine for millennia, and this continues today, that this would also explain better teeth. You know, sunshine = Vitamin D = calcium getting to where it is needed (teeth and bones and better overall health).
But they fare less well healthwise after living in temperate climates.
Yes, exactly. I understand approximately 40% of Whites in the US are also deficient in Vitamin D and need to supplement.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2011/11/caucasians-who-avoid-sun-exposure-more-likely-to-be-vitamin-d-deficient-study-shows
“But they fare less well healthwise after living in temperate climates”.
True, and they are of course welcome to return to their Motherland. https://repatriatetoghana.com/
Thanks for your comment.
True, and they are of course welcome to return to their Motherland.
LOL!
And I’d return to my motherland if it was properly cleared out first.
“And I’d return to my motherland if it was properly cleared out first”.
Me too ! It would be heaven compared to this 🙂 …
I think a lot of people misunderstood Flaherty. He was just being an ethical and honest reporter. He really was not supposed to draw conclusions about the whys of all this criminal violence. Colin was simply doing the job all these other reporters should be doing as a minimum. The exposure of the unbelievable corruption of our press is his greatest legacy.
Flaherty was also willing to take it the streets, or highways! Here is an action he led on Interstate-95 in support of the rights of victims of the “fellas.”
https://conservativefiringline.com/investigative-journalist-colin-flaherty-holds-peaceful-victims-matter-rally/
https://www.newswars.com/victims-matter-protesters-shut-down-i-95-in-wilmington-delaware/
Judging from the reports, this is the kind of flash demo which provides useful lessons for national-populist activists. Let’s see Flaherty’s memory inspire more such actions.
Colin’s work is what red-pilled me. Around 2016 I listened to a debate on NPR about BLM, a moderate “conservative” guest mentioned black on black crime as the greater threat to blacks than police killings.
I remeber feeling indignant about this retort. Like it was deflecting from what I thought was a problem at the time. Being left-wing.
In a moment of curiosity, I googled black on black crime. And then for some reason I decided to Google black on white crime. There had been an increase in crime in my neighborhood, including a drive by shooting near my daughter’s preschool. I wanted to learn all the facts.
In my Google results, I discovered Colin’s work. I was shocked beyond belief. Not just upon learning of the scale of black violence, but the sadism and gratuitousness of it. I remeber thinking, “poverty cannot be the cause of the viciousness of these crimes, or the large numbers of rapes.”
In the YouTube comments, people talked about race and IQ. I was shocked by this as well, but decided to investigate. Around this time, I had grown tired and disillusioned with the left. I was willing to question everything. So I looked up race and IQ. Low and behold, I discovered Jared Taylor.
I remember the first AmRen video I watched on YouTube, my heart was racing, it felt like I was doing something wrong, or even evil. I questioned these feelings as they where puzzling. Why should I feel this way about a video presentation? Had I been conditioned to respond this way?
I went down the right wing rabbit whole after this. Discovering red ice radio via an interview they did with Colin. I then found a Jonathan Bowden video through the algorithm. He mentioned counter-currents as a great website. After discovering Counter-currents I was shocked to learn the right actually an intellectual foundation. You don’t have to be a redneck yokel to be right-wing and it actually has a long history of sound thinking behind it.
I believe none of this would have happened if it weren’t for Flaherty and his work.
That’s a great story. Thank you. I’ve been doing this for years and I still haven’t plumbed the depths of right-wing thought. There’s an incredible amount to go through.
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