White Girl Bleed A Lot by Colin Flaherty

Author:Colin Flaherty
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: WND Books
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

It even has its own Wikipedia page:

There were reports of widespread brawling, vandalism, and weapons being brandished. Damage to local businesses exceeded $100,000.

Much of the violence was perpetrated by black men against white revelers, and about 70 people were reported injured. Several women were sexually assaulted. One person, Kris Kime, died of injuries sustained during an attempt to assist a woman being brutalized.8

The Seattle News Weekly said the unsayable:_

For the millions who saw the photos or video, those images burned into the retina: gangs of feral youth beating, kicking, and pummeling male and female victims.

In almost all of the violent images of that night on TV and in the daily newspapers, the attackers were black and the victims were white. Thanks to our local media, this is the idea of the 2001 Mardi Gras riots that most people carry with them. The poster victim of Fat Tuesday, Kris Kime, was also white, and police now say the suspects in his murder are black. The fallout from all this is that many people assume the attacks were racially motivated.9

Whatever the “fallout,” the one person convicted of murder that night, Jerell Thomas, served eight years before getting out on a technicality. Within a few months, he was back in for assaulting his girlfriend.

Today, people make videos of the site, which includes a memorial plaque. For all the visible violence in Seattle, city officials are adamant that their town is safer. Just look at the statistics, they plead.

That is what happened to Nihan Thai in January 2012. He became a statistic when he was assaulted and robbed. Earlier this year, he talked to KING5, a local TV news station about the crime. He was walking home from the light rail station, (there’s that bus thing again):

I was literally ten steps away from the house. And I felt a hit on my right face and another hit on the back of my neck and on my lower back, and so as I was falling forward I felt hands grabbing my jacket and my bag,” said Thai.

Two months later, not far from where Thai was attacked, another man was grabbed from behind, robbed and beaten. His name was Danny Vega, and he died.10

Thai, like Vega, is Asian and openly gay. Before he died, Vega told police he’d been “attacked by three African-American males, all around 18 years of age.” It was the tenth such attack in that area in two months, all near the corner of Martin Luther King Way and Othello Street.11

After the attack, Thai went door to door to find out how widespread the problem was. He was conducting his own crime survey.

Thai knocked on 49 doors. 32 people were home. How many of them had been victims of a crime since moving to the neighborhood? All but three.

Many victims told Thai they’d never reported the crimes to police.

“It happens to them so often that after 2 or 3 times they stopped reporting because they didn’t see any progress,” said Thai.

Thai’s survey was

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