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WorldNetDaily Now Peddling White Nationalism

(WND) says it opposes racism in any form. That鈥檚 why the online publication has added a series of articles on 鈥渂lack mob violence鈥 to its usual fare of antigovernment conspiracy theories, gay-bashing, anti-Muslim propaganda, and End Times prophecy.

The series, which began in mid-2012, is penned exclusively for WND by one Colin Flaherty, who according to an editor鈥檚 note posted at the top of his pieces, 鈥渉as done more reporting than any other journalist on what appears to be a nationwide trend of skyrocketing black-on-white crime, violence and abuse.鈥

鈥淲ND,鈥 the editor鈥檚 note says, 鈥渃onsiders it racist聽not to report racial abuse solely because of the skin color of the perpetrators or victims.鈥

Flaherty is a marginal media figure whose main contribution to American literature is a 2011 self-published memoir titled Redwood to Deadwood: A 53-year Old Dude Hitchhikes Around America Again. He caught WND鈥檚 attention with 2012鈥檚 White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It, also self-published, which argues that 鈥渂lack-on-white鈥 attacks have gone through the roof and the only reason you don鈥檛 know about it is because the 鈥渓iberal media鈥 has colluded to keep the story under wraps.

Flaherty catalogues episodes of 鈥渂lack mob violence鈥 with the obsessive care of a true connoisseur. Though he began by writing exclusively about black-on-white attacks, he has lately branched out into covering black-on-black violence, though he rarely bothers to note the race of the victim and always mentions that of the perpetrators.

His most recent article was about a 鈥渂lack mob鈥 attack on University of Wisconsin football star Montee Ball, a young black man whose chances of winning the Heisman Trophy appear to have waned in the wake of head injuries inflicted by five youths who attacked him in August. (Actually, as Flaherty writes it, it鈥檚 not Ball who鈥檚 the victim, but the Heisman Trophy itself.)

As it happens, the 鈥渓iberal media鈥 has had much to say about the subject of violent 鈥渇lash mobs鈥 consisting of mostly black youths 鈥 particularly after several members of a such a group were arrested for attacking white people at 2011鈥檚 Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee.

The New York Times, which WND frequently holds up as a leading light of the 鈥渓iberal media鈥 conspiracy, has repeatedly covered (for instance, and ) violent flash mobs consisting of black youths whose targets were primarily white people and their property.

So has The Root, a blog owned by the Washington Post that examines news 鈥渇rom an African-American perspective.鈥 There, columnist Nsenga Burton of a message delivered by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, who is black and who the mostly black teens who formed a series of mobs that wrought havoc on his city in 2010 and 2011 were 鈥渄amaging the race.鈥

In June, We Are Respectable Negroes, a left-leaning blog that specializes in tackling sensitive racial issues, published two pieces on the issue of 鈥渂lack youth mob violence鈥 ( and ) and the tricky politics of addressing it in writing. So, for that matter, did own Robert Steinback, in a blog post published a week after the attack in Milwaukee.

But unlike mainstream (and, yes, liberal) writers who have pondered the causes and consequences of mob violence among black youths, Flaherty has become popular in white nationalist circles. Several articles from his WND series have been picked up by , a white nationalist hate group that promotes pseudo-scientific studies and research that purport to show the inferiority of blacks to whites.

In July, Flaherty appeared as a guest on the Lowell, Mass.-based Malevolent Freedom Radio, a white nationalist show whose motto is 鈥渆mbrace white culture鈥 and whose logo is the Schwartze Sonne, or black sun, a Nazi occult symbol. Telling Malevolent Freedom host Dean Anderson that he鈥檚 not part of 鈥渢he [White Nationalist] movement,鈥 Flaherty declared, 鈥淚鈥檓 just a guy that likes to write 鈥 I just have my eyes open. My attitude is, I鈥檓 going to tell you what鈥檚 happening now, and if you want to freak out about it, I really don鈥檛 care.鈥

Strange company for a news organization committed to opposing racism. Of course, as WND publisher Joseph Farah bragged (unverifiably but implausibly) in August, WND 鈥渟howcases twice as many black columnists than any other news or commentary forum in the world.鈥

Who are they? Well, there鈥檚 black neo-secessionist Walter E. Williams, who in a 2002 column for WND wrote that Abraham Lincoln 鈥渁cted unconstitutionally and with ruthless contempt for the founding principles鈥 when he refused to let the Confederacy secede peaceably. And Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a black radio personality who once and who in a 2005 column for WND wrote, 鈥淚t was blacks鈥 moral poverty 鈥 not their material poverty 鈥 that cost them dearly in New Orleans鈥 during and after Hurricane Katrina.

There鈥檚 Thomas Sowell, an economist at Stanford鈥檚 Hoover Institute and sometime contributor to the white nationalist Social Contract magazine, whose praise for White Girl Bleed a Lot is featured prominently on that book鈥檚 web site. And Erik Rush, author of Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal 鈥 America鈥檚 Racial Obsession, which argues that 鈥渢he undue and inordinate affinity for blacks (as opposed to antipathy toward them) that has been promoted by activists, politicians and the establishment press for the past 40 years 鈥 has fostered an erroneous perception of blacks, particularly in America,鈥 leading to a state of affairs in which 鈥渞acism on the part of blacks is [considered] acceptable, or even proper.鈥

Yes, WND has binders full of black writers. And now, in keeping perhaps with publisher Farah鈥檚 declaration that his website boasts 鈥渢he broadest spectrum of political opinion to be found anywhere in the world,鈥 it has a white nationalist propagandist too.

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