(Editor's note: Colin Flaherty has done more reporting than any other journalist on what appears to be a nationwide trend of skyrocketing black-on-white crime, violence and abuse. WND features these reports to counterbalance the virtual blackout by the rest of the media due to their concerns that reporting such incidents would be inflammatory or even racist. WND considers it racist not to report racial abuse solely because of the skin color of the perpetrators or victims.) Videos linked or embedded may contain foul language and violence.

A St. Paul, Minn., man is in a coma today, fighting for his life after a black mob beat him, stripped his clothes off and left him for dead. Even if he recovers, he will have permanent brain damage.

Ray Widstrand thought he had nothing to fear from moving into a black neighborhood on the East Side of St. Paul. This young white guy and aspiring filmmaker thought he had nothing to fear when he decided to take a Sunday night stroll through his adopted part of town.

Nothing to fear from a crowd of 50 black people fighting outside a nearby party. So he stopped to check it out. Soon, however, the mob's attention turned on him.

"The first person who struck him had hit him with a can in a sock," said one witness in a police report. "The man went down and a 'whole bunch of little eastside boys' began to kick the man. She saw them strip him of his pants and go through the pockets."

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When police arrived, the black mob scattered, leaving only Ray behind.

"He had blood coming from his nose and mouth and was unresponsive," said the police report. "As of August 8th, the prognosis for recovery is slight, and should he live, he will suffer permanent and protracted loss of brain function."

Four black people have been arrested so far.

At a press conference, Ray's father said his son did not feel the neighborhood was dangerous. Ray was a good person, a gentle person, a sweet person, said his friends and family. He liked comic books and posing in superhero outfits for gag photos. As an aspiring filmmaker, Ray contributed the opening sequence of a local cable-access news-talk show about "meeting neighbors, making friends."

This 26-year old free spirit took people as he found them. He hoped for the same. Others in St. Paul know better. At least in that neighborhood.

"This is not super uncommon," said Bob Fox in the reader comment section of the Pioneer Press. "I have seen a white guy or two get surrounded and beat down and robbed quite a few times. Around the bus stops at 5th and Minnesota and 6th and Minnesota are the worst. Damn right it is a hate crime. They attack like a pack of wolves."

Many of the episodes of the black mob violence in the Twin Cities region – and the officials denials they are happening at all – are documented in "White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It."

Get the book that documents racial violence in America, with hundreds of episodes in more than 80 American cities since 2010, where groups of blacks are assaulting, intimidating, stalking, threatening, shooting, stabbing and killing victims.

In the upcoming edition from WND Books, readers can scan a QR code to see video evidence of black mob violence – much of it from the Twin Cities – on their smart phones as they read about it in the book.

There are dozens of examples in the book where some, like Ray, feel invulnerable to the danger of racial violence. Some have died. They were suffering from what psychologists called an inflated sense of safety in overtly dangerous situations: "Infantile omnipotence."

"Some people think they can be safe in a dangerous neighborhood," said Marlin Newburn, a former prison psychologist and author of the upcoming book: "Send Your Kids to Jail: A Manual for the Mutant Parent." "They are like infants. Preadolescents truly feel themselves as 10 feet tall and bullet proof, and the infantalized teen or adult feels the same way: They do not believe what they have not personally experienced."

Earlier this year in Chicago, a jury said much the same thing. The city of Chicago paid $22.5 million to the family of a white woman that city jailers released into a black neighborhood. Soon after meeting with a crowd of black people, she was tossed from a seven-story building. Some still say she jumped to avoid a violent attack.

During the trial, Harvard sociology professor Robert Sampson said it can be routinely expected that white people in black neighborhoods are in danger. He called it RAT: Routine Activity Theory. The judge explained RAT by saying the woman "was a white female in a predominantly black, poor neighborhood (and) she had a much higher risk of predatory victimization."

Judge Frank Easterbrook went on: "She is white and well-off, while the local population is predominantly black and not affluent, causing her to stand out as a person unfamiliar with the environment and, thus, a potential target for crime."

The woman had approached a black resident of a nearby housing project for help but was turned away.

"The woman got on my floor and tried to get in apartment," said one resident to the Chicago ABC affiliate. "I said, 'No, white and black don't mix.'"



The City of Chicago tried to say that RAT was thinly disguised racial profiling. But at the trial, RAT and race were everywhere – no matter how hard the city worked to keep it out. No matter how dedicated local media were to ignoring it.

If Ray depended on the local media for information, he would not have been aware of an epidemic of racial violence in the Twin Cities region. Many examples of this violence are documented, often with video tape, in "White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It."

Last year, a rash of more than a dozen cases of black mob attacks in downtown Minneapolis left at least one man with severe brain injuries as well.

A St. Patrick's Day mauling from 20 black people left a graphic artist with serious brain injuries and no short-term memory.

An hour before he was beat and kicked into the Intensive Care Unit, 20 black people assaulted an out-of-town couple at the exact same intersection. The Star Tribune was squeamish about reporting the race of the criminals, but City Pages was not:

Melissa screamed as three separate youths came at Kirk, throwing punches. Kirk says he was able to dodge the blows. He remembers one of the assailants smiling while he threw punches, "like it was fun." As people on the street started to take notice of the attack, the mob dispersed, leaving Kirk one-on-one with a man he says was over 6 feet tall. "I dodged several of his punches before he ran off," Kirk said, adding that he himself didn't punch anyone. "I believe that if it wasn't for my wife's screaming I would have been seriously injured." Thankfully, he ended up with nothing more than a swollen neck. Melissa, a 33-year-old school teacher, was pushed, and one of the assailants burned her hand with a cigarette, she says. After the mob dispersed, Kirk and Melissa made their way back to the Marquette. There, they talked to a police officer about the incident. Wrote Melissa in an email: The "cop wasn't that interested in taking a report, since we didn't have descriptions – just African-American. … [I] wonder how many people have been attacked, since our story isn't even part of the stats."

There were others, lots of others, at the Mall of America, St. Paul and other places throughout the area.

But the daily papers are loathe to report the race of the perpetrators or how they occur from black mobs exponentially out of proportion.

In September 2011, a group of black people attacked a mobile alcoholic beverage cart in Minneapolis – stealing, threatening. The newspapers dutifully reported the crime, and dutifully ignored the race of the attackers – except for the University of Minnesota newspaper, which in its early editions identified the attackers by race, but removed it in later editions.

Which is how it should be, said Minneapolis police spokesman William Palmer:

"The MPD does not track arrestees by race," said Palmer. "And frankly, no, it doesn't matter. We arrest and prepare criminal cases for consideration of prosecution for those people who choose to break the law. Race has nothing to do with it."

Maybe the City of Chicago should have called Palmer as a witness. Maybe it could have saved the city $22.5 million from a civil judgment that said otherwise.

As the attacks proliferate, so do the denials that race has anything to do with the attacks. But more and more people in the Twin Cities region are wondering what is going on. They also wonder when local media and public officials are going to start to tell the truth about it.

"A gang of African-American males and females beat a white male nearly to death, and it isn't a hate crime?" said Tiffany Johnson in the reader comment section of the Pioneer Press. "And why isn't the NAACP speaking out about this terrible crime?"

"The media continues to dismay with their clear double standard in news coverage regarding their agenda in matters of race," said Keith Olson. "The media loves to sensationalize white-on-black victimization and literally turns a blind eye when the races are reversed. I am not surprised whatsoever that whites are finally showing their displeasure with this sort of distortion when it comes to the propaganda they are fed."

"If you look at the crime stats, the vast majority of such incidents are committed by young black males," said Jim Russell. "We can't help them solve this problem if we won't admit it exists. Don't make it worse by falling for the PC media narratives."

The beating took place Sunday, August 4, but local residents did not learn about it from local media for almost a week. That also brought down a heaping of scorn on local media.

This comment found at the web site of the local ABC affiliate: "These losers stomped on this man's head and practically beat him to death!" said Nicole Rhoades. "Why did it take so long to get news coverage on this story?"

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What can be done to stop onslaught of black violence in U.S.? Nothing needs to be done, the question itself is racist

There is no onslaught of black violence

Reparations would help solve this

Eliminate racist attitudes and policies that fuel poverty and resentment

Better education opportunities for young people in the black community

Fatherhood and families must be restored

The welfare mentality must be replaced with morality and personal responsibility

Have national news media actually do some reporting on it to wake people up to the problem

Real law enforcement that clamps down on crime with severe deterrence

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