The Knockout Game: Racial Violence and the Conspicuous Silence of the Media

By John T. Bennett

By now, almost everyone has seen one of the semi-amusing videos of black teen mobs rampaging through a store.  
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Most Americans have heard of recent violent  "flash mobs," which are the bands of black teens that attack mostly white victims and white businesses, as even the New York Times once noted....


But...There is also the "knockout game," which is stunning in its brutal simplicity and stark racial significance.
 
The knockout game involves "unprovoked attacks on innocent bystanders," according to police who have had to deal with it.  A retired officer explained, "Normally it was a group of black males, one of which would strike him as hard as he could in the face, attempting to knock him out with one punch,"
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The knockout game has claimed at least one life so far.  In St. Louis this year, 72-year old Hoang Nguyen was walking with his wife, Yen, when four "young people" attacked.  The attacker pushed the old man's face to the side to make a "clear target for his fist," recalled his wife. 
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Hoang succumbed to his injuries later that day.  A young black male, 18-year-old Elex Murphy, is charged with first-degree murder.
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In addition, a mob of young black males can be seen playing the game here.  The video shows the group attacking a young white man named Adam Taylor, who was left with internal bleeding, bruising of the brain, severe whiplash, and scratches on his face when he was beaten in Columbia, MO in 2009.


Sgt. Pizzo noted that the attacks fit a pattern: "black attackers on a white victim -- and the victim was often an older person walking alone."  In a thorough and sensible piece on the subject in a local arts and entertainment magazine, eight of the victims interviewed were white, one was black, and one was Latino.  All of the attackers, or "players," were black. 
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Local media outlets have failed to report on the racial aspect of the attacks.

A New York Times editor says that his paper will report on race "only if it's relevant to the story" or if readers would "learn something" from the description.  



The Chicago Tribune's editor, Gerould Kern, explains his paper's "approach" to concealing the truth: "We do not reference race unless it is a fact that is central to telling the story."  Of course, no guilt-ridden white liberal editor will ever admit that race is relevant, unless of course a white is attacking minorities.

The Los Angeles Times explains that the media will not report race because they don't want to "unfairly stigmatize racial groups."

The Washington Post ombudsman openly admits that the Times's staff  "worried about hyping a story that involved race" when blacks brawled on the Metro.  Instead of stigmatizing racial groups, the liberal media prefers to condemn minorities via low expectations and preferential, secretive reporting -- which only creates a cloud of ominous suspicion over the race issue.  But at least racial groups aren't being stigmatized.

A senior reporter from the Houston Chronicle admits, "We don't ever include race normally -- unless race is made an issue by other people."  In other words, if racial interest groups make something of the issue, race will become part of the story.  And we all know which racial groups advocate on their own behalf, and which one doesn't.

 
 

4 Black guys attacking a 72 year old man.  What a bunch of worthless chickenshits.

Guess what, you black asswipes?  "Liberal Guilt" is fading fast.  Ever notice how none of your Liberal friends live in the 'hood?