New York City police authorities are investigating a series
of unprovoked physical attacks in public places on people who are Jewish, in
the form of what is called “the knockout game.”
The way the game is played, one of a number of young blacks
decides to show that he can knock down some stranger on the streets, preferably
with one punch, as they pass by.
Often, some other member of the group records
the event so that a video of that “achievement” is put on the Internet to be
celebrated.
The New York authorities describe a recent series of such
attacks and, because Jews have been singled out in these attacks, are
considering prosecuting these assaults as hate crimes.
Many aspects of these crimes are extremely painful to think
about, including the fact that responsible authorities in New York seem to have
been caught by surprise, even though this knockout game has been played for
years by young black gangs in other cities and other states, against people
besides Jews — the victims being either whites in general or people of Asian
ancestry.
Attacks of this sort have been rampant in St. Louis. But
they have also occurred in Massachusetts, Wisconsin and elsewhere. In Illinois,
the game has often been called “polar-bear hunting” by the young thugs,
presumably because the targets are white.
The main reason for many people’s surprise is that the
mainstream media have usually suppressed news about the knockout game or about
other and larger forms of similar orchestrated racial violence in dozens of
cities in every region of the country.
Sometimes, the attacks are reported, but
only as isolated attacks by unspecified “teens” or “young people” against
unspecified victims, without any reference to the racial makeup of the
attackers or the victims — and with no mention of racial epithets by the young
hoodlums exulting in their own “achievement.”
Despite such pious phrases as “troubled youths,” the
attackers are often in a merry, festive mood. In a sustained mass attack in
Milwaukee, going far beyond the dimensions of a passing knockout game, the
attackers were laughing and eating chips, as if it were a picnic. One of them
observed casually, “White girl bleed a lot.”
That phrase — “White Girl Bleed a Lot” — is also the title
of a book by Colin Flaherty, which documents both the racial attacks across the
nation and the media attempts to cover them up, as well as the local political
and police officials who try to say that race had nothing to do with these
attacks.
Chapter 2 of the 2013 edition is titled “The Knockout Game,
St. Louis Style.” So this is nothing new, however new it may be to some in New
York, thanks to the media’s political correctness.
Nor is this game just a passing prank. People have been
beaten unconscious, both in this game and in the wider orchestrated racial attacks.
Some of these victims have been permanently disabled, and some have died from
their injuries.
But most of the media see no evil, hear no evil and speak no
evil. In such an atmosphere, the evil not only persists but grows.
Some in the media, as well as in politics, may think that
they are trying to avoid provoking a race war by ignoring or playing down these
attacks. But the way to prevent a race war is by stopping these attacks, not
trying to sanitize them.
If these attacks continue, and continue to grow, more and
more people are going to know about them, regardless of the media or the
politicians. Responsible people of all races need to support a crackdown on
these attacks, which can provoke a white backlash that can escalate into a race
war. But political expediency leads in the opposite direction.
What is politically expedient is to do what Attorney General
Eric Holder is doing — launch campaigns against schools that discipline a
“disproportionate” number of black male students. New York City’s new liberal
mayor-elect is expected to put a stop to police “stop-and-frisk” policies that
have reduced the murder rate to one-fourth of what it was under liberal mayors
of the past.
Apparently, political correctness trumps human lives.
Providing cover for hoodlums is a disservice to everybody,
including members of every race, and even the hoodlums themselves. Better that
they should be suppressed and punished now, rather than continue on a path that
is likely to lead to prison, or even to the execution chamber.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University.
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