Shine a bright light on any given
black-perpetrated racial atrocity, stand back, and observe the double standards
and double talk. The recent “knockout
whitey game” provides just that opportunity.
Of the many doubles candidates, I choose one for your consideration.
On November 25, 2013, TheGrio.com
commented about black-on-white attacks being reported in so-called legacy
media. (According to the website, “TheGrio.com
is the first video-centric news community site devoted to providing African
Americans with stories and perspectives that appeal to them but are
underrepresented in existing national news outlets.”) The piece by Will Wright was entitled, “How
‘knockout game’ hysteria hurts black America.”
Let’s start with the title. Mr. Wright refers to white “hysteria." By doing so, he implies that white people are
overreacting, irrationally emotional in their excessive attention to the
assaults, and in so doing he delegitimizes the white concerns. Consider too that his title underscores that
he wants the reader to focus on how white hysteria hurts black
America. Wright is not concerned
with morality or lawfulness. He
expresses not one scintilla of empathy for the white victims
of black
crime. He focuses on the color
of offender’s skin, not on the content of the offender’s character. In fact, the author begins the body of his
paper by framing the knockout “game” in terms of the “Central Park Jogger”
incident which he regards as an example of black “youth” being unjustly accused
of a crime against a white girl—another attempt to discount white knock out game concerns.
Repeatedly, Wright questions how
serious the current assaults are. The
absurdity of his position is blatantly obvious in the following statement:
New York City police officials are struggling to determine whether
they should advise the public to take precautions against the ‘knockout game’ —
whether in fact it is a growing dangerous trend, or something that has been
ongoing and just recently rose to the surface.
The above remarks are mystifying. Is Mr. Wright suggesting that “the public,”
that is, the white public, should be more or less concerned if the “game” is a
“trend” versus “something that has been going on?” Would the punch be less painful or less
destructive in either case? Wright’s Rorschach-like
remarks might be read as: If black-on-white attacks have been ongoing, there’s
no need to be worried and no need for preventive action. One thing for sure: If the black-on-white attacks
have been ongoing, then I agree with Wright—it is just race relations as usual.
Will Wright seems to be saying that the
knockout assaults are just hubbub, just “hysteria,” no big thing so long as white
over-reaction
does not hurt black America. I suggest
that if he wants to explore racial hysteria, Willy might imagine what the
response would be if white thugs were attacking unsuspecting black men, women,
and children on the streets of America.
He also might recall the random looting of businesses, burning of
buildings and cars, white maiming, and white murder that accompanied events
such as Rodney King’s arrest. Then and
only then would Mr.Wright clearly understand what racial hysteria really is.
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