Because a white girl did it on TV. Now there's twerkin gym classes and the "history of twerkin" as "Fox and Friends” join in on this "new" craze.. Sent from my LG-LS720 using Tapatalk
True, the overwhelming number of attackers are whites targerting "polar bears" <----that term ring a bell, you racist project 'n deflect artist? Yeah, the mass media's going out of their way to make this up just to make blacks look bad..... .
Happy Thanksgiving too you to. Too early for this arguing bs in the morning. I'll tackle what you said later Sent from my LG-LS720 using Tapatalk
Right ... There's that evil media again, coming down on the black man. Stop with that nonsense. It IS a black issue. There's nothing more annoying when people in the black community refuse to own their own bullshit. I give Sharpton credit for speaking out against it. Are there examples where you can find a white kid doing it? Maybe. I haven't seen or heard of any ... But maybe. Even if you can find one or two, that doesn't change the fact that the other 99% of these attacks are being done by young black punks targeting non-blacks. It is what it is.
1. First off, im going to address only my points. Second, slow down on that "racist" bullshit. Third, in the majority of the news articles posted all over the interwebs and even on TV where they show a video, the majority involve this image. This is the same image that old Al Sharpton used in addressing this "issue." As you can see right off the bat, the date is from last year. But somehow this is tied to the growing problem that is "The Knock Out Game." The newest trend sweeping the streets of America... This image is from LAST YEAR which has NOTHING to do with this so called " game." The backstory of this images is of a mentally disturbed man in LONDON who randomly knocked out a woman as she was walking because she looked at him funny. http://jonathanturley.org/2012/11/2...man-shown-on-cctv-attacking-16-year-old-girl/ This was not present day, this was not in the U.S, and this does not tie to any of the recent "events" that the mass media is talking about. Yet they include it in damn near every fear article and show the video repeatedly on T.V. See for yourself : Click LINK! http://bit.ly/1814jCj 2.And then you have this : Don’t Believe all the Media Hype about the Knock Out Game-It’s Propaganda 101 (Article is TOO damn long to copy/paste. CLICK TO READ @ BOTTOM) So today for the umpteenth time we saw another news story, designed to cause mass hysteria with solemn sounding anchors telling us to be on ‘high alert’ for roving gangs of Black youth participating in this nationwide trend called ‘The Knock Out Game‘.. As anchors launch into their tales of terror showing us the same grainy stock footage which includes a teacher being knocked out in New Jersey from two years ago and a woman being knocked out in London, a ticker tape runs across the bottom of our screens telling us police are on the look out for these ‘young thugs’ and have ordered extra patrols… The story depending on what city you see it reported, will then tell you about two bike riders in St Louis being knocked out or Black kids in Brooklyn looking for Jews to knock out.. There’s a report of some kid knocking a woman out in San Diego..All the reports show the same video footage of some young teens in Jersey bragging about how they knock folks out.. By then our blood is either boiling or we are scared to death. The anchors voices then get shrill as they pull out a map detailing what parts of the country the attacks have happened. In the past month there have been 7 knock outs and according to the anchors the videos are being posted all over YouTube by the hundreds. All the news stories then launch into a field reporter interviewing someone who knows of a friend who knows a friend who got knocked out and went to the hospital because of the knock out game. These news stories from coast to coast end with the reporters telling us two people have been killed by what police think MAY have been a version of the knock out game..We are left concluding that we no longer need to fear terrorists organizations like Al Qaeda, but instead be wary of marauding Black Youth. The message is when you see them run. Why? Because they are gonna knock you out. These reports have understandably led to some harsh reactions with many publishing blogs and posting YouTube vlogs promising to shoot if someone dares to try to knock them out. In fact if you go on-line, you are likely to find scores of threatening responses to the Knock Out Game then you are the same 3 or 4 videos all of from years past repeatedly being shown on news stations around the country reporting this ‘new‘ ‘disturbing trend‘.[/COLOR] It’s important that folks not get caught up in the hype of the Knock Out Game without putting it in historical, social and political context. First let’s be clear in understanding what this is.. the Knock Out game is ASSAULT.. and when a group of people are ‘targeting people at random’ to assault them, that is basically another form of BULLYING. Are assaults and bullying acceptable? Absolutely not. Should we be concerned? Of course but let’s be honest when reporting on this type of anti social behavior. Yes there are crimes that occur. Yes there are innocent folks who get attacked robbed etc. But this is not whats being reported. many in the media are making it appear as if this is some sort of game spreading like wild fire from coast to coast. Its simply not true. The fact that they are taking any crime and calling it as part of knock out game trend is akin to when the police label every crime in certain communities ‘gang related’. What’s being report is now is the repackaging and rewording an age-old propaganda designed to stoke fears, increase ratings and justify demonizing and criminalizing entire groups of people. This should not be separated from roving teens who routinely have jumped and knocked out unsuspecting homeless folks over the years or folks who would shoot pellet guns at unsuspecting bike riders or throw rocks from freeways overpasses at unsuspecting drivers. or even full blown riots at college campuses .Often times such activities were reduced to kids just mischief-making. It was just a few years ago that our nation’s newspapers were splattered with headlines about how a group of suburban teens from Long Island attacked two Ecuadorean Brothers who were walking arm and arm thinking they were gay and ‘illegal’ gay and illegal brutally beat them with bats killing one. Once caught it was discovered that this group of teens who had dubbed themselves ‘The Caucasian Crew’ had been on a week-long spree of jumping Brown folks who they thought were undocumented.. They described Beaner Jumping as a commonplace game.. Click article to read more! http://hiphopandpolitics.com/2013/11/25/dont-believe-media-hype-knock-game-propoganda-101/ 3.And Then There's More : Knockout Game a reminder racial stereotypes still exist One of the supposed incidents floating around social media involving a would be victim in Montgomery, Ala. shooting their attackers who wanted to play the game on them turned out to be completely fabricated. Another supposed knockout game incident in Brooklyn is more than likely just a random hate crime. The data does not back claims that this is a growing trend either. This all fits neatly into America’s long history of stereotyping black men as inherently dangerous and criminal. If anyone thought that stereotype had died, this is just another reminder that it still has potentcy even in mainstream circles. http://blainestum.spokanefavs.com/2013/11/27/knockout-game-reminder-racist-stereotypes/ 4. Details on that fabricated Story : Knockout Game Turns Deadly FALSE http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/montgomery.asp As you can see, those who lack melanin play too. Point, even if not the "game", this isnt a "black issue." Its a "teenagers do stupid things because they think its cool" issue. Period. See you guys on Sunday as I know im done talking.
^ I must say Mute ... That's an impressive rebuttal, and I'll go on record as saying I'd be all for doing society a favor and exterminating every one of these punks.
Did you actually make it through his post? I was going to see what he had to say until he went all 13 year old girl with his colors and fonts.
sorry, Mute, the above is all bullshit. first, the argument that the knockout game is just bullying is asinine on its own merit, and if the thought process of the reporter writing that nonsense is that it is, the article lacks any merit whatsoever. secondly, all he did was take random assaults and battery cases perpetrated by white assailants and label them as participants of the knockout game, but doesn't provide any proof that these cases are what people are pointing to as the knockout games in question. yes, we know white people commit crimes, and attack people, but not all random attacks fit the MO of the knockout game in discussion, and any attempt to claim that any attack is the knockout game is beyond stupid. the entire article and its arguments don't have anything to do with the knockout game crimes being reported and generating the outcry. just nonsense.
You probably won't see it in concealed carry states as much. What has to happen is just one of these kids catches a .45 in the stomach for his trouble after failing to knock some unsuspecting person out. That will change the conversation quite a bit and most likely go a long way towards CC becoming legal in more states. FWIW, Bill Cosby was right a few years ago. Some youth are products of their upbringing or lack thereof and are for lack of a better term, pack hunters. What you never hear about are the youth from solid homes that don't go in for shit like this. Probably because they're not newsworthy. So yeah, let one or two have their intestines splattered on the back wall from a close encounter with a .45 and you'll see things change PDQ. Who knows, you might even see responsible Black Leadership (Not Sharpton) take a public stand on this that acknowledges the racial aspect of this "game". Lastly, why don't you White folks update your bogeymen. Jessie Jackson hasn't been relevant in decades. No one listens to him. No one cares. Pass it on OK? Sharpton? Si. Jackson? No.. Sheesh...
LOL.. As a black man, I'm just fine speaking up for myself as well. I don't need Al Sharpton to lead me anyplace. I have my own compass. :up:
It's getting bad here in NYC, it seems like now they are targeting jews in Crown Heights, or the media is making it out to be that way. I've seen some brutal KO's one was a 16 year old girl that look horrific. They killed a man in Jersey City a few months back, after he was KO'd he hit his head and broke his neck. The problem I see with all this, is it's getting too much attention and more people are doing it now. Mute, the story i am talking about, the kids that killed a man made national headlines, it's not the same story you posted. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/09...rged-in-beating-death-of-homeless-man-in-n-j/
And the very first time one of these KO Kids gets their ass smoked by someone that didn't get knocked out, you'll see the irresponsible "leadership" out there playing the race card when ironically, almost every case of some innocent person being victimized, race seems to be the issue. Where you don't see this happening is states where CC is the law of the land. Somewhere along the way, one of these kids will have to be killed in order to bring an end to this "game".
hi, first post media loves this BS story up here in Canada too its a totally made up story and it seems like the stations are playing any scrap of it hoping to get a copycat in Canada they can cover. They are the one parading the idea around the TV new - and there are so many better stories to cover, so many nec stories like spying revelations and minimum wage strikes etc but nothing as sensational as this made up bull crap
I live in the Bronx and i've seen this happen since freshman year in JR High, I love how the media gobbles shit up thats popular. They even have names for it(knockout game) but really since I was young it was done for initiation/robbery/or as a dare. Kids do dumb shit next story please lets not make this a black or white issue.
