I have just become aware, thanks to Fox News and an author who publishes under the conspiracy-minded World Net Daily imprint, that roving gangs of black adolescents are marauding through our streets, randomly attacking innocent white victims in a racist ritual known as the "knockout game."
The motive is mischief, not robbery. These impeccable sources also claim the mainstream media, in a woeful act of political correctness, refuse to report the racial nature of this crime wave.
The country is in denial, said Colin Flaherty, author of "White Girl Bleed A Lot," a crime compendium that has become a favorite of conservative voices who stoke racial animus for fun and ratings.
"If we can open this up to some real talk," Flaherty said, "maybe that's the first step to solving a very nasty problem in this country: black mob violence, black-on-white crime, whatever you want to call it, the numbers are ridiculously out of proportion."
He's right about one thing: The numbers are ridiculously out of proportion. According to the FBI, in 2011, there were 3,645 victims of racially motivated hate crimes. Nearly 72% of them were victims of an offender's "anti-black bias," as the FBI puts it. Sixteen percent were victims of an "anti-white bias."
Those who pay attention to hate crimes for a living agree; they have declined, but victims are still overwhelmingly African American. "Really," said Amanda Susskind, Pacific Southwest regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, "nothing has changed in our country about that fact."
So what, Flaherty says.
"If you use statistics, which I don't, people say you are stereotyping," he told me Saturday. "Every incident by itself may be insignificant, but when you put them together, there's something going on."
What that something is, he can't exactly say.
But I can: It's part of the ongoing demonization of black teenagers.
From the Scottsboro Boys to the Central Park Five — innocent African Americans convicted of crimes they did not commit — this latest spate of stories is simply another plot twist in our dysfunctional national race narrative.
In 1989, five teenagers were arrested after a white jogger was raped and left for dead in New York's Central Park. "Park Marauders call it: WILDING," blared the Daily News headline over a story about a "wolf pack" of teenagers.
Five black teenagers,14 to 16, were arrested and tricked by police into false confessions. They spent years in prison until the real rapist, a convicted murderer, stepped out of the shadows.
"It's always dangerous to create a 'trend' out of isolated but vivid instances," said Christopher Hawthorne, director of Loyola Law School's Juvenile Innocence & Fair Sentencing Clinic. "It's true that gang life involves a lot of physical violence, and youth violence involves a lot of fistfighting. But we know that most crime is monoracial. A couple of random videotapes does not make a trend."
News flash: Teenage boys in groups can act like jerks, sometimes malicious jerks. That goes for all races. (As in the "Kick a Ginger" attacks of a few years back. Or the recurring white riots in Huntington Beach.
Knockout game stories spiked last week, after a 24-year-old Brooklyn man was set upon by a stranger. A 28-year-old African American man was arrested and charged with a hate crime. That assault followed at least two other similar incidents. The victims were Jewish; the alleged perpetrators were black.
"We still have issues of anti-Semitism in the black community," said the ADL's Susskind. "But even that is way down."
There is no consensus among law enforcement that the "knockout game" is even a thing. "If ever there was an urban myth, this was it," a Jersey City police spokesman told the New York Times last week.
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