The Knockout Game and Race

The Knockout Game and Race

         The new game called “Knockout” is when a teen randomly punches a stranger in the attempt to knock them out (make them unconscious). Some reports say that it is becoming widespread while other groups say that it does not exist. From what I have seen and read about, all the knockouts involve African American teens hitting mostly white people. But I have also seen in videos African Americans hit, so this cant be race related. As of yet there has not been a case where a white group of teens has targeted and African American in the fashion of the knockout game. There have been cases in New York, Chicago, and various other places.

          My main point on this is that if this game consisted of White kids assaulting people primarily African Americans it would be all over the News as a race crime. People in this country are quick to jump to race but I am sure that African Americans are not always the victims. In the history of our country crimes against Blacks have been primarily from white people but I don’t see why every crime a white man is involved in between an African American is immediately race related. In a statistic by the Bureau of Justice 93% of African Americans that where murder in the country are from other Black people while 85% of White murders are from other Whites.

          I feel that race related issues have become overlay sensitive in this country. Its seems that anything involving Whites and Blacks is race related. I have to commend Rev. Al Sharpton on the subject as he stated “We would not be silent if it was the other way around. We cannot be silent or in any way reluctant to confront it when it is coming from our own community," he said  “Kids are randomly knocking out people [from] another race—some specifically going at Jewish people."

Copy URL to see video of the Knockout Game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y08AIrCdkwY