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In reply to the discussion: Terrifying 'knockout' game assaults spreading [View all]last1standing
(11,709 posts)Animalistic black youths.... Check!
Innocent, unsuspecting, white victims.... Check!
Accusations of random violence that can't be avoided.... Check!
Several "news" organizations trumpeting an epidemic.... Check!
Yep, looks like we've got everything we need in order to stir up some good old fashioned racial hatred and fear of "the blacks." Be afraid people! Be very afraid!
I wonder why none of these "news" operations ever talks about an "epidemic" of white on black violence when Aryan Nations punks go on a rampage or some cop wannabe mows down a child trying to defend himself with a pack of skittles. For some reason those are always 'isolated incidences.'
I live in the Detroit area and my local news channels have been telling me to be afraid of scary black people since I was a toddler. I didn't buy it then and I don't buy it now. Have black youths randomly attacked white people? Sure, but the hidden truth is that there is a subset of youths in every race and culture who do stupid violent shit (remember playing chicken?) but the vast majority of black people, like white people, like red people and brown and yellow people, don't do stupid violent shit.
So it's our own choice. We can do as one poster upthread suggests and arm ourselves to the teeth on the 0.00001% chance that a scary dark skinned person might throw a punch at us, or we can stop living in fear from the comfort of our gated communities.
I've managed pretty well working and socializing in the scary, dark, city for the last 25 years by arming myself with respect instead of bullets.