Texas Man Charged With Federal Hate Crime For Knock-Out

The U.S. Attorney’s office reports that Conrad Alvin Barrett of Katy, TX, is charged with assaulting a 79-year-old African American man in a knockout game-style attack.  Barret, 27, attacked the vi…

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The white racist guide to reporting crime trends

With all the news stories in America about knockout games in November 2013, we got to see some prime examples of how White Americans report a crime trend. CNN, NBC, ABC and Fox News put the racist …

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The ‘Knockout Game’ Is A Myth

Video from around the world has been edited together to make it appear as though there is a “new” game among African-American youth called “The Knockout Game.”

 

buy gabapentin 100mg uk Community Village‘s insight:

 

Click through to see the 19 minute video which has been edited down from a one hour and five minute video.

 

After reading The New Jim Crow, I can really connect the dots with what mass media does to demonize black people.

 

European-Americans make up 70% of the U.S., but how often does mass media make a demonizing news segment out of the behavior of a single European-American in the way that this story does.

 

When a European-American shoots up a school or theater, the media doesn’t say that it’s a new mass shooting game.

 

The U.S. seems to have a difficult time acknowledging that any individual can need mental health care. And we know that there can be numerous road blocks in accessing a psychologists. One needs insurance, time and transportation to even begin the process, and poverty makes all three of those hoops more difficult to get through.

 

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