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Sharpton does something right

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Heard of the Knockout Game? A couple of news reports at the link say it’s real: young guys in New York attacking Jewish strangers, trying to knock them out with one blow.

Al Sharpton gets so many issues wrong that I’m in the mood to acknowledge him for speaking out rightly on this one:

“This kind of behavior is deplorable and must be condemned by all us,” he said at his weekly National Action Network meeting in Harlem. “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.”

On Monday, Sharpton and other leaders plan to discuss a “next move.”

“Kids are randomly knocking out people [from] another race — some specifically going at Jewish people,” he said. “This kind of insane thuggery — there is nothing cute about that. There is no game play about knocking somebody out, and it is not a game. It is an assault and is bias, and it is wrong.”

Comments

  2. I agree completely. Sharpton deserves a lot of credit for saying that. Of course, we know it won’t happen, but as you said, Sharpton deserves to be complimented here.

    I wonder if Obama will speak out against these kids who might have been his sons …

  4. rusty – But did you check out the linked video? As Ed Morrissey puts it, “The attacks themselves are real enough, and so are the deaths and injuries.”

    Any argument, then, would be over how many deaths and injuries are needed to call it a ‘real phenomenon’ or ‘real trend’. It’s a legit argument, but imagine if gun owners were involved: then it would need only one or two instances for the liberal media to declare a ‘real trend’ and foment a nationwide panic.

  6. From Rusty’s linked story:

    The Daily Beast reports that assaults with “hands and fists” in America rose .7% from 2011 to 2012, according to the FBI.

    “The ‘knockout game’ may or may not be a new phenomenon, but with a few instances out of tens of thousands of assaults, it’s not a trend, and media outlets shouldn’t treat it as one,” the news organization reports.

    To me, this is pretty clear evidence of how some in the media are desperate to control the narrative.

    Nowhere have I read that the “knockout game” has zoomed to the top of the methods of assault. Nor have I read that the “knockout game” is so well tallied and understood that the International Union of Assault Statisticians has reached the consensus (as in consensus science) that “it’s not a trend.”

    The Daily Bleat is supposedly part of the new media which is hip and in tune with the internet. Yet, the gurus there seem to ignore the power of You Tube, Twitter and Facebook to ramp up a trend and convince a whole lot of social imbeciles that they should catch the new wave of what’s happening now.

    OK. Al Sharpton finally came to the mike and did a 180˚ flip in terms of his patented shtick. Sharpton is a master at stirring stuff up, but he has no track record whatsoever of calming stuff down. There is a world of difference between being a community organizer (read: agitator) and a community leader.

    Which leads me to Barry. Not a peep.

    All that said, I will applaud Sharpton for his better late than never, calculated and carefully worded condemnation.

  9. The MFM denies that a few dozen cases of black gangs targeting and assaulting white people is newsworthy “because it isn’t an epidemic or a trend,” But let one lesbian couple be excluded from a prom and the media will go wall-to-wall with how pervasive and epidemic homophobia is.

  10. I called it wrong.
    I figured Rustoleum would return from his slumber with the next “gay marriage” post.
    Life is full of surprises.
    It’s reassuring to see that the cut-and-paste habit hasn’t become…rusty…during the hiatus.
    You can go back to sleep now, Ms. Oxidation.
    Or, more to the point: are you EVER going to wake up?
    There’s a great, big, wide world happening out here while you’re busy getting in your 40 twinks winks.