By early 2014, members of the National Association of Black Journalists moved on from the Knockout Game. They did not want to talk about it -- other than to dismiss it is a myth. Ditto the daily papers.
But the Knockout Game continued.
One of the newer attacks of 2014 came from Cleveland, where we learned for the first time that recent black mob violence directed against a disabled army veteran is just the latest of many examples of “more violent teens running around the heart of downtown Cleveland.”
Whoa!
This time Matt Robinson was the victim. Robinson was riding a bus through Cleveland when a group of eight black people surrounded him, taunted him, threatened him, then followed him when he left the bus.
The Fox affiliate picks up the story with an account from Robinson: "What they were saying was, 'Knock that boy out!' 'White boy.' 'Cracker.' They were saying, 'Knock that white boy out.'"888
Robinson said they also videotaped the attack.
Robinson is alive. Three suspects are in custody. And search as you might, you are not going to find stories in the major news outlets in Cleveland that refer to prior black mob violence downtown -- or anywhere else.
Even if most reporters are seemingly not aware of the racial violence, their readers are: “This has been going on at the Square for decades,” said Bob McKenney and others in reaction to the story of the disable veteran who was a victim of racial violence. “Young blacks doing their thang.”
And all this happened a few days before hundreds of people gathered in Miami to remember Trayvon Martin, and how, says Ebony Magazine and Daily Beast, white fear caused his death. And the “death of countless others.”
If the truth is not more powerful than lies, we are all doomed.
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