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Knockout Game Myth Comes Back To Haunt Right-Wing Pundits: White Man Charged With 'Hate Crime' Against Black

Conrad Alvin Barrett: The grinning racist was charged with a federal hate crime for a
so-called "knockout game" attack on an elderly black man. (Screen capture from video)

By Ronald David Jackson
A 27-year-old man who lives in Katy, Texas is being charged with a federal "hate crime" after he video taped his own assault on a 79-year-old black man on November 24, according to the complaint. The man, Conrad Alvin Barrett, allegedly wanted to see if his "knockout game" attack would be "nationally televised."

The following CNN news report on the attack is interesting. It seems CNN producers didn't want to talk about a so-called "knockout game" assault of a white person upon a black without airing bogus footage of a "knockout game" assault of blacks on a white person. For a critical analysis of this and other bogus video footage used to "prove" the existence of a "knockout game" among black youth go here.

The Costs of the 'Knockout Game' Myth: Woman Fabricates A Knockout Game Attack To 'Protect' Her Abusive Boyfriend - Blamed Black Teens

Of course the Right-Wing spin machine has been very quite about this particular 'Knockout Game' episode.

The woman and her abusive boyfriend were both charged
with filing a false report, a misdemeanor crime.

The 'Knockout Game' and the Myth of the 'Liberal Media'

Adapted from "Day 29: Knockout!" (Photo: Mike Nelson

"If there is a 'liberal media', why is the knockout game story being circulated by such 'liberal' news outlets like MSNBC, CNN, The NY Times, USA Today, and others? Why would the liberal media legitimate the knockout game narrative instead of suppressing or covering it up?

"The 'liberal media' is a myth and a lie. There is no liberal media; there is only a corporate media...

"The allure of the knockout game for white conservatives and the Right-wing media (in an era where racism and conservatism are one in the same) is irresistible and instinctive. The supposedly “liberal media” is influenced by similar forces."

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The 'Knockout Game' Is A Myth

Knock Out (Photo: Daniel Novta)

Documentary producer, Tariq Nasheed, shows how old video, video from Britain, video of lone adult and teenage attackers, and random video from around the US - has been edited together to make it appear as though there is a "new" game among African-American youth called "The Knockout Game."

The 'Knockout Game' Is A Myth: Excerpts

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RELATED STORY: The "Knockout Game" is a Dream Come True for Racist White Conservatives

The "Knockout Game" is a Dream Come True for Racist White Conservatives

Adapted from "Day 29: Knockout!" (Photo: Mike Nelson)

By Chauncey DeVega
I share no sense of linked fate with Marvell Weaver, the hoodlum who was arrested for playing the "knockout game" and then decided to do an interview with the local news about his exploits.

After watching Weaver's pathetic explanation for the logic of his crime, I am left wondering what happened to shame?

Right-wing trolls are doing their best to play up the foolishness called the "knockout game". It is a new moral panic that combines white anxieties about black criminality, fear of black young people, and stereotypes about "African-American violence" which have been cultivated by white supremacists since Reconstruction.

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RELATED VIDEO: The 'Knockout Game' Is A Myth

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The emails, comments, and stories on Right-wing websites about the faux moral panic "knockout game" phenomena are not rooted in a fair concern about crime and youth brigandry. Rather, the "knockout game" meme is rooted in a pathologically white racist obsession with "black crime"--what is alone and unique in its distinction, as white privilege has disallowed any discussion of "white crime" in America's public discourse.

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