I heard on the news that it's been called "polar bear hunting"

Obviously a reference to the victim's white skin.

I think we should plan a march

quote Originally posted by heybjorn: Al Sharpton takes a stand for justice. It is an alarming trend that is spurring outrageous incidents across the country. It is deplorable, reprehensible and inexcusable. It is insane thuggery, and it is unequivocally wrong. These kids are targeting innocent people, and in many cases specifically targeting Jewish folks. We would not be silent if it were the other way around, and we will not be silent now. This behavior is racist, period. And we will not tolerate it. There is nothing funny or even remotely entertaining about attacking innocents walking down the street. This is not a "game"; it is inhumane behavior that has no place in our country or the world.

Good for him. He may even take some flak from the black community for this, but I respect his making that statement.

quote Originally posted by doublec4: I think we should plan a march

Most people have jobs and better things to do.

quote Originally posted by Formula88: Good for him. He may even take some flak from the black community for this, but I respect his making that statement.

Funny how he turns it to "jewish religion" making it a religious prejudice over "white people" making it a race prejudice.... but when a Hispanic man shoots some lil hoodlum in self defense, he is the 1st one to yell Hang whitey.... Al Sharpton is really one of the most 2 face people I have ever seen, I can honestly say I have a real Hate towards him.

quote Originally posted by newf: It will be ignored by many.

Al Sharpton has never done anything that wasn't good for Al Sharpton. Just call me skeptical.

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Ron
Isn't it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, his upbringing, his environment, his culture, his mental state but … after a shooting, the problem is the gun?

My Uncle Frank was a staunch Conservative and voted straight Republican until the day he died in Chicago. Since then he has voted Democrat. Shrug

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quote Originally posted by pontiackid86: Funny how he turns it to "jewish religion" making it a religious prejudice over "white people" making it a race prejudice.... but when a Hispanic man shoots some lil hoodlum in self defense, he is the 1st one to yell Hang whitey.... Al Sharpton is really one of the most 2 face people I have ever seen, I can honestly say I have a real Hate towards him.

Say what you will about Sharpton (in general), but I think that's a misrepresentation of his statement:

quote Several of these "knockout" incidents have already been reported in New York, and around the country. Many of the New York victims appear to be members of the Jewish community, but even in cases where race/ethnicity/religion aren't factors, it is still unconscionable. As I often state, no one -- black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, male, female, the elderly, children, gay, straight or anyone else -- should ever fear walking down the street.

Sharpton may be the "broken clock that is accurate twice every day".

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At times, the game becomes fair.

quote Originally posted by Tony Kania: At times, the game becomes fair.

Good..... he's lucky to still be breathing...

39 seconds.. did he get passed by a pink segway?

wow - full circle eh?
used to be bands of whitey's grabbing & hanging negros from trees....

but - anyways - back to the actual "Knockout" game. was it OK when young white boys played this? this game is as old as puberty. I can understand the concern from frightened white folk that a band of negros is gonna come and knock ya down for no good reason. most can even think to highschool bullying and see its the same damn thing. now that the bully is an old white fart - now he sees the problem with bullying?

yes - Knockout is wrong. always has been. sorry you have been to stupid before to know it. it is wrong now. it was wrong in 2000's it was wrong in the 1990's it was wrong in the 1980's it was wrong in the 1970's 60's 50's 40's 30's....and so on - all the way back.....to whatever you believe the origin of humanity is.

Social Darwinism
Sometimes these things have a way of just "working themselves out"

quote Originally posted by Pyrthian: wow - full circle eh? used to be bands of whitey's grabbing & hanging negros from trees.... but - anyways - back to the actual "Knockout" game. was it OK when young white boys played this? this game is as old as puberty. I can understand the concern from frightened white folk that a band of negros is gonna come and knock ya down for no good reason. most can even think to highschool bullying and see its the same damn thing. now that the bully is an old white fart - now he sees the problem with bullying? yes - Knockout is wrong. always has been. sorry you have been to stupid before to know it. it is wrong now. it was wrong in 2000's it was wrong in the 1990's it was wrong in the 1980's it was wrong in the 1970's 60's 50's 40's 30's....and so on - all the way back.....to whatever you believe the origin of humanity is.

You just love to be contrarian. Doesn't really matter what the cause as long as there is something to get your teeth into.

This game of tit for tat is stupid and is promoted by people like you.
I don't know if you are a racist but you might as well be one if you keep spouting the war cry.

I never hung me no negroes man. Nobody I know ever wore no funny pointy hats.
I am a native American and I do know what discrimination is and I hold no grudge to pass on.

The kids don't see color until we tell them. This perpetuation is some selfish sick **** .
Leave the next generation alone. They don't have to be ****ed up like the ones before.

This is 2013. Get with it or shut the **** up and hurry up and die off.
Black,white or purple. Shut your racist faces and die off already.

Just die. Get killed,kill each other I don't care but get it done
Don't want to fix you.
Just die.
The new generations don't deserve this.

quote Originally posted by pokeyfiero: You just love to be contrarian. Doesn't really matter what the cause as long as there is something to get your teeth into. This game of tit for tat is stupid and is promoted by people like you. I don't know if you are a racist but you might as well be one if you keep spouting the war cry. I never hung me no negroes man. Nobody I know ever wore no funny pointy hats. I am a native American and I do know what discrimination is and I hold no grudge to pass on. The kids don't see color until we tell them. This perpetuation is some selfish sick **** . Leave the next generation alone. They don't have to be ****ed up like the ones before. This is 2013. Get with it or shut the **** up and hurry up and die off. Black,white or purple. Shut your racist faces and die off already. Just die. Get killed,kill each other I don't care but get it done Don't want to fix you. Just die. The new generations don't deserve this.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't see his post the same way you did. I think the full circle thing was to prove a point. What I have seen in the previous posts is people blaming the blacks for a game that has been around for decades and was played by all races. Seem people are just trying to program us to fear black people. It's not working on me...

quote Originally posted by Purple86GT: Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't see his post the same way you did. I think the full circle thing was to prove a point. What I have seen in the previous posts is people blaming the blacks for a game that has been around for decades and was played by all races. Seem people are just trying to program us to fear black people. It's not working on me...

quote The great Contrarian: now that the bully is an old white fart - now he sees the problem with bullying?

This is perpetuation.

This is an accusation, it is only wrong because it is subjected on this present generation.

It has always been wrong as he said but instead of stopping it it is blamed and held accountable for another round.

Perpetuation.
You don't have to be a racist to promote it.

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quote Originally posted by pokeyfiero: This is perpetuation. This is an accusation that it is only wrong because it is subjected on this present generation. It has always been wrong as he said but instead of stopping it it is blamed and held accountable for another round. Perpetuation. You don't have to be a racist to promote it.

Well I read it different. I read it as it was not a problem when it was popular among white people to play the game. Now that blacks are doing it, it caught the media's attention. Man those black people.. always messing up our games.. Look at basketball, they stole that too! What is next? Golf? Damn you Tiger Woods!!!!!

so - um - what is the point of this thread if not to scare white folk into fearing the bands of negros which are gonna jump them?

This entire thread is nothing but a huge trail of exactly what you are whining about.
But, since I show a wider truth, and not joining the "Them Damn Negros!" mob - I'm the racist who should die....lol

quote Originally posted by Pyrthian: so - um - what is the point of this thread if not to scare white folk into fearing the bands of negros which are gonna jump them? This entire thread is nothing but a huge trail of exactly what you are whining about. But, since I show a wider truth, and not joining the "Them Damn Negros!" mob - I'm the racist who should die....lol

I stated I don't know if you are a racist.
I stated your perpetuation is a problem.
I never stated you inparticular are a racist that should die off.
I am saying that perpetuators are the cause of continued racism.

At the end of the day I don't care what you are Black, white Asian A squirrel. You try to play this on me You're getting hit back, Who ever it is tries to play this on me Their getting hit back even harder. They try to rob me after it and they don't knock me out, their getting shot at, plain and simple.

quote Originally posted by pokeyfiero: The kids don't see color until we tell them. This perpetuation is some selfish sick **** . Leave the next generation alone. They don't have to be ****ed up like the ones before. Black,white or purple. Shut your racist faces and die off already. The new generations don't deserve this.

I have to say I agree. Racism is taught.

quote Originally posted by 2.5: I have to say I agree. Racism is taught.

Sometimes, but if a certain group repeatedly acts a certain way towards ya, you're just going to naturally build up feelings against said group.
Kids absolutely see color, but they will use it as a way to describe someone, not discriminate or feel hatred towards them. Untll they experience many small negative situations involving them, or a few larger, or one BIG one. Then, they will probably not feel a great deal of love towards that particular group.

But Parents sure can pollute a kid's mind. That and their peer group(s).

quote Originally posted by TheDigitalAlchemist: Sometimes, but if a certain group repeatedly acts a certain way towards ya, you're just going to naturally build up feelings against said group... .

I get what you are saying, I'm thinking of when you are told a group acts a certain way towards ya, over and over, when you are told and shown how to think about it, from the time you are born, by relatives, neighbors, everyone around you, my media even.
When it is legitimate and they do actually act that way twards you, they usually do so for that same reason. They were taught.
I mean, they dont really know you do they?
Eliminate that and it would probably leave very little left.
Anyway.. it happens.

quote Originally posted by pokeyfiero: This game of tit for tat is stupid and is promoted ... perpetuation

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quote Originally posted by Purple86GT: None of what you said makes any sense. Just because your current President is black, he should take a different stance on crimes involving black people? And then, because I said something sounds racist (and calling a random black guy who just committed a crime on of Obama’s boys sure does sound racist) I’m the one who is not connected to the facts? So when Bush was in power, all the white people committing crimes were the Bush boys? Well I guess I’m one confused white guy…

Of course, didn't you hear? All white crime during Bush's years are all linked to him, since all white men are "his boys".. But naturally Bush's illegal wars don't count as "crimes".. Some black guy probably set all that up anyway.

quote Originally posted by TheDigitalAlchemist: Sometimes, but if a certain group repeatedly acts a certain way towards ya, you're just going to naturally build up feelings against said group. Kids absolutely see color, but they will use it as a way to describe someone, not discriminate or feel hatred towards them. Untll they experience many small negative situations involving them, or a few larger, or one BIG one. Then, they will probably not feel a great deal of love towards that particular group. But Parents sure can pollute a kid's mind. That and their peer group(s).

yes - you are talking actual experiences
most of the BS in this thread, and many like it, are from people who NEVER or RARELY have any actual interaction with the groups they are hating.

I am endlessly amused by folk who have rarely encountered an actual negro - let alone spent time with a negro - say they are not racist
racism is in everyone. there are many parts to it - main one being narcissism. everyones got narcissism in them. just a matter of how much.
I will never say I am not racist. that is a stupid statement to make. I like me, I like everything about me, and if there is something about that is not like me, well, you must be lessor than me. That is a root function of the EGO in everyones personality. we all got it. which means we are all racists.
I guess I must be lucky in that the Muslims, Egyptians, Indians, Iraqis, Koreans, Eastern Europeans, and, of course, Negros, I meet and work with everyday are professionals, and I have good and rewarding experiences with them.
not one Muslim has tried to cut my head off. really - not one of them. not one negro has snuck up and tried to knock me out.

quote Originally posted by Jonesy: Of course, didn't you hear? All white crime during Bush's years are all linked to him, since all white men are "his boys".. But naturally Bush's illegal wars don't count as "crimes".. Some black guy probably set all that up anyway.

Do you even know what you are talking about?

quote Originally posted by Pyrthian: I guess I must be lucky in that the Muslims, Egyptians, Indians, Iraqis, Koreans, Eastern Europeans, and, of course, Negros, I meet and work with everyday are professionals, and I have good and rewarding experiences with them. Not one Muslim has tried to cut my head off. really--not one of them. Not one negro has snuck up and tried to knock me out.

Biased sample. Dem ones all got jobs--or some money.

Some of the forum members, who are most outspoken in this way, don't make those kinds of economic (class) and statistical distinctions, however.

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Another one loses the knock out game

http://dailybuzzlive.com/archives/1607

quote Originally posted by pontiackid86: Another one loses the knock out game http://dailybuzzlive.com/archives/1607

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/knockout.asp

On 25 November 2013, as news outlets were reporting the supposed spread of knockout game incidents in the U.S. (a "game" in which youngsters sucker-punch random strangers and attempt to knock them unconscious), the National Report published an article positing that a 93-year-old woman named Gladis Bennett shot and killed one of a group of thugs who were attempting to make her a victim of their knockout game efforts:
"I was waiting at the bus stop and suddenly felt this sharp pain to the left side of my body. The blunt force was so strong that it knocked me down. When I looked up I could see a group of thugs laughing at me. Then one of them started kicking me. So before they had a chance to do more harm, I reached in my purse, pulled out my gun and shot the main aggressor. Luckily they all ran after that. I was terrified. I thought they were going to kill me."

51-year-old Knoshon Mootron a homeless man from St. Louis who witnessed the attack told reporters that Bennett acted like a superhero. "I saw her get sucker punched from behind, hard. She hit the ground, then they all start kicking her, she grabs this huge gun out of her purse and BOOM! Headshot! Game over son, ya know what I'm sayin'?"
By the following day links and excerpts referencing this article were being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered the item mistaking it for a genuine news article. However, the article was just a bit of satire from the National Report, a web site that publishes outrageous fictional stories such as "IRS Plans to Target Leprechauns Next," "Boy Scouts Announce Boobs Merit Badge," and "New CDC Study Indicates Pets of Gay Couples Worse at Sports, Better at Fashion Than Pets of Straight Couples."

The National Report's disclaimer page notes that:
National Report is a news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within National Report are fiction, and presumably fake news. Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental.
This article echoed a similar fictional piece about a 60-year-old woman named Beulah Montgomery that had been circulating on the Internet at the same time.

EDIT: Adding another source because some people don't believe snopes; http://fox2now.com/2013/11/...ame-suspect-is-hoax/

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quote Originally posted by dratts: And as usual the family defends one of them. "he's a good person. He got's a job". I'm sorry, but he's a lowlife just like the punks in Spokane who beat a world war two to death last year.

Correction, I think what she actually said was:

"He done school, he did good grades, he got job, he done get into trouble, he just at the wrong place at the wrong people."

It was bound to happen. Someone finally got charged with a racial hate crime for playing the "Knockout" game.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/...index.html?hpt=hp_t2

quote (CNN) -- A man has been charged with a federal hate crime in connection with what authorities say was a racially motivated "knockout" assault against an elderly black man, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday. Conrad Alvin Barrett, 27, of Katy, Texas, has been charged with one count of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. According to the federal complaint, Barrett attacked the 79-year-old man "because of the man's race and color." He will next appear in court Friday afternoon for a detention hearing. The suspect made a video of the attack November 24, the complaint said. In the video, he allegedly commented that "the plan is to see if I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?" He then allegedly "hit the man with such force that the man immediately fell to the ground. Barrett then laughed and said 'knockout,' as he ran to his vehicle and fled." The victim suffered two jaw fractures and was hospitalized for several days, the complaint said. Barrett's attorney, George Parnham, told CNN the affidavit does not "pull back the layers of mental health." His client has bipolar disorder and takes medication, Parnham said in an earlier call. Parnham said he could not state whether his client carried out the attack, but, "mental health issues definitely played a part in anything that occurred." Barrett "is very sorry for this person," Parnham said, adding that he and his client haven't had much opportunity to discuss the facts of the case.

Looks like an another savage has been charged for death of a promising white young college student. A car load of animals spotted Colton Gleason walking with two girls down a back alley when one of the gang bangers in the vehicle, Jesse Smithers, ordered the driver to stop and snuck up on Gleason to deliver a fatal blow to the back of the head. Police were quick to dismiss this as a hate crime, as no Arizona Iced Tea or Skittles were found on the body of the deceased. Rather they said it was a case of prank gone bad. So what sort of justice did this Son of Obama receive? 10 years, and with chance of parole within 5 years. Disgusting.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2...udent-colton-gleason

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quote Originally posted by pokeyfiero: Do you even know what you are talking about?

The question is, do you?

There are 2 games out now. One is blacks playing 'knockout' on whites. The other is whites shooting blacks. Guess who winning....

quote Originally posted by rogergarrison: There are 2 games out now. One is blacks playing 'knockout' on whites. The other is whites shooting blacks. Guess who winning....

Who knows if both sides start shooting...

Whites are apparently smart enought to use a gun instead of their hands....