NBC News and the Associated Press want you to know there is no such thing as black mob violence. Especially in the hundreds of cases of Knockout Game now receiving so much attention in local and national media across the country.
Ditto the Washington Post, ABC News and the Philadelphia Inquirer. And this weekend, the New York Times.
The rules of the Knockout Game are simple: Gather a group of black people. Find a white person. An Asian will do. Punch them in the face until they are knocked out. Or dead. Or your arms get tired.
If you relied on local and national news accounts, you would not know the violence has a racial component. But the video solves that problem.
Many episodes of black mob violence and mayhem — including the Knockout Game — are recorded on video and posted on YouTube. Or Facebook. Or even bragged about on Twitter
Many are documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore it.
But that does not matter much to NBC and AP. Heck, the New York Times says the Knockout Game is probably just an “urban legend.”
With one difference: This time we have Big Foot on Video. Thousands of them.