Hey Mom! It was a good post until it got hijacked! Thanks for giving us all a heads up on this 'Knockout king" thing. Most of this caterwauling could have been headed off if we knew up front the author was of a minority persuasion. Oh well, I can't tell you how many times I got an email and shot it out to the netherworld before I checked it completely. Yeah... I've been stepped on a couple of times :-/
Warning! Politically Incorrect ethnic identification coming up!! Be warned!
To the others tearing the thread up: I don't claim to be a historian on the Knockout King game, but the first posting that became widely public was on a Hip Hop site and was in fact black on black violence. Subsequently there have been black on yellow (Vietnamese) then black on brown (Hispanic) reported. And this is derived from just one article.
Knockout King: Kids call it a game. Academics call it a bogus trend. Cops call it murder. - Page 1 - News - St. Louis - Riverfront Times
I'm not a racist, at least I don't think I am. I'm more of a culturist. I think that any culture that would raise a generation devoid of morals is wrong and needs to be corrected. But when the offspring of that culture come up with "games" like this then the finger needs to be pointed in the right direction.
Granted, there are very few videos on the net (that a limited web warrior like me could or wanted to spend the time to find) so I have a limited well of data to draw from. But when the single most prevalent article in print and the most infamous video posted both involve attacks on others by a group of black youth what do you you expect Joe or Jane Doe to conclude? It's black on everyone else violence.
Now you can say that the reports are skewed by the media, or this is a narrow cross section of the total violence perpetrated by "game" players, you can say anything you want to say. It's your story, you tell it.
Personally, I'll draw my conclusions from the data presented. And before you start, my opinion and reaction would be the same if the perpetrators were white, black, brown or red.