Thanks Kingkazpur... the article at least supplies a link to Cashill piece
Trayvon was playing the Knockout GameExclusive: Jack Cashill asserts, 'Martin's assault on Zimmerman fit an obvious pattern'Friday, January 17, 2014
OK, let us start with the premise that Conrad Barrett of Katy, Texas, deserves to be in prison. He deserves to be in prison for his willful and unprovoked attack on a fellow citizen, especially given the age of the victim, 79.
The evidence suggests that Barrett approached the elderly fellow, said, “How’s it going, man?” and then punched him hard enough to break the fellow’s jaw in two places and dislodge three of his teeth.
Barrett then allegedly cried “knockout!” and took off. He was arrested after sharing his story at a bar in the presence of an off-duty cop.
What makes the case stand out is what Barrett actually hoped would make it stand out: his pioneering role as the Vanilla Ice of the Knockout circuit. Of the thousands of perpetrators of the Knockout Game, Barrett may be the only white guy to have attacked a black victim.
What is for sure is that Barrett is the one and only knockout player to get arrested for a federal hate crime. New York State brought hate crime charges against one black suspect in 2013, but that was not so much because the victim was white, which he was, but because he was Jewish.
Among his motives – his attorney says he is bipolar – Barrett set out to prove the unequal enforcement of the law. In this regard, he seems to have succeeded.
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The media’s collective failure to acknowledge the racial nature of the Knockout Game enabled them to turn would-be knockout king Trayvon Martin into a martyr and his victim, George Zimmerman, into a racist vigilante.
If he had not had an audience, Trayvon Martin would likely have made it back safely to the townhouse where he was staying in Sanford, Fla., that rainy night in February 2012.
The Knockout Game is played for glory. Martin’s audience consisted of one person, the sassy, defiant, plus-sized Rachel Jeantel who talked to Martin by phone throughout the encounter.
There is no reason to believe anything Jeantel said about the confrontation between Martin and Zimmerman save for her spectacularly un-coached recollection of how Martin first described Zimmerman, namely as a “creepy ass cracker.”
In sum, Martin saw Zimmerman not as the hulking vigilante the media did but as a vulnerable, possibly gay white man nearly half-a-foot smaller than he.
As to Martin, although the media chose not to let the public know, he was an aspiring mixed martial artist who had recently been disciplined both at home and at school for starting fights.
By the time of this incident, the Knockout Game was a well-established phenomenon among young black males, especially troubled ones like Martin, the product of a broken home and a broken culture. Martin’s assault on Zimmerman fit an obvious pattern.
The State of Florida, Attorney General Holder, President Barack Obama and the entirety of the mainstream media chose not to see that pattern.
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