If, over the Christmas season, should any New Hampshire resident visit a large population center such as New York City, Chicago, or even Boston, that person would be well advised to beware participants of the “Knockout Game” (aka, “polar bearing” or “polar bear hunting.”)

If you don’t know what this involves, you aren’t alone. Most people would be apprised of this danger were they better informed by the national news media. Instead, censorship of black-on-white crime condemns many non-blacks to victimization. Fortunately, not everyone is conforming.

New Hampshire’s own Mark Steyn, writing in the National Review in an article entitled, “Knockouts High and Low,” describes what happens: “Groups of black youths roam the streets looking for a solitary pedestrian, preferably white (hence the alternate name ‘polar-bearing’) but Asian or Hispanic will do. The trick is to knock him to the ground with a single punch.”

In preparation, the perpetrator approaches the victim either as a passer-by or from the rear. As he bashes the victim’s skull, his fellow thugs record it on cell phones for uploading to youtube.com, allowing the thug’s friends and family to enjoy his victim’s agony.

Victims can be any age, male or female, healthy or not. They range from a 13-year-old boy to a 78-year-old woman carrying shopping bags. There’s more, but you get the drift.

The common element is that the victims do not expect the unprovoked assault. I mean, who expects savagery like this? Hence, only knowledge of such behavior and the savages who inflict it would allow potential prey to avoid it.

That means when in large cities, you should constantly be assessing people in your immediate vicinity. Any group of young blacks, giggling and talking among themselves while occasionally looking in your direction, should be regarded with suspicion. Forget political correctness.

If a single individual leaves that group and moves in your direction, beware. It’s time to either prepare a defense or cross the street to where there are people and security cameras.

News organizations should be reporting these incidents, if for no other reason than public safety. Yet, it’s not happening.

That there’s insufficient reporting and even less public discussion of these incidents is significant. Perpetrators are mostly black teenagers, openly hostile to white victims. However, writing about black-on-white crime is discouraged in major news networks. It doesn’t fit their narrative.

Crime in black communities is only publicized nationally if the criminality comes from an exterior source; that is, if blacks are victims of non-blacks. That double standard is now biting the backside of large-population cities. Black youths look upon impunity as an entitlement.

Celebrated black economist and syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell recently addressed this subject in an article, “A Very Dangerous Game.” He wrote, “The main reason for many people’s surprise is that the mainstream media have usually suppressed news about the ‘knockout game’ or about other and larger forms of similar orchestrated racial violence in dozens of cities in every region of the country.”

He continues, “Sometimes the attacks are reported, but only as isolated attacks by unspecified ‘teens’ or ‘young people’ against unspecified victims, without any reference to the racial makeup of the attackers or the victims – and with no mention of racial epithets by the young hoodlums exulting in their own ‘achievement.‘”

He also states that, “Despite such pious phrases as ‘troubled youths,’ the attackers are often in a merry, festive mood. In a sustained mass attack in Milwaukee, going far beyond the dimensions of a passing ‘knockout game,’ the attackers were laughing and eating chips, as if it were a picnic.”

Sowell concludes that, “If these attacks continue, and continue to grow, more and more people are going to know about them, regardless of the media or the politicians. Responsible people of all races need to support a crackdown on these attacks, which can provoke a white backlash that can escalate into a race war.”

Professors Steyn and Sowell are to be commended for speaking out. Yet, nothing will change as long as such crimes aren’t publicized. We in New Hampshire are not so far from Boston and other population centers that we can be safe from the spread of this barbarity. Unwarned is unarmed.

Joe Konopka, of Hudson, is a freelance writer. His column appears on the third Sunday of the month. Email him at
stonesoldier@live.com.