Wilding In Charleston, S.C.

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Imagine how the national press corps would handle the following story:

Two black men in their mid-30's ride their bicycles down a city street about a block and a half from one of their homes. Seemingly without provocation, a group of white men and teen-age boys surrounds the pair, knocks them from their bikes and begins stomping them. The angry crowd pummels the two men with their fists, feet, a pipe and a yellow trash can. The attack leaves one man in critical condition and in a coma. The other is treated at the hospital and released. Eight people, including four juveniles, are each charged with two counts of "second-degree lynching" in the mob beating. Three other suspects are still being sought and another 14-year-old boy is expected to be arraigned in family court. Just prior to the attack, according to a relative of one victim, shots were fired outside a school dance. When police arrested a white suspect, one of his friends was heard saying: "Yeah, we are going to get us a black boy." The attack on the two black bicyclists occurred a few blocks from the school.

You know how that story would be played. Two innocent black men lynched by white mob! It doesn't matter where it happened-Anytown, USA. It would be national news, right? And news reporters and editors would pat each other on the back after writing their stories because it's important to let people know about the ugly specter of racism that still exists in this country.

Well, would you be surprised if I told you that precisely this happened just last Monday in Charleston, S.C., and not one national news outlet has picked up on it until now?

Do you wonder why? "Well, you see," the editors and reporters would tell you, "there are some complicating factors. For one thing, the local law enforcement officials say there was no racial motivation for the attack."

And that is true. They do say that. And they probably say it in hopes of defusing any further tensions that could escalate into wholesale racial riots and further violence. But that doesn't mitigate responsibility for not reporting the attack. After all, similar attacks of this kind have received massive attention by the national press corps. So what gives?

I'll tell you what gives. Every detail of this story is exactly as I related it to you in the beginning of this column with one exception-the victims were white and the perpetrators were black. Oh, now you get it. You see, we're not dealing with a so-called "hate crime" any longer because blacks aren't capable of being racist, according to the paternalistic mentality of political correctness. Only whites can be held accountable for racism, according to the hate-crime fascists.

Charlotte police are insisting that the motivation for the attack was not racial but rather material-in that the attackers stole the bikes. However, no one has been charged with theft. They are charged with lynching. And no one has come forward to explain why, if theft was the motivation for the attack, a crowd of at least 12 would beat two victims to a pulp AFTER they had been pulled from their bikes.

No folks, this was another case of "wilding," as it became known in New York after a stockbroker was beaten and raped by a mob in Central Park a few years ago. It was fun. It was the thing to do. It was a way of letting off steam. And, after all, the victims were a different color. They had it coming to them.

It's disingenuous not to call it racism. In fact, there's something condescendingly racist about the whole notion that racism is just a one-way street. It is not. And it is important for people to recognize that-all people. Playing "pretend" serves the interests of no one. Putting our heads in the sand and not recognizing that black people are just as capable of evil deeds as whites is a disservice to everyone.

It's bad enough that people are still getting lynched in 1999. Let's not allow the truth to be lynched as well.

This article was written by Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNetDaily.com. It was published Monday October 25, 1999 and is copyrighted by WND.