Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)

The U.S. is about to have a major race incident

- L.A. Parker is a Trentonian columnist. Reach him at laparker@ trentonian.com. Follow on Twitter@laparker6.

In a scene that could cross paths with box office psycho thriller “Get Out,” a professed white supremacis­t traveled to New York City to hunt and kill black men. Authoritie­s charged James Harris Jackson, 28, with one count each of murder in the first and second degree.

They labeled the attack an act of terrorism after Jackson killed 66-year-old Timothy Caughman with a sword last week.

U.S. residents should expect a matching video game, perhaps entitled “Race Hunter” as our nation observes a metastasis of hatred.

The game could ship to the approximat­e 800 white supremacis­t groups and be race-altered for the 100 or so black organizati­ons that spew racial discord.

In fact, imagine video game capability that would allow a person to format their hunt tailored to their own bigotry.

A player could track Jews, hunt Italians, vaporize Germans, extinguish lives of Muslims and permanentl­y deport undocument­ed Mexicans. Pow. Pow. Kapow!

Black on black crime, specifical­ly murder in Chicago, may ratchet up our attention but killings in the first degree regarding race represents a brave new world of bigotry.

The United States death spirals toward a significan­t race incident as lone wolves act out their sickminded games.

Jackson said his attack had been a test run for some more grotesque incident that claimed a heavy death toll, perhaps, an act more sinister than June 2015 when Dylann Storm Roof murdered nine black parishione­rs inside Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church.

Roof’s expectatio­ns for severe social unrest never materializ­ed as races mixed to shoulder together pain and suffering.

Roof’s murderous rampage stunned us although social observers refrained from identifyin­g his actions as terroristi­c.

While terrorists hope to kill during their attacks, a second objective desires to alter behavior, get us off our game until enjoying freedom requires looks over our shoulder and constant vigilance.

We have managed to keep the lid on racial unrest but a storm rises on the horizon as blacks and Jews come under attack.

In the 1950s, Cold War and nuclear weapons fears moved many U.S. citizens to invest in undergroun­d fallout shelters.

The safe boxes have returned and not based on the potential that Russia might attack. An NBC report noted that the election of President Barack Obama spiked 250 percent.

“In the Trump administra­tion,” Texas businessma­n Clyde Scott noted, “in the past month our sales probably went up 500 percent.”

The February article should not surprise anyone willing to voice the truth about their private conversati­ons. People live on the edge as skin color and political ideals mean more now than ever.

As rich people invest in undergroun­d shelters that can hold a dozen people and two years worth of supplies, others purchase handguns.

Black people have flocked to gun shops since the election of President Donald Trump and also to pushback against the rising tide of violence by police and neighborho­od criminals.

While many people offer derisive criticisms of urban violence and murder fueled by poverty, they offer a sound of silence when a white man volunteers informatio­n that he planned a deplorable attack on blacks.

The United States is about to have a major race incident.

Maybe it’s time to buy several weapons and invest in undergroun­d living space.

 ?? ALEC TABAK/THE DAILY NEWS VIA AP ?? James Harris Jackson, center, a white racist accused of fatally stabbing a 66-year-old stranger on a Manhattan street because he was black, appears in Manhattan Criminal Court, with his attorney Sanford Talkin, left, in New York, Monday. He is charged...
ALEC TABAK/THE DAILY NEWS VIA AP James Harris Jackson, center, a white racist accused of fatally stabbing a 66-year-old stranger on a Manhattan street because he was black, appears in Manhattan Criminal Court, with his attorney Sanford Talkin, left, in New York, Monday. He is charged...
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