Young Adult Africans, Not White Kids - Then, Of Course, Snowballing Would Have Been Perfectly Kosher - Part 1

This is really a “No-News” news story that ought not to have made the banner news headlines. But not all too surprisingly, it made the banner news headlines, anyway. Not because it was any more criminal or culturally anomalous in a way or in ways that that is/are scarcely seen among the peers of the alleged perpetrator in the New York suburbs, except obviously and purely because of the ethno-racial identity and background of the alleged perp or the alleged criminal culprit involved.

The rather brief news story that scarcely occupies more print - or in this particular instance, the digital - space was captioned “Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Declines to Charge ‘Kid’ Throwing Snowballs at NYPD Officers.” It appeared on a page of the Washington Examiner newspaper and was sourced to the latter’s ultraconservative media sister called the New York Post and dated February 2, 2026.

For those of our regular and devoted readers who may not know this, the terminology of a political or an ideological “conservative” has two diametrically opposite meanings when it is used by America’s traditionally biracial communities and/or societies, namely, White-American Society and Black or African-American Society. A “Conservative” to any White or European-Descended American Citizen means someone who staunchly believes in racial and ethnic, socioeconomic and cultural purity and, until relatively recently, the Statutory Separation of the Two Major Races of the United States of America, namely, Black and White America.

Now, the Separation of the Races also denotes the legal deprivation of African-Descended Americans, as it officially came into existence sometime around the 1790s and persisted well and deeply into the 20th Century, with varying degrees of this pattern of sociopolitical, economic and cultural modes of existence, persisting even to the present day and era. When the President Donald John Trump-led Make America Great Again (MAGA) Wing of America’s Republican Party talks and proudly touts a MAGA Agenda as its main and sole objective for capturing a thoroughly rigged electoral and democratic power, it precisely and ineluctably connotes a return to the “Good, Old Days,” when enslaved Africans were treated, literally, as veritable “Beasts of Burden” and items of “Chattel” with scarcely any legitimate claims to respect and dignity from Members of White Society, often euphemistically called “Mainstream American Society.”

Which also simply and automatically means that Non-Black and African People hereabouts in the so-called United States of America may be legitimately labeled or categorized as “Side-Stream America” and “Boondock America” or, better yet, “Ghetto America.” Or is it “Hoodlam America”? I guess one could even say or label the latter group or community as “Ghetto-Stream America,” a pejorative label that was originally used to reference European Jews penned in like livestock in the Pre-World War 2 Central and Eastern European Societies, especially in Poland and Germany and elsewhere in Europe at large, I suppose.

For African Americans, on the other hand, the description and/or the political and the ideological designation of “Conservative” simply means any rabidly and pathologically incorrigibly racist and Xenophobic White American Citizen or Denizen. Typical examples of such morally depraved species of humanity often but not exclusively belong to such terrorist pallid or lilywhite groups as the Ku Klux Klan, Knights of the Carmelias, Skinheads and the Aryan Nationalists, who are easily and seamlessly synonymous with Proto-Nazis and Neo-Nazis. They are also often invariably the implacable enemies of the Jews or the Semites, thus they are almost invariably equated with religiously avowed or hermetically sworn Anti-Semites.

But, of course, in situations such as the preceding, and such has been the case since the beginning of the statutory establishment of the Chattel Enslavement of Indigenous Continental Africans, there has always existed some among the latter, often called “House Negroes,” in the memorable words of African American Human and Civil Rights Leader and Legendary Entertainment Icon, Mr. Paul Robeson or Roberson and, subsequently, popularized and immortalized by firebrand Black Human and Civil Rights Spearhead Malcolm X - aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz - as “House Niggers,” as distinct or distinguished from “Field Niggers,” who always found it perfectly convenient and comfortable to be aligned in behavioral temperament or reckoned as being an integral part of the “Conservative Mainstream White Society,” because as veritable adjunct factotums of the dominant White Mainstream Society, they were often bestowed with a few privileges, including being classified as “Domestics,” that incentivized them to ensure that the status quo culture of entrenched White Privilege and Black Underprivilege perennially prevailed in toto and/or in perpetuity.

In our own day, we have had such “Black-Nigger Freedom-Bucking” House Nigger as Associate United States’ Supreme Court Judge as the Yale University-educated Justice Clarence Thomas, who have made themselves indelibly infamous for ranging themselves against nearly every legitimate legal measure or initiative that is proposed and apt to significantly improve or meliorate the unique existential dire straits that inescapably confronts and/or hobbles the quality of the lifestyles of the overwhelming majority of African Americans and other Non-White American Citizens and Residents right here in the United States of America.

At any rate, the real subject of our discussion here, as already noted in the aforereferenced news story cited at the very beginning of this column, has to do with the snowball volleying by some predominantly young group of African Americans which was at the time of the incident captured in both the New York Post and the Washington Examiner news reports was described as a “skirmish,” which means an almost spontaneous and totally unpremeditated or unrehearsed snow-throwing brawl of some sort. Now, the present writer personally witnessed this event in a realtime television newscast. It clearly looked as it has always been in snow-blasted and snow-swamped New York City in winter with city youths at play.

And then, for some unknown reason, some anti-black spoil-sport who clearly seemed to be implacably resentful of a gaggle of largely black and brown youths having a blast in the snow and volleying snowballs at each other, and absolutely at none else, decided to call in the police - very likely, one of those “shoulder-chipped” pallid pigs, my unreserved apologies to the good ones in the segregated sties or stables - an egregious act of stereotypical “dog-whistle” racism that was readily recognized and promptly poohpoohed by both a then newly elected Mayor Zohran “The Shining Star” Kwame Mamdani and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Which was the fact that until the clearly uncalled-for intervention of some New York Police Department (NYPD) Personnel, there was absolutely nothing amiss or socially disruptive about these otherwise perfectly innocent young Black men at play, who were now being capriciously targeted and charged with the vacuous crime of disturbing the public peace,

Now, anybody familiar with the vicinity of Manhattan’s Washington Square Park, right by the sprawling majestic campus of New York University (NYU), is well aware of the fact that it is an open public space that has been known to serve as a promenade ever since anybody of this author’s age and domiciliary in New York City can remember, which is at least as long as the age and the existence of Vice-President James David “J D” Vance, and just under a month before the birth of Mr. Stephen N(uremberg) Miller, the Ashkenazi Skinhead MAGA Chief-of-Staff at the Trumpian White House.

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
E-mail: [email protected]