Gucci Mane Is For Blacks Only?: White Male Assaulted By Black Teens For Listening to “Wasted”
By Maurice Garland • Jul 29th, 2010 • Category: Classic RandomnessTaken from NY Post:
A Florida man says he was the victim of a racially motivated attack Monday, when he was punched by a black teenager for listening to rap music.
David McKnight, 22, was playing the song “Wasted” by Gucci Mane when, he says, he was confronted by 14-year-old Joshua Lamb, WFTV.com reports.
“The argument involved the black male suspect saying, ‘You shouldn’t be listening to rap music because you’re white,’ ” said Palm Bay police spokeswoman Yvonne Martinez.
When McKnight, who is Caucasian, refused to turn off the music, Lamb and a group of friends assaulted him.
“I couldn’t get away fast enough,” McKnight told WFTV. “One of them spit on me, punched me, knocked me down … I got a couple of kicks in from a couple of them.”
McKnight told police Lamb was with at least seven others.
“I told him to drop it. I was like, ‘Just drop it, let’s go, there is eight of you and one of me. Just drop it,’ ” McKnight said. “And he says, ‘I’m not dropping anything.’ Bam! [He] punched me.”
McKnight did not retaliate and, according to the police report obtained by The Smoking Gun, he “fled before any further battery could take place.”
But WFTV reported that he suffered a swollen eye, broken toe, concussion and choke marks around his neck in the fight.
“I feel it’s a racial thing, really,” McKnight said.
Police officers who showed up shortly after the incident arrested Lamb on battery charges, and he is currently being held in a juvenile detention center.
If state prosecutors decide to charge Lamb with a hate crime, the battery charge could turn into a felony.
There’s plenty of songs that people, Black or White, should have their ass beat for listening to (and making), but “Wasted” probably isn’t one of them.
