>A White 15-year-old had his spine broken in two places after a Black player for the opposing team performed a wildly illegal, unprovoked body splash at a junior varsity football game in Michigan this week. > “What does race have to do with it?” > Everything. From hockey rinks to track meets, pro wrestling rings to JV football fields, home invasions to public transportation, and surveillance video to body cams; virtually every instance of zero-impulse-control catastrophic violence we see comes from the same source. > Pattern recognition is fundamental to intelligence, and we're done playing stupid to appease people who cheer us being maimed and killed. > (No consequences have been reported. The two schools are “handling the matter internally.” Local coverage: https://wwmt.com/news/local/disturbing-conduct-leaves-lakeshore-jv-football-player-with-spine-fractures-junior-varsity-game-high-school-kalamazoo-central-video-injuries-unsportsman-like