Good day. It's Thursday, July the 31st, 2025. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast from Denison Forum. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by our CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

A bloody, late-night brawl in downtown Cincinnati last weekend has generated national attention.

The video of the fight early Saturday shows a crowd milling around before several people start

throwing punches. One man falls to the ground and is repeatedly punched and kicked by bystanders. A woman is struck in

the face and falls to the ground, lying motionless before another woman helps her. Several people

took videos of the attack, but only one person called 911. Video evidence shows the men and woman

who were beaten to be white and their assailants to be black.

A senior figure in the U.S. Justice Department suggested that the attack may have been

motivated by race and that suspects could be charged with federal hate crimes.

I obviously have no idea what motivated these assaults, nor what moved people to record them,

but not call the police. Here's what I hope was not at work, a critical theory, ideological

belief that because the attackers were part of a racial minority as a victimized collective,

they have the right to oppress their oppressors without consequences to themselves.

Such racism to combat racism is the opposite of Dr. King's vision of a nation in which people

would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

It undoes what the civil rights movement sought to achieve

by returning us to a culture of racially divided subcultures.

And it perpetuates America's quote-unquote original sin of slavery

by treating some Americans as less worthy of our inalienable rights

to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Now, before proceeding, I must emphatically state that I would have precisely the same fear for our nation

if the assailants had been white and the victims black.

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