My WND Technocracy column this week is a follow-up to my analysis of the urban legend of “52 Blocks.”

A system that never really existed, which has no real definition, can be anything and everything to anyone, a forever moving target that shifts to avoid scrutiny and logical analysis. I was told that I was wrong to say “52 Blocks” was a prison system, because some of its defenders claim it isn’t (even though others do). I was wrong to say it couldn’t realistically come from Africa (even though some of its exponents say it did), because in fact it was only “influenced by” its African roots, its techniques “informed by” the “flavor” of Africa. True believers in this prison-system-that-isn’t-a-prison system, desperate to defend this African-martial-art-that-isn’t-really-African, claimed that if other martial arts (like capoeira) came from Africa, it must mean that “52 Blocks” did as well. Why, there are even some “52 Blocks” schools that teach white students, so all those people calling me a hateful cracker attacking the precious product of black history were my imagination, and “52 Blocks” isn’t, after all, taught as part of a “black power” ideology.

Read the entire column here at WorldNetDaily.