The word
wilding has adopted the meaning of "a
violent and
brutal attack, sometimes involving
racism and/or
rape." The term's origin is unclear - supposedly it originated in 1989, following the arrest of five African-American and Latino teen boys who were believed to have attacked the stockbroker known only as the
Central Park Jogger. After the boys were taken to
jail, the story goes, they began singing the song "
Wild Thing" - a recent hit for
Tone Loc at the time, and a song filled with
sexual references. Another theory on the term's
etymology suggests that the word already existed at that time, and was known by young lower-class minorities to mean "going out in
wolfpacks to assault and terrorize Caucasians." Race became a component of the term's meaning mostly through media coverage of that attack and others in South Carolina, Wichita, Philadelphia, and elsewhere.
Sources
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-goldblatt121602.asp
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14838
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/centralparkattacks/ref5.html