When hate crimes go bad


Is it still a hate crime when "blacks" do it to "whites?"
So what happens when there is a hate crime committed against "whites?" Modern liberals start looking the other way.

Suddenly, newspaper editors, TV-news directors and other media faced an unsettling prospect of their own: If white-on-black hate crime is covered with an apologetic tone and references to the legacy of slavery, what’s the tone for covering black-on-white hate crime? Can a minority be a racist? And how can we, the media, get out of this?

As the Press-Telegram reported on November 3, three white women aged 19 to 21 emerged from a “maze” walk in a house and were confronted by up to 40 black teenagers who pelted them with pumpkins and lemons. The paper said, “The taunts and jeers grew more aggressive, the victims recalled, as did the size of the crowd. Now females joined in, and everyone began saying, ‘We hate white people, f--- whites!’ ”

The bizarre case, now in its fifth week of trial, resulted in hate-crime charges against nine girls and three boys, two of whom will be tried later. Yet the story didn’t run in the Los Angeles Times until November 7, buried inside local news. In that piece, writer J. Michael Kennedy quoted the Press-Telegram’s interview with the victims, watering down the racist language to the vague and more acceptable phrase “a series of antiwhite epithets.”

This is an important case, but not for the reasons you may think.

If only a "white" can commit a hate crime, that means there is an unspoken assumption that a "black" can not be held responsible, no matter what they say or do.

The assumption is that they aren't good enough to be an adult. Maybe not even good enough to be human.

That is what perpetuates racism.

Accountability and responsibility are the missing ingredients here,

— NeoWayland

Posted: Thu - January 4, 2007 at 07:55 PM  Tag


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