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Originally Posted by passthru
Why the hell would you yell "<your race> power" before beating people if you weren't racist? If some gang from 60th street yells "60th roolz" and then attacks some people, they're saying their area is the best/better than the victims. I didn't read the hate crime criteria from nyc.gov (btw, wtf..) but if you yell "black power" it's implying that blacks are better than/above/whatever others.
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I really think you're missing the point of saying "black power" here. When I was 13 and people at the Lilith Fair handed me daisy-shaped "Girl Power" stickers, I don't think they were trying to encourage me to feel like I was better than boys or adults. That's certainly not what I was implying whenever I said it or wore a "girl power" patch on my backpack. It's usually a term of empowerment, not dominance over others. The only time (off the top of my head) where saying "____ power!" means what you describe it to mean is when the Klan is saying it.
(To add a disclaimer, this has nothing to do with the crime in the article. I still think those particular kids were being violent criminals and deserve to be tried as adults.)