Willravel

And your condescension is ignored. The fact of the matter is that any crime out of bigotry is a hate crime, and if a crime by a black man were committed against a white man out of racial prejudice, a good lawyer could easily spin that into a hate crime and get the offender an extended sentence. Most crimes committed by black people against white people are theft, though.
Jim Crow laws were about singling out one group to punish. Hate Crime laws are about punishing a bigoted motive. Those are two very separate things.

I'll have to respond to the rest later (work)