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Originally Posted by willravel
And your condescension is ignored.
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I certainly hope you'll forgive any perceived condescension, but will, if you don't know that every single day there are white people killed by black or hispanic people and the media doesn't give a damn, nor do most in the justice system....but god help the white person who kills a black man because then we get to hear jesse jackson and al sharpton rail and rant about the blatant racism in (name your city) and that they expect the DA to charge a hate crime. Face reality my brother, you and I are the most discriminated against species on the planet at this time.
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Originally Posted by willravel
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.
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If you were talking civil cases, maybe...but you're talking about a slow crawl justice system with DA's more interested in political careers than you are anything else and the reality of that is, your death or mine just doesn't frickin matter to them. I'm not very up to speed on san fran crime, but here in dallas/fort worth, it's just not the way you describe.
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Originally Posted by willravel
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.
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and it's also sliding away from the topic of the OP so i'm not going to threadjack here.