<< i bet the perpetrater was an uneducated white guy...how unlikely is it to see an ethinc person in america commit hate crimes like this? >>
Huh? Perhaps you've never heard of long-standing 'tensions' between blacks and Korean, Muslim, and Jewish business owners in communities throughout the U.S. where blacks are the frequent perpetrators of violence against these ethnic groups? Though, you may be correct that you are unlikely to "see" an ethnic person in American commit hate crimes, unlikely to "see" it reported is more accurate.
Though the media frenzied for weeks over habitual criminal Rodney King's treatment at the hands of white police officers, nobody paid any attention when three white teenagers, two boys and one girl, were brutally attacked by a gang of blacks in Flint, Michigan after the teens mistakenly wound-up in the 'wrong' part of town. One of the boys was killed. The other boy was nearly beaten to death, while the lone white female was shot in the face after being forced to perform oral sex multiple times. Both survivers recalled the perpetrators using multiple racial slurs as they were attacked. Racially motivated hate crime? Not according to black community leaders and the prosecuting attorney who they endorsed for office, just a random crime by some misguided youths.
Though the media frenzied for weeks over the dragging-death of James Byrd by three racists in Texas, there was hardly a mention of Melissa McLaughlin, a white woman who was kidnapped, beaten, raped, tortured (by partially skinning her alive, then pouring bleach on her open wounds) and shot six times by a group of blacks, one of them confessing they selected McLaughlin because she was white. Hate crime? Nah, just a random act of violence.
Though the media frenzied for weeks over the torture of Abner Louima at the hands of white New York police officers, there was nary a peep from the national press when three black teens, two male and one female, lured 10 year-old Tiffany Long, a white girl, into an empty house. There, they sodomized her, strangled her with a cable wire, and beat her to death with a wooden bed rail. Hate crime? Not according to Jesse Jackson, who joined the local NAACP for a prayer vigil - not for the victim - for the PERPETRATORS.
According to Department of Justice figures, in 1993 there were 1.4 million crimes involving interracial violence nationwide. Eighty-five percent of them were committed by blacks against whites ("white" may include ethic groups such as Italians). A white is 50 times more likely to be the victim of a violent crime committed by a black person than the other way around. The first hate crime conviction to be appealed to the Supreme Court involved a black perpetrator and a white victim.
Rodney King, James Byrd, and Abner Louima have become highly-recognizable names due solely to intense media 'hate crime' coverage. Yet, few people have ever heard of Missy McLaughlin, Tiffany Long, Michael Carter, Dustin Kaiser, and one girl whose name was not reported because she was a minor (they all might as well go unnamed).
Do you want to stand behind your claim? Cuz, I'm just warming up.
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