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To: John Lacelle who wrote (37400)	3/9/1999 10:32:00 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

<<Ya know I get so sick of these "hate crimes" getting all this media attention. >> I agree. Aren't most crimes "hate crimes"? Darn few people get murdered because somebody likes them.

To: John Lacelle who wrote (37400)	3/9/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>Ya know I get so sick of these "hate crimes" getting all this media attention. It is such a vile, politically correct charged media machine these days.< Seriously, I think this a rather dumb response to the so-called “hate crimes”. I think your frustration justified in that the media seems not to hammer Black on White crime as much as White on Black crime. But it would be more reasonable to desire more equitable treatment of these crimes in the media than to desire the media not give great attention to racially based hate crimes in general. If there is a group developing that kills people simply because they are White, I think that group should get a remarkable degree of negative attention if for no other reason than self-preservation. There is no political correctness here. It is reasonable. Anyone who rips the head off an innocent person for any reason, especially for reasons of immutable identity should get very much attention. Why especially? Because the murderer killed simply for reasons of an unchangeable identity that can by no serious means be hidden. There is no way for a person to find protection against one determined to kill him simply because of race. A Black who kills a White because of race should be revealed as a complete animal worthy only of death. The same should apply to Whites who kill Blacks for the same reason. I suspect media attention to the Black circumstance is due to the historical fact that Blacks in both the north and south have been historically assaulted, intimidated and even killed by Whites for no reason than that they were Black. Between 1889 and 1918 alone 2,522 Blacks were lynched, burned alive, or hacked to death simply because they were Black, and no one was punished for these crimes until 1918. One can claim this all ancient history if one pleases, but the fact is it is not. Jim Crow laws only recently were abolished. When a White kills a Black today for racial reasons, it refers to our recent barbarous times, causing many people to think we are yet racial barbarians. It causes others to want to distance themselves from the barbarity-- hence the attention racial crimes receive, especially when it is Black on White crime. >These days the cops can't even pull someone over without losing their jobs and getting sued.< This is because historically the police have used brutal force against Blacks simply because they were Black, and today any White officer who aims to apply justice to a Black unfortunately must struggle against this history. My friend, it is an unfortunate fact of life that we cannot escape history. The solution is to apply justice fairly and blindly, never allowing past injustice to excuse Black crime, but certainly not allowing ourselves to stupidly dismiss the fact that the injustices of the past greatly influence the events of the present. When you long for the media to make no great issue of racial killing, you in effect aim to ignore an entire history of systemic killing and intimidation of Blacks that occurred in this country. I do not even mention here slavery, but rather speak of events after the Emancipation Proclamation.