I always seem to get myself in trouble on here when I give responses on topics related to sexuality and race, but I just couldn’t avoid this question. I really do feel myself that many problems blamed on race issues are really the results of other factors. On some of my previous posts I’ve mentioned some of these so I will not do so here.
When I look at the malicious intent involved with a specific hate crime committed for racial reasons, I don’t see the definition of the word ‘hate’ changing just because of race issues. There are people whom commit crimes against others on a frequent enough scale for malicious reasons not due to race. I’ve listed several reasons in other threads why I oppose the concept of hate crime laws, but I wanted to touch on something before getting the heck out of here.
Despite my opposition to hate crime laws, I think we should look at the intent behind many of those who support hate crime legislation. I don’t feel that the purpose of hate crime laws are to change or modify the definition of the term ‘hate’ itself just because of racial reasons, so in a sense the term ‘hate crime’ is somewhat of a misnomer to me. The intention of hate crime laws appears to be to address the concern that minorities are frequently subject to harassment, intimidation, violence and discrimination much more so than whites, and in a society where whites have been the majority race in authority and culture. These laws were also meant to be a way to allow a minority crime victim seek justice due to corruption in a justice system biased against minorities.
I’m basing some of my latter assumptions from the case of a hispanic man beaten to death by several white high school football players not far from my area. The players got acquitted of murder charges, but most local police department officers involved in that case were convicted of witness tampering, withholding evidence, bribary and a whole host of other charges. Ironically one of the football players mothers was dating the detective in charge of investigating the case (don’t ask me how that happened). The state police finally did take over the investigation, but likely after the damage had been done. The football players had federal charges filed against them for committing a hate crime against the deceased victim, though I’m not sure what ever became of it. The irony was that despite the racial slurs leveled at the victim in this case, those same players attempted to pick fights with several other white kids before they ran into the hispanic kid. I’m just trying to find some sense in an age of political correctness, where sometimes I agree with it while other times I don’t.