Hate Crime Disparity: Will it Wake Up White America?
by James Buchanan
Last Halloween, three White girls were attacked by a crowd of 25 to 30 Blacks. The Blacks screamed racial epithets as they attacked the Whites. One White girl suffered thirteen skull fractures. Months later, the first five Black attackers to be put on trial were given probation. The failure to seriously punish the Black criminals involved in this attack has caused massive outrage in southern California where the story has gotten limited coverage.
Unfortunately, many Whites have become pessimistic about the liberal legal system ever changing. Because the justice system has failed so many times in the past to punish Black criminals or to take hate crimes against Whites seriously, many people think it will always be this way.
It is still true that Blacks are rarely charged with hate crimes and that a hate crime by a White will get national publicity while a hate crime by a Black gets almost no mention by the mainstream media. The Los Angeles Times is possibly the only mainstream media source to mention the Halloween hate crime (and only because it happened in Long Beach, which borders L.A.) (more…)