[Jaded]

That's new and different.

[ConservativeMan55]

Weird stuff. Not sure if I support this.

You can't charge people for what they were thinking at the time of the crime. A crime is a crime.

[Modernman]

That's new and different.

Not really. Hate crime laws are pretty evenly applied to blacks and whites.

[Main Street]

"That's new and different."

It sure is. But will it be the norm? We will have to wait and see. The liberal double standard of Political Correctness is just so engrained into the system....

From '3 men stabbed in attack in Lovejoy'

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050724/1004075.asp

"The police, Diina said, acted quickly Friday and last Saturday when a black man was beaten by five white men in the Seneca-Babcock area. Police arrested the five white men who were accused of striking Brian Hunt with a baseball bat and screaming racial epithets at him."

And charged them with hate crimes.

But on the stabbing of three whites by five blacks who were screaming racial epithets, we get the following.....

"Sack, the investigating lieutenant, downplayed the racial elements of the Lovejoy attack."

"If people are angry at one another, they try to wound each other's feelings, and they call each other names. It doesn't mean, "I'm a racist,' " she said of the racial slurs."