Regarding the white couple killed in TN by the group of black ‘friends’, the authorities sure didn’t take long to determine that wasn’t a hate crime, did they?
Seems to me like getting a hate crime classification means the victim has to be a minority or homosexual.
If the races were reversed in the Tn incident, the media and the cops would trying to be making it a racial incident - kind of like here.
Historically, many people have been hanged - not always for racial reasons either. Yes, it is creepy to come out and find nooses hanging from a tree I’ll give you that. I’d even consider it threatening and hostile. But trying to make it a hate crime is really a stretch imo.