Same reason they pushed the memo that George Bush basically caused the Texas lynching because he opposed a particular “hate” law: they worry about AA’s getting off the plantation. And Jews, too.
The irony is that whereas Bush might have opposed hate crime legislation because it amounts to thought crime, he supports the death penalty whereas the great majority of supporters of hate crime legislation oppose the death penalty.
And just this past week, the guy guilty of the dragging death was executed. He’d be alive if the hate crime people had their way.