[Behind Liberal Lines]

This whole thing could be more than what it appears to be but being in an interracial relationship does not grant one automatic immunity from prejudice. That goes for all races.

That's true.

But it does give the case more "shades" than the media (and the police) seemed to want to give it.

It also makes me wonder: was the woman in question doing that "thing" where she thinks she is "street" now and so she used "the N word" in the way that, for instance, rappers do?

I don't know. It's just something to ponder.

The scary thing is, as noted before, not that you and I can ponder on this, but that the police chief feels so confident that she knows what was in the woman's mind.

[mafree]

It also makes me wonder: was the woman in question doing that "thing" where she thinks she is "street" now and so she used "the N word" in the way that, for instance, rappers do?

A reason why I question the validity of using hate crime laws over what people say to each other in the course of an incident.