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According to Andrew Sullivan, Horowitz is full of it on this story. One of the perps had a white girlfriend, and there was never a racial slur expressed during the entire attack. Secondly, more blacks have been convicted of hate crimes than whites. Of course more blacks are committing crimes, and there are many racist blacks, but once again Horowitz doesn't deal with facts if they get in the way of his point.

Four years later - this year in fact - a white man named Ken Tillery, hitched a ride in Jasper, Texas. He was given a lift by four black men who then murdered him to a deafening national silence. Like Byrd, Tillery was held hostage and beaten. Then he was run over and crushed to death. The copycat nature of the crime made it a natural news story. But there was none, save a modest account in the Houston Chronicle, to which nobody paid any attention. This savagery was apparently nothing. The pigments were politically incorrect. It was only some white guy, whose ancestors probably owned slaves.

Only reason I heard about it was that somebody made reference to it here on FR...

That is reprehensible.

I hope the Jasper-area NAACP is pleased with itself.