The problem with 'hate' crime charges is that they feel like separate laws for a 'separate' group of people.And they're a one-way street. When a bunch of coons do something as horrendous as this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom

to a couple of white people, there is noone standing up a saying 'hate crime'. How was that now hateful?
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