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Originally posted by [Labret]
All the victims were white, the killers were black.
They refuse to classify it a "hate crime". Nice.
Now if it was the other way around... if it were two white guys and 5 Hassidic Jews, they would be making movies about it and Sting would write a song.
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I believe that while comments like yours are well intended you're reasoning isn't complete. Comments like this fail to consider that the reason why crimes against certains groups are quick to be deemed (albeit sometimes wrongfully) as hate crimes and others not, is because certains groups have a rich legacy of crimes against others solely on the basis of race.
For instance, one can think of numerous cases where whites have brutalized blacks without any apparent motive other than race. Blacks don't share that legacy of burning whites alive on stakes, or having 5 black officers brutalizing one white victim and the list goes on.
This is why your reasoning falls short and it also explains why crimes against so called minority groups are sometimes investigated as possible hate crimes.
I don't know whether the current case is a hate crime. I haven't heard the case and I don't know all of the facts, but I think comments like yours are far too quick to judge. If it was a hate crime it was also clearly a robbery also. The robbery part is evident but the racial link is not, yet.