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From: athletics@vanguard.edu

There’s no doubt Grafton Thomas committed a hate crime when he
allegedly stabbed five people at a Hanukkah party in New York.
He is an African American. There was a time when the two, a hate
crime, and African American, were not only mutually exclusive
but almost unthinkable. There was good reason. In the long vile,
hideous history of racially motivated hate violence in America,
African Americans have been the prime targets.

The legions of statutes, photos and various exhibits that depict
gruesome lynching scenes and mob violence against African
Americans at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in
Montgomery, Alabama is gory testimony to that. But even before
Thomas welded his machete at the Hanukkah party in New York that
had changed.

While Thomas’s attack is a grotesque and extreme example of hate
violence, it is hardly an aberration. Whites are the targets of
racially motivated attacks by blacks. True, some of the attacks
against whites by blacks are for their money and valuables.
Others are revenge assaults by blacks for real or imagined
racial insults. It is equally true that most violent crimes
against whites are committed by other whites, while most violent
crimes against blacks are committed by other blacks.

Yet even after discounting crimes that are hastily and
erroneously tagged as racially motivated, many blacks do attack
whites because they are white. Justice Department studies have
shown that a measurable number of the hate crimes examined were
committed against whites by black attackers. The Southern
Poverty Law Center which for decades has tracked hate violence
in America notes that cases of black-on-white violence has been
more than an aberration in the last two decades.

More than a few ultra-conservative websites, bloggers, and the
usual motley collection of white supremacists and rightist
extremist groups have jumped all over this and screamed long and
loud that racial hate now comes with a black face. This does
several things. It puts the finger-point on blacks as America’s
major hate mongers. It feeds into America’s gun mania by
igniting loud calls for fearful whites to arm and protect
themselves from lawless blacks. But most of all, it presents the
false narrative that racially motivated hate violence is a grim
product of a long bygone past, and that whatever hate violence
remains is perpetuated by blacks.

This lie has worked. Who better than Trump to prove it? He took
much heat in November 2015, for his false, gross factually
challenged and deliberately inflammatory retweet of a favorite
white nationalist talking point about black on white crime. Said
Trump, whites were in grave peril from being murdered by blacks,
and the stats supposedly proved that. The figures were quickly
debunked. It didn’t matter. The lie was out there and countless
numbers believed it.

Trump’s racist bombast could get zero media and public traction
if there weren’t just enough white victims and, now as the
attack on the Hanukkah party showed, Jewish victims of black
hate violence to make these fallacious claims seem plausible.
That’s stirred a kind of reverse prickliness on the part of many
blacks. The reaction has been either disbelief that blacks can
commit a hate crime. Or, there’s the complaint that when blacks
do commit a hate crime and whites are the victims, the media
blows it to the sky and federal hate crime charges are quickly
slapped on the black offender. The charge is that there’s a
double standard in how the media and public perceives and reacts
to black violence against whites as opposed to white violence
against blacks. Thus, there is little outcry or condemnation of
it by blacks. Civil rights leaders and organizations, yes, but
blacks in general, no.

Worse, some blacks quietly shrug off the violence with the
bitter remark that whites have been killing blacks for years and
getting away with it, and that there has been no massive
explosion of white outrage at the lax treatment of white killers.

The deafening silence by blacks on this apparent racial outrage
against whites will draw shouts from some that blacks are
hypocrites and have a double standard when victims are whites.
They’re not totally wrong. The victims of Thomas’s rampage were
innocents who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong
time and were stabbed because they were white.

Blacks must mourn these murders as passionately as they do those
of black victims of white attacks and just as passionately call
for the harshest punishment of the killer. The great strength of
the civil rights movement was that it seized and maintained the
moral high ground by never stooping to ape the violence of white
racists.

The Thomas onslaught caused monumental pain and suffering to the
victims’ families and friends. It again dangerously heightens
racial distrust and poisons racial attitudes. There must be no
hesitation, pause, or equally bad silence in condemning these
attacks. When blacks say or do nothing about these attacks, it
is taken by some as a tacit signal that blacks put less value on
white lives than on black lives. There’s only one message in the
wake of the stabbings. A hate crime is a hate crime no matter
who commits it.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.

https://www.baystatebanner.com/2020/01/09/a-hate-crime-is-a-hate- crime-no-matter-who-commits-it/
 
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Jimmy Galligan - I’m going to remind myself, you started
something,’ he continued. ‘You taught someone a lesson.’

You're right Jimmy. No matter what you do, this petty little
act will be part of your pedigree. Social media now lives
forever and you will hereafter be known forever as vindictive
hypocritical scum for the remainder of your life.

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