Are Hate Crime Laws Only For Prosecuting Whites?

[Mr VJP]

'Flash Mobs' Have Racial Element Both Here and in UK 

If you're unaware of the epidemic of black-against-white violence that's plaguing cities in the U.S. and beyond, you're not alone. In the past few years, black "flash mobs" have attacked innocent white victims apparently based solely on race -- often inflicting serious or even deadly injury. Yet, instead of reporting the stories fully, most in the Leftmedia have raced to cover up the perpetrators' race. As John Bennett writes in the American Thinker, "The hateful murders of Matthew Shepard, who was gay, and James Byrd, Jr., who was black, were memorialized with national legislation. When similar crimes are committed by blacks against whites, they are greeted with ignominious silence." For those brave enough to say something, the accusation of "race-baiting" awaits. "Presumably, it would not be considered race-baiting if the races were reversed," Bennett writes of this double standard.

Just last week in Wisconsin, black-against-white flash-mob violence at the state fair led to 11 injuries and 31 arrests. In Philadelphia, mob violence led Mayor Michael Nutter -- himself black -- to tell black youths, "You've damaged yourself, you've damaged another person, you've damaged your peers and, quite honestly, you've damaged your own race. Parents who neglect their children, who don't know where they are, who don't know what they're doing, who don't know who they're hanging out with, you're going to find yourself spending some quality time with your kids in jail." Good for the mayor. And over in London, a few brave souls have stated the obvious: that the majority of the rioters are black.

We don't think it's coincidence that many of the cities where flash-mob violence has occurred -- Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York -- have for decades been run by leftists. Given the non-consequences faced by perpetrators in the now-famous Black Panther voter intimidation case (thank you, Obama Justice Department), flash mobs probably know there will be no repercussions for acts of violence. What there will be, though, is protection for the perpetrators behind a media too steeped in politically correct hogwash to report the truth.