FBI Reports More Than 7,400 Hate Crimes

[ckramer]

Reports of hate crimes motivated by anti-black bias totaled 2,548 in 2003, more than double the total hate crimes against all other racial groups. There were 3,150 black victims in these reports, including four who were murdered, according to the annual FBI figures.

The overall total of 7,489 hate crime incidents reported in 2003 was slightly above the 7,462 reported in 2002, the lowest number since 1994. Race bias was behind 3,844 of the 2003 cases.

Intimidation, vandalism and property destruction account for nearly two-thirds of the nation's hate crimes.

Yahoo! News

[wellst0nev0ter]

1. *Waits For Fulminations Against All The Black Hate-Crime Offenders*

[wordout]

2. *waiting for the crybabies to appear*

[realisticphish]

3. the public is so blind to this

people stick their fingers in their ears and say "no racism left! everythings goshdarn perfect". evil triumphs when good men do nothing...


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[MatrixEscape]

5. Wait ...

the "public" is blind to 99% of just about everything culterally and humanly important today. This culture is one of distraction, entertainment, sports, investment, personality, etc.

I would say that people don't stick their own fingers in their ears, the culture is designed to plug them up like the three monkeys that "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".

If it were 100% voluntary, I would agree. Waking up is not easy when you live in a media bubble that works like a big Oz-head.

[realisticphish]

6. lol

i kind of see society as one on the fingers in the ear, and the other one the republican party :)

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Demeter]

4. We Need To Add A Category: Democrats!

The trend is new, but unmistakable: Democrats are the newest target for hate crimes. We need all that infrastructure to defend ourselves against hegemony--Stat!

[BayCityProgressive]

7. Just think

Homosexuals aren't even included in Hate Crime protection. Can you imagine how huge this number would be if gays were included? I know so many gay people who have been physically attacked in the last 4 years. One was bashed with a a baseball bat so many times here in Michigan, that he went into a coma for a week.

[struggle4progress]

8. kick for home-grown terrorism, our national pasttime

:kick:

[bhikkhu]

9. Absent Parameters = Worthless Statistic. n/t