Originally posted by Sam The Sham
That is the automatic assumption until proven otherwise and you know it. You are too cowardly to admit it.
But black on white crime? Never considered a hate crime unless the evidence is overwhelming.
To deny that is asinine.
There is no such "automatic assumption". In reality, very few interracial crimes of any type are treated as "hate crimes":
Charging a hate crime -- targeting someone because of race, sexual orientation or other ethnic factors -- in the U.S. is rare; maybe only 1 percent of the cases get prosecuted, according to experts and available court records. Even when police believe a hate crime occurred, it rarely leads to a prosecution and conviction.
"Just because a crime is a black on white crime or a white on black crime or a Jewish victim or a gay or lesbian doesn't necessarily make it a hate crime," said Steven Freeman, associate director of civil rights for the Anti-Defamation League in New York.
Only a handful of murders have been prosecuted as hate crimes in the U.S., said Jack McDevitt, associate dean of Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice. "Trying to detect motivation in somebody's behavior is very, very difficult."
http://wcco.com/topstories/hate.crime.prosecution.2.367128.html