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Originally posted by SigmaChiGuy
I would have called it "Defending myself"....and someone who throws $hit on my window deserves a good $$-whopping.
I knew that posting this thread was probably a bad idea, but I guess something that just happened in the past 24 hours, still cannot bring people to one common ground. Racisim and hate-crimes cannot be justified....at all. It just amazes me how people try to make these wrong things right...by the color of skin.
PS, if someone says the "N" word, they're racist, right? So yes, name-calling has always been an act of racism.
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Man I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here.
SigmaChiGuy, my point of all this is to say that please call things as they are. A hate crime, an act of racism, a racist person, are all distinct and SEPERATE pieces of an ugly puzzle that does not change from one race to another (anlthough some folks believe that it does). Again, please use the correct terminology.
Examples:
A Hate Crime : The Matthew Shepard incident
Racism: Country clubs that do not admit blacks or jews (they still exist today in 2002)
A Racist: The Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
These examples can apply to any race, but yet, how would it be racism (which is based on power) if the Grand Wizard of the KKK threatened to beat me up if I cut him off on the freeway? What I am saying is that before we can really have a good frank discussion about this, we all need to be on the same page in regards to WHAT is WHAT.
Ok, back to the article as I said earlier, I believe that this was a hate crime, PERIOD.
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