According to some sources, since the election is now over and Mr. Obama will supposedly be the next president of the United States, (provided he resolves his birth certificate problems), there has been a sharp rise in what are loosely called "hate crimes." These "hate crimes" seem to run the full gamut of anything from one youngster on a school bus telling another he hopes Obama gets assassinated to displays of nooses with black people hung in effigy to racial slurs painted on people's houses and cars. One article I read noted that: "Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students, and second-graders." Certainly no thinking person defends this sort of thing. It should be spoken against. But, before we get programmed by the media into thinking that all white folks are automatically hate-mongers, let's step back and take a little more objective look at some of this.
One of the groups hurling the racism charge around is the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This group claims to monitor hate crimes and labels every political group to the right of Fidel Castro as a hate group. There is seldom any real evidence against most of the groups they target and so they smother you with carefully-worded allegations about those groups they really can't prove have anything to do with hate. They seek to parlay small and splintered groups of Klansmen and skinheads into some sort of huge white nationalist conspiracy out to finish off anyone who isn't white. If you took them seriously you would think there were 4000 skinheads on the next street corner just waiting to bushwack the first non-white to come along. This kind of thing isn't much for accuracy, but it sure is great for raising money from scared liberals who should know better but don't.
Anyone using the SPLC as a source for hate crimes allegations seriously destroys their credibility because, in the real world, the SPLC has no real credibility. The so-called veracity of this group is a column for another time and has already been commented on by many over the years.
At any rate, with Obama seemingly destined for the White House, all the anti-white tirades about racism seem to be coming to the fore. But hold onto your seat belts, folks, because all of this "hate crime" stuff is not really what it seems to be.
I just read an AP article, dated November 15th out of New Orleans. It seems that a black man from Mississippi was arrested and accused of sending racist death threats to three black students at a college south of Baton Rouge. This man sent messages containing "racial epithets and death threats" to two black women and one black man at this college. The author of these threats posed as a white man who claimed he intended to kill blacks because Obama was elected president. He went to the trouble of creating a name for his paper-tiger white racist, complete with a profile on the Internet and all. Supposedly, he sent these messages to "get a reaction." What sort of reaction? Did he want the students to whom he sent this inflammatory stuff to "react" in such a way that they blamed white people for this? It turns out he also sent the same type of junk to black students at LSU, the University of Alabama, and the University of Mississippi. If his fondest hope was to create racial discord, it seems to me that this fact, in itself, ought to be considered a hate crime. Trying to make another ethnic group look bad because of your actions could be construed as cultural genocide--something liberals, socialists, and Communists in this country have been practicing on white, especially in the South, for decades now. So is this "random" act all part of that game?
Last year I read of a case in Chicago where a black woman sent phony hate mail to some well-known blacks as part of an attempt to defraud United Parcel Service out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. She was a former law student who claimed that white racists working for UPS had damaged or lost some packages that contained art works. Trying to make her claim of over $140,000 for each supposed loss, she scrawled racist remarks on letters sent via UPS to several well-known black leaders, including Jesse Jackson and the head of the NAACP, as well as eight members of Congress. The judge who heard the case said: "There were so many falsehoods and lies they were like dandelions in the spring grass."
This kind of thing has gotten so prevalent that I started keeping track of fake hate crimes both in this country and others. Black racists are by no means limited to the United States!
As I recollect back, now, I can remember several years ago when we lived in West Virginia, that one day my kids came home and told us that some black youngsters had informed them that, because they were not black they were not human beings. Now where do you suppose those black kids got such drivel? By today's standards that should be labelled a hate crime--shouldn't it? And if so, then who do I sue?
The point is--if these people mentioned above had not been caught doing what they were doing, how many people would think that their actions were all the result of "white racism?" How many more of these "hate crimes" go on that are never detected and the real truth never known? How many whites get blamed for things they never, said, did, or even thought?
Perhaps the entire "hate crimes" industry needs some reasonable and accurate investigation, with people not just buying every story that comes down the pike because a group like the SPLC said it happened.
