“mochoh: I’m not convinced of that. I think there is something qualitatively worse about a racial crime.”
Except that not every time a white guy attacks a black guy is it racially motivated. If anything, the constant indiscriminate labeling of every instance of white vs minority as racially motivated makes sure that the racist overtones will never fade precisely because for it to fade would require that whites vs whites and whites vs blacks be the same, this transformation however is prevented by the stupid unyielding assumption that all instances are race related. This further promotes that psychologically white perpetrators will more likely view it as a racist crime bec society loudly proclaims it to be so, and society has a profound subconcsious impact on all who are exposed to it. Furthermore, much of the racist steriotyping of minorities as thugs etc is spawned by the justified perception and reputation as being thugs – every day another person or perople are killed in gang violence, etc, things like the incidents referenced by granderson in his article – if you crack down and curtail the minority perpetrated crime, then their reputation will be hopefully a little less thuggish.