Attorney General Holder: Whites Not Protected by Hate Crime Laws

On the night of June 1, 2008, a mob of nearly two dozen black teenagers stormed through the streets of Mount Clemens, Michigan, robbing and beating any white person who crossed their path (see article here).

One white man was talking on a payphone outside a gas station when he was accosted by the mob. He tried to run into the gas station to safety, but the attendant had already locked the door when he saw the mob approaching. As the man desperately pounded on the locked door, he was surrounded by the mob and savagely beaten. Workers would later have to wash the victim's blood from the front of the door.

In an even more violent incident, a car driven by Andy Kaufmann, a 29-year-old white father of three, was surrounded and a brick was thrown through the window. Andy was beaten unconscious and left with a fractured skull. He sustained permanent brain damage and will never be the same. Andy's wife Angelina, who was sitting in the passenger seat on the night of the attack and who watched helplessly as her husband was nearly killed, laments, “I miss the Andy I used to know."

In light of the brutality of the crimes committed that night, the sentences handed down were extremely lenient. The man who threw the brick at Kaufmann's car and instigated the attack, 17-year-old Deonte J. Williams, was sentenced to only 19 months in prison.

In a radio interview shortly after the attack, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel was asked why hate crime charges were not sought, which would have resulted in stiffer penalties. Hackel responded that he didn't consider hate crime laws to be applicable since Kaufmann is white, and therefore not a member of a "protected class." Hackel said, "I don’t know if it [hate-crime legislation] applies to an unprotected class, and I don’t know if whites are part of that. I’m not sure.”

In hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder settled Hackel's question of whether hate crime laws protect whites: they don't.

Holder repeatedly claimed that hate crime laws are designed to protect only groups that were targeted for violence on a "historic basis," such as African-Americans, Hispanics, Jews, and gays. (Holder's testimony can be viewed in its entirety by clicking the 'webcast' link here. He lists the groups he considers to be protected between 73:30 and 74 minutes).

Holder's repeated charge that blacks were "historically" targeted for violence betrays the fact that in modern times they rarely are. In fact, according to the Justice Department's own statistics, in only 10% of the 650,000 violent interracial crimes that occur each year in this country are white offenders attacking black victims.

(The Justice Department statistics can be found in the second to last paragraph of the article "What is a hate crime?" which appeared in the Chicago Tribune. For a more detailed study of race, crime, and justice in America, see the publication The Color of Crime, which is released by the New Century Foundation.)

In 90% of interracial violent crimes, whites are being attacked by blacks. Attacks on white individuals and couples by mobs of black youths are all too common in this country. On this blog, I've recently written about recurring black-on-white mob attacks taking place in Philadelphia and Baltimore.

If any racial group is being targeted for violence in this country, it's whites, by blacks. If any group is deserving of special protection from racially motivated violence, it's whites.


Attorney General Eric Holder testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, June 25. Holder said that hate crime laws are designed to protect only groups such that have been targeted on a "historical basis" such as African-Americans, Hispanics, Jews, and gays.

Teens Use Social Networking Site to Coordinate Attacks

Using an online social networking site to coordinate their actions, a tech-savvy mob of teens terrorized a South Philadelphia neighborhood Saturday night, targeting both people and property. A convenience store was looted, a taxi cab was carjacked and crashed, and several innocent bystanders were attacked (see article here and video here).

One woman, who required hospitalization, was at a stop light when the teens swarmed her vehicle. The teens pulled her by the hair and forced her to the ground, where she was dragged on the pavement.

Witnesses say more than 100 youths took part in Saturday's mayhem. A similar rampage took place the previous weekend, and police say this is a growing problem.

According to ABC-6, police believe the teens are using the social networking site OurSpace to coordinate the attacks. According to their web site, OurSpace "is an online social location that provides African Americans a superior way to connect with others whom share similar experiences and perspectives."

The teens were participated and the mayhem were black, and the woman who was pulled from her vehicle is white, making this an interracial crime. Needless to say, the racial aspect of the violence hasn't been explicitly mentioned in the media. If 100 white teens had used a white-oriented social networking site to coordinate an attack on a black woman, we can be sure the attack would have been labeled a "hate crime" and the story would have been national news.




A mob of 100 black teenagers terrorized a South Philly neighborhood on Saturday night, attacking people and property. The teens used OurSpace, a black-oriented social networking site, to coordinate their actions.

More Racially Motivated Attacks Reported in Baltimore

The Baltimore Sun reports that an increasing number of Baltimore residents and tourists have been victims of random, unprovoked attacks in the downtown area over the past month by roving groups of young people.

The victims report being attacked from behind while they walk, punched and kicked in the head and upper body by groups of males and females. Items are rarely taken, so police don't believe robbery is a motive.

In one of the attacks, a man was repeatedly kicked in the head while a knife was held to his girlfriend's face. Marisa Parish, 29, watched helplessly as her boyfriend, George Williams, 35, had his head kicked back and forth like a soccer ball. After one of the attackers told her boyfriend "You're dead," Parish broke free and tried desperately to protect her boyfriend's head. Parish was knocked unconscious, but she did save her Williams' life.

The attacked couple was white, and all of their attackers were black. The victims believe race was a factor in their assault. One of the black attackers accused the man of shouting a racial epithet; the couple denies this.

According to the article, the attack on Williams and Parish was only one of the 12 assaults that occurred that night in Baltimore. Although the article doesn't mention the races of the suspects and victims of the other 11 attacks, we can safely guess that most of the attacks were black-on-white. There have been a number of gruesome black-on-white attacks in Baltimore in recent years.

• In December 2007, Sarah Kreager, a 26-year-old white woman, suffered broken facial bones after she was punched, kicked and dragged off a bus in Baltimore by a group of black youths. The group also attacked Kreager's boyfriend and menaced an elderly white passenger. Kreager's beating was so vicious that two seats and the bus’s rear glass were destroyed during the attack. The Maryland Transit Authority initially said it was investigating the attack as a hate crime, but no hate crimes charges were ever filed.

As in the recent beating of Williams and Parish, Kreager's attackers tried to blame the victim by claiming she had used the word "nigger." This tactic is commonly used to try to deflect blame onto white victims. For example, Mychal Bell, the 4-time convicted jevenile felon who was one of the Jena 6, claimed the white student he knocked unconscious had used the word "nigger;" dozens of other witness statements, by white and black students, disputed this allegation.

• Less than a week after the attack on Kreager, two white men were beaten by a group of black youths on another Baltimore bus. One of the victims, Patrick Green, was adamant that he had been the victim of a hate crime. "It was a hate crime against me because I was white. I did not know these gentlemen. The whole time during the beating it was, 'white this, white that.' They didn't want anything from me except to see me beaten."

Following this second bus attack, Baltimore mayor Sheila Dixon (who is under indictment) publicly refuted Green's allegations, declaring that the motives for the attacks were "not race based." In response, Green asked the Maryland Transit Authority officials to release surveillance video of the attack, saying it would prove the beating was a hate crime. The MTA refused Green's request.

Instead, the MTA introduced a program to monetarily reward black students who pledged to refrain from attacking white people while riding the bus. Discount cards good at local businesses were handed out at the African American Heritage Festival to students who pledged good behavior.

The victims of the bus attacks were lucky in that they lived to tell what happened to them. Other white victims haven't had the opportunity to tell their story.

• In April of 2006, Jennifer Morelock and Jason Woycio were fatally shot in Baltimore. A 17-year-old black youth was caught with a cell phone that had the sent text message “I killed 2 white people around my way 2day & 1 of them was a woman.”
  

What seemed like a slam-dunk, open-and-shut murder case went south when the Baltimore state’s attorney’s office cut the teen loose because the arresting officer had only a consent search to look at the cell phone’s contents, not a warrant. The murderer walked.

When whites accused of harming non-whites are acquitted, either by an "all-white jury" or on a legal technicality, politicians and black activists step forward to demand the white suspects face federal "civil rights" charges. When non-whites avoid prison after killing whites, as in the Morelock and Woycio murders, demands for civil rights charges aren't made and the cases are quietly dropped altogether.

• In November 2008, Aysha Ring, a 24-year-old white woman, was waiting in line at a liquor store when David Aaron Briggs, a 23-year-old black man, walked up behind her and slit her throat. Ring was taken to Shock Trauma, where she died. Briggs didn't say or take anything during the stabbing.

Hate crimes are defined as crimes in which the offender's criminal act is motivated, in whole or part, by his/her bias. FBI guidelines list a number of factors that, when combined, are support for a finding of a hate crime. Several of these factors were at play in one or more of the incidents described in this article:

1. The offender and the victim were of different race

All of the assaults described in this article involve black offenders and white victims.

2. Bias-related oral comments, written statements, or gestures were made by the offender which indicated his/her bias.

Racially-abusive language was during many of the attacks.

5. The victim is a member of a racial ... group ... who is overwhelmingly outnumbered by members of another group

Baltimore is 65% black and 30% white. The 2 bus beatings and the recent beatings in the Inner Harbor area all involve large groups of young black boys and girls attacking one or two white individuals.

6. The victim was visiting a neighborhood where previous hate crimes have been committed against other members of his/her race ... and where tensions remain high against his/her group.

40 Baltimore police officers are assigned each night to patrol the waterfront, but they seem powerless to stop the rash of recent attacks.

7. Several incidents have occurred in the same locality, at or about the same time, and the victim(s) were all of the same racial group.

In December 2007, two black-on-white beatings occurred within a week of each other on MTA buses. Recently, there has been a rash of black-on-white beatings in the Inner Harbor area.

Most of the crimes described in this article appear to meet the definition of a hate crime, yet none of them have been prosecuted as such. The black-on-white attacks will continue, and there will be more victims like Sarah Kreager, George Williams, and Marisa Parish, until white people in Baltimore stand up and take action to protect themselves.


Sarah Kreager suffered broken bones in her left eye socket after 9 black youths attacked her on a Baltimore bus in 2007. There have been a number of vicious black-on-white crimes in Baltimore in recent years, but none of them have been prosecuted as hate crimes.