What about the Hispanic-on-white and Hispanic-on-black hate crimes? The federal government does not report them! While the FBI’s hate crime reporting sheet includes Hispancs as a victim group, they do not include Hispanics as offenders, and categorize virtually all of them as white.
Two recent strings of racial attacks—one black on white in Des Moines Iowa, the other black on Hispanic in Staten Island, New York—elicited very different reactions from both law enforcement and the mainstream media.
Since April, Staten Island law enforcement filed 11 “bias related” crimes committed against Mexicans, 10 of which were perpetrated by blacks. The Los Angeles Times gave an example on August 18 where, “a Mexican teen-ager was robbed by a young black man armed with a knife who used racial slurs.”
The real culprit to the liberals in New York are not the thugs who committed the crime, but conservative opponents of illegal immigration. The Times continues,
Jacob Massaquoi, a leader in Staten Island’s African immigrant community, said tensions had grown along with anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, something they blame on Arizona’s crackdown on undocumented residents and conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. “Their rhetoric is very personal, very inflammatory,” Massaquoi said.
Massaquoi is just echoing Barack Obama who said in 2008 that “A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia. There’s a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year. If you have people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up, it’s not surprising that would happen.” Obama’s numbers, by the way, are fabricated. In fact, the rate of hate crimes against Hispanics went down between 2007 and 2008.
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