Tom Lehman wrote:
> Hasn't the 14th Amendment been used 95% of the time to protect corporate rights
> and 5% of the time to protect the rights of Black people? I read somewhere that
> after the adoption of the 14th amendment it was only used 6 times by the Supreme
> Court in the first 60 years of its existence to protect the civil rights of
> Black people.
>
> Tom Lehman
>
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > [from Sam Smith's Progressive Review]
> >
> > LIBERTARIAN PARTY: Early this month, an 18-year-old black man went on a
> > bloody crime spree, attacking two elderly white men and bludgeoning an
> > 82-year-old woman to death. The suspect, Obie Weathers, was arrested on
> > February 15, and reportedly told police, "I hate all white people."
> > Prosecutors are now investigating the case as a possible hate crime, which
> > puts Obie Weathers in a fast-growing category of criminals:
> > African-Americans who face extra-long prison sentences because they violated
> > state or federal laws that punish "racist" thoughts. While such laws were
> > touted as a way to protect minorities against violent white racists, the
> > actual result has been the exact opposite: Blacks are twice as likely as
> > whites to be charged with a "hate crime." According to data from a National
> > Crime Victimization Survey, published by the US Department of Justice, only
> > 2,336 whites were charged with anti-black "hate" crimes in 1997, while 718
> > blacks were charged with anti-white crimes. Adjusting for the fact that
> > blacks make up just 13% of the population, they were statistically twice as
> > likely as whites to face prosecution for hate crimes.
> >
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