Hate Crime or Love Crime

Today, I watched a horrible video of a woman being brutally beaten in a MacDonalds Restaurant by two women. It seemed that no one was willing to keep her from being battered by these two female animals. Earlier that day, I heard a local district attorney on a radio talk show bragging about how he’d just sent some men to jail for beating a black man as a racial hate crime because the men offenders were white and the victim black. He went on to explain that the men were charged with a hate crime because the offenders blurted racial slurs as they beat the man.

As I watched the video, I noticed that two black women were beating a white woman. Then I began to wonder if this too was a hate crime?

When will we understand that we are ultimately part of the human race in spite of the hue of our pigment? I do not believe there should be such as thing as a hate crime because there is no such thing as a love crime! People should be punished for crimes against fellow humans regardless of the color of their skin. Or, to paraphrase the words of an old song, “will this madness ever cease, are we men or are we beasts?”

You decide!