Fast Eddie Friday..... Hate Crimes in black and white..........

By now most of you locals are aware of the woman who ran over another woman  after words were exchanged in an Indy Ave grocery store. A mixed couple, one white, one black vs. another woman in the store aisle. Words were exchanged, who knows why. Around 30 minutes after the spat, the couple leaves the store. The other woman runs over the female. One is white, one is black. The driver of the vehicle according to the husband of the victim made at least two racial comments. " That's why I hate blank people".  I'm being a little vague and ambiguous here, but stick with me, we'll get there.  If the woman who was driving the lethal weapon, in this case a P T Cruiser, was white, having made a racially tinged comment prior to running over the other lady, who let's say was black, is there any doubt that this case would already be turned over to the Feds to be prosecuted as a hate crime? As it should have been.  Well as of this writing, it has not been picked up by the feds.  Probably won't be either.


As most of you already know the woman who was turned in to a human speed bump was a white woman, her husband is black, her alleged assailant is black. According to the husband the woman made 2 references about hating white bitches, waited in the parking lot for 30 minutes, then ran the other woman down with her car. They were able to track the driver down  because she used her EBT card in the store.  Most of you are probably thinking this sounds like a hate crime.  Pretty cut and dried. Right?  I mean, if you say "I hate white bitches" then run over a white woman, one would figure that statement and the criminal act that follows constitutes a hate crime. I thought so until I saw the following report on Fox 4. The family of the accused straightened this shit out for me. 

See, nothing to be alarmed over. The woman behind the wheel of the PT Cruiser was going to be a social worker. A wonderful woman, with a slight anger control issue.

Let's cut through the horse shit here, if this situation were reversed and the perp was white, the vic black, the hate crime guantlet would have been laid down before the engine of that PT Cruiser was cooled off. Rightfully so, in my not remotely humble opinion.  The usual suspects on our local interwebs would have been writing in giant cap letters.  You can't have it both ways. When the  scumbags in Texas dragged a black man behind their truck, when the knuckle draggers in Wyoming hung the young gay man from a fence, those were hate crimes. Only an idiot would believe otherwise.  So someone explain to me how this case is any different as far as the main motivator being  racial hatred. The only difference is the victim in this case was white. If you downplay the racial aspect of one crime over another, you taint all instances of racially motivated crimes. So this isn't a case of white folks trying to extract a pound of flesh as payback.

On a more positive note, bondsman don't accept EBT cards so unless she can raise 100 grand our budding social worker and hater of white bitches is off the road.