Yeah. I feel bad for your ****ty education for you to think the voting law was Jim Crow.
LOL so stupid
You literally could go ask them cause some are still alive
ah, poor baby
what if i told you i was home schooled? lol
Enrique Tarrio, a leader of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys, pleaded guilty Monday to burning a Black Lives Matter banner stolen Dec. 12 from a historic African American church in Washington during a tumultuous demonstration by supporters of President Donald Trump.
Tarrio, 37, who is listed as a Miami resident in D.C. Superior Court records, also pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to possess a high capacity ammunition magazine, which is illegal in the district.
Police said four Washington, D.C., churches were vandalized the night of Dec. 12 as the Proud Boys and other groups marched through downtown, supporting Trump’s effort to delegitimize President Biden’s election victory. The BLM banner that Tarrio admitted to burning was taken from Asbury United Methodist Church in the 900 block of 11th Street NW.
After the incident, but before he was arrested, Tarrio told The Washington Post that if he were charged with a crime, he would be willing to plead guilty to destruction of property and pay the church the cost of the banner.
But he said the banner-burning was not a hate crime and that he was not motivated by ideology. He said he acted because he thinks the Black Lives Matter movement “has terrorized the citizens of this country.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...fbcd6a-e8aa-11eb-97a0-a09d10181e36_story.html
He absolutely should be punished for the destruction of property. However, I agree with him that it shouldn't be a hate crime.
Hate crime laws are often problematic in that they end up essentially punishing someone more severely because of speech or a belief. If you beat someone up on the street while shouting that they shouldn't be wearing stripes and plaid you'll be charged with assault and battery. If you beat someone up on the street while shouting homophobic slurs at them, you'll be charged with a hate crime. Your actions were the same, the only difference is the content of your speech and that's a problem for me.
Personally I think hate crimes should be limited to those situations where there was an attempt to intimidate a group or community. The intimidation would be a secondary criminal act and not simply punishing the original crime more severely because of speech or belief.
You paint a swastika on your minority neighbor's house, that's a crime but I don't think it should be a hate crime. You go around leaving nooses in the yards of minority families, that's attempting to intimidate an entire group which should be a hate crime.
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In all seriousness, at my first job after coming down from the mountains, I managed at a place in Southeast Atlanta that was >95% black and absolutely buried in poverty. I was treated incredibly well by nearly everyone, despite having to stop and occasionally tackle shoplifters, and discipline and sometimes fire employees. Old ladies were bringing me food, a couple young guys helped me move, another pulled me out of a dangerously bad situation before it got worse.
Seeing that video and others like it are a clear testament to just how far backwards race relations have gone in the past 15 or 20 years, and I suspect most of it happened in the last few of those.