The Hate Crimes Industry

by Al Benson Jr.

According to some sources, since the election is now over and Barack Obama will supposedly be the next president of the United States (provided he gets his birth certificate problems resolved) there  has been a sharp rise in what are loosely termed "hate crimes."

These "hate crimes" seem to run the full gamut of anything from one youngster on a school bus telling another he hopes Obama gets assassinated to displays of nooses with black people hung in effigy to racial slurs spraypainted on people's houses and automobiles. One article I noted said: "Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students, and second-graders." Wonder how many years the second graders will get if convicted. Certainly no thinking person defends this sort of activity, but, before we get programmed into thinking that all white folks are automatically hate-mongers let's take a step back and look at some of this. Who is doing the accusing?

One of the groups hurling this racism charge around is the Southern Poverty Law Center. This leftist group claims to monitor hate crimes and calls every political group to the right of Fidel Castro a hate group. There is seldom much real evidence against the majority of the groups they target so they smother you with carefully-worded allegations about these groups.  They seek to parlay the small and splintered groups of Klansmen and skinheads around the country into some sort of huge white nationalist conspiracy that is out to do in anyone who is not white. And to accomplish that they end up smearing a lot of groups that  have nothing whatever to do with hate. And besides, if they can scare enough people with this propaganda it helps to keep the coffers filled by people who actually think the SPLC is out there combatting hate. Anyone using the SPLC as a source for their hate crimes allegations seriously destroys their credibility because, in the real world, the SPLC has no credibility.  But that's a story for another time.

At any rate, now that Obama seems destined for the White House, all the anti-white tirades about "racism" are suddenly coming to the fore at once. But hold onto your seatbelts, folks, because much of this hate crime stuff is not really what it seems to be.

I just read an article, dated November 15th out of New Orleans. It seems that a black man from Mississippi was arrested and accused of sending racist death threats to three black students at a college south of Baton Rouge.  This man sent messages containing "racial epithets and death threats" to two black women and one black man at this particular college. The author of these threats posed as a white man who claimed he intended to kill blacks because Obama was elected president. Somehow, he got caught, and, when confronted, he admitted also to sending similar messages to students at LSU, the University of Alabama, and the University of Mississippi. He created a name and an Internet profile for his paper-tiger white racist to make it all seem authentic. Supposedly, he sent these vile messages to "get a reaction." What sort of reaction? Did he want the students to whom he sent this inflammatory stuff to react in such a way that they blamed white racism for the messages? Was it intended to make white people look bad? It seems to me that, if this was his fond hope, that fact in itself ought to be a hate crime. Trying to make people of another ethnic group look bad because of your actions could be contrued as cultural genocide--something liberals, socialists, and Communists in this country have been practicing on whites, especially in the South, for decades now. So I  have to ask, is his "random" act all part of this game?

Late last year I read of a case in Chicago where a black woman sent phony hate mail to some well-known blacks as part of an attempt to defraud United Parcel Service out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. She was a former law student who claimed that white racists working for UPS had damaged or lost some packages containing art works. Trying to make her claim of over $140,000 for each loss, she scrawled racist remarks on letters sent to several well-known black leaders, including Jesse Jackson and the head of the NAACP, as well as eight members of Congress. The judge who heard the case observed that: "There were so many falsehoods and lies they were like dandelions in the spring grass."

This sort of thing has become so common now that I started keeping track of these fake hate crimes, both in this country and in others. Black racists are not limited to the United States. They spread their venom anyplace they can.

The point is--if these people mentioned above had not been caught doing what they were doing, how many people would think their activities were the result of "white racism?" How many more of such "hate crimes" have gone undiscovered, and how many white people get blamed for things they never said, did, or even thought? Perhaps the entire "hate crime" industry needs some real investigation, so that people are not just taught to buy every story in this area because the media or some group like the SPLC says it happened.

Maybe, in our present climate, this is worth another article.